OnCrawl: A review I have used both Screaming Frog and Deep Crawl to crawl websites, both of which I have covered many times. However, this time I thought I would see what OnCrawl has to offer. OnCrawl is more similar to DeepCrawl than Screaming Frog. It’s a web based platform so doesn’t use your machines …
This short video explains how to remove the readme.html file from WordPress. In the text below, I go into more detail about why you should remove the file. The main reason is that it’s one of the easiest ways for hacker bots to determine whether you’re a WordPress site. Once they’ve discovered you’re a WordPress …
When Bing and then Google first released the disavow file feature it was a great, very powerful tool. It meant that if you asked a Webmaster to take down a link and they refused, you could tell the search engines that the link was bad and you didn’t want it to appear. For a while, …
So. You’ve decided to create a website. Congratulations! Whether it’s building one yourself, or getting a professional or friend to do it for you, that’s great. Now comes the tricky part – choosing a domain name. When the Internet was new, choosing a domain name was easy. There were lots of options and almost everything …
This article isn’t about SEO as such. If you want to know what to check before buying a domain name from an SEO point of view, then check out my previous article here. This article is about branding and in particular, how your customers will view your domain name. If you were building a website …
Your just about to buy your dream domain name STOP!!! Read More »
Hi, my name is Andrew Halliday. In this short video, I’ll be showing you how to add a robots.txt file using cPanel. This is especially useful for anyone with a WordPress site, but it applies to any type of site you’re managing. If you have 2 minutes and access to cPanel, you can add a …
With all the recent hacks and data breaches of high profile sites, TalkTalk, Ashley Madison, Carphone Warehouse for example, we decided to take a look at how easy it would be to make a few changes to your wordpress sites. Firstly, the security of your site is important to your SEO efforts. I am speaking …
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You’ll hear me say this a lot. Yes. Having great content is amazing. It helps earn you links, which is important, but I’m currently learning just how important those links are. One of the sites I manage has virtually zero links compared to its competitors. So, I get that it’s important. However, without great foundations, …
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As the original post was over 2 years old, I thought it was time to update this article as so much has changed in the meantime. You will now see the latest info on both the products Which is best? Deep Crawl or Screaming Frog? I’ve used both pieces of software and I love them both, …
If you need to get a developer to get you the server log data, you need to make sure they are getting you the following bits of information: Host: Date: Page/Title: Bandwidth: Response Codes: Referral: User Agent: This is the bare minimum needed to do any type of log Analysis. An example of what the …
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