We think the IIS Toolkit is absolutely awesome!
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This post will provide a step by step guide on how to install the powerful IIS 7.0 toolkit from Microsoft, and show you some of the many cool features which can open up a whole new world for extracting information from a website (we are talking about a Xenu link sleuth beater here!).
Please note: IIS 7.0 is only compatible with Windows Vista or Windows 7
The program is quite simple to install but it certainly isn’t one of the most obvious, and when you need a helpful guide there isn’t much about, so here’s something to help get you started… Read the full post...
For a little while now I’ve been wrangling with an interesting problem in site architecture diagnostics. Do I have any orphaned pages on my site, and how do I find them?
Frequently, web developers will write code to generate an XML sitemap that will include all URLs in the database, linked to or no. How can we use this fact to our advantage?
I thought I’d share a strategy using Excel to extract all the URLs on your site, comparing them to the raw export from the amazing IIS Toolkit. (PS – word is that Daniel’s writing a “how to” for IIS, including the installation…) Read the full post...
When we look to the future of the internet and how SEO is evolving, what can we expect to find on the agenda in the not so distant future with regards to website mark up?
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Well, no one can truly predict the future but by looking at recent past developments we can certainly find a general trend that we are all starting to follow. In my first post as an seo consultant at SEOGadget I will be looking into the use of HTML 5 and (Richards favourite) Micro Formats. Read the full post...
There’s always been a ton of debate surrounding the value of search engine rankings. While I don’t always value single ranking metrics for certain SEO activities, I value ranking data highly for keyword and competitor research. Aggregate ranking data can also provide a view of the health of your website – something I take quite seriously!
What is search engine visibility?
“Search engine visibility” is a term I associate with a metric, largely because of the ranking checker (Advanced Web Ranking) we use, but also because of a KPI in my last “in-house” role. Before you write off this metric as useless, let’s look at how it may be calculated, why that calculation can be valuable and where it can let us down. Read the full post...
The last week of July was a very painful week for this website. Our previous hosting company was having a world of difficulty through an ongoing Denial of Service attack and, combined with a particularly alarming security breach, it was time to leave. Despite lengthy periods of outage and a slow ftp connection, I managed to migrate the site to a new host and get the DNS sorted by the 30th July 2010.
I thought I’d share some interesting data which should encourage us all to rethink our hosting from time to time.
Average time taken to load SEOgadget.co.uk in seconds (monthly)
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If you’re playing around with SEO based Microformats recommendations for your clients, you might have considered how exactly to test and present those recomendations. What things can you do before sending off an SEO consultation document with Microformats change requests to make you feel confident that your recommendations will work, should Google begin parsing your Microformats in to the search results pages?
The very simple answer is to set up a test page all of your own, and demonstrate the validated test to your target audience. Here’s how: Read the full post...
Almost a month ago, we released the anchor text tool, a simple URL by URL anchor text analyser that plugs in to the Anchor Text Linkscape API.
If I’m honest, the tool was as much a learning device for future tool development as it was an opportunity to give something back to the community. I definitely think there’s a ton of scope for other SEO folks out there to experiment with building their own SEO tools without any formal development skills, and I think that they should!
On that note, let me share some learning and explain how the tool was built. Read the full post...
The past few weeks have been pretty awesome. Regular visitors to the site may have noticed a reduced rate of posting on the site, largely owing to summer holidays, the construction of a new anchor text tool, recruiting our first staff and a HTML5 project.
I’ve written about HTML5 and SEO before, but it’s nice to have your own examples, so I’m delighted to show off the first version of SEOgadget in HTML5 – take a look at the source code! Read the full post...
There hasn’t been as much blogging activity on this site in the past three weeks. For good reason, I’ve been on a (much needed) holiday after a mind blowing first 6 months of the year and, upon my return, I’ve been building a new toy.
You can now analyse your anchor text with the SEOgadget anchor text tool.
Analyse your top 10 anchor texts and image links to a page, domain or subdomain
The public version of the tool is free to use and if you find it useful, please give feedback.
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Features
- See your top 10 anchors to any URL
