The easy way to check for duplicate content: duplicated titles and meta descriptions
Unique content is an essential factor in the ranking of your website in search results. If there is a lot of duplicate content, search engines may incorrectly identify the most relevant page or exclude duplicate content URLs from search results. However, the most important thing is that duplications are wasting your crawling budget. A lot […]
How to check XML Sitemaps with JetOctopus
Sitemaps are one of the most important sources of new URLs for search engines. They scan URLs from sitemaps regularly. And if the URLs meet the requirements of search engines, they will be indexed. However, if sitemaps contain broken links, 4xx, 3xx pages, etc., this will negatively affect your crawling budget. Therefore, it is wise […]
How to crawl websites using Cloudflare with the Googlebot user-agent
If you crawl your website with a regular JetOctopus user agent, it will not be blocked by Cloudflare. However, if you want to check how your site is seen by Google bot using crawling, Cloudflare will block unconfirmed Googlebot. We remind you that you can crawl your website with the Googlebot Mobile or Googlebot Desktop […]
How to crawl a staging website with JetOctopus
JetOctopus can crawl staging websites and websites closed from scanning by search engines. You can also run a crawl of a website that needs authentication (password/login). To crawl staging websites, just set up special crawl settings. When you actually need to crawl a staging website How to crawl a staging website blocked by robots.txt If […]
Why are URLs being displayed as non-indexable in crawl results?
Indexability is one of the most important characteristics to pay attention to when analyzing crawling results. We’ve created a separate segment to make work with indexable pages easier. You can use this segment in all JetOctopus reports. Why the page is not displayed in the segment “Indexable” An indexable page has 200 response code and […]
How to analyze Core Web Vitals with JetOctopus
Core Web Vitals is a set of specific features that Google considers important for users. The better your Core Web Vitals, the better your site is at the top in the SERP. Core Web Vitals consist of three main metrics: the largest contentful paint (LCP), first input delay (FID), and cumulative layout shift (CLS). Also, […]
Product Update. GSC by Countries
For large multinational/multilingual websites, it can be difficult to track traffic dynamics in different countries. Monitoring the performance of all countries in total is an ineffective method for SEO. Because the fall in 1% of traffic in the most traffic-generating country will be very noticeable, and in the general chart this fall will be almost […]
How to check hreflang with JetOctopus
Hreflang attributes show search engines that a website has localized versions of pages. For example, you may have English and Ukrainian versions, or separate English language versions for the United Kingdom and the United States. You can use the hreflang attributes in regular HTML, HTTP headers or sitemaps. Most hreflang problems are with the incorrect […]
How to generate a sitemap with JetOctopus and how to submit it to Google
If you find errors in crawl results or logs, you can submit the corrected/updated pages for scanning to search engines. This can be done with a custom sitemap. JetOctopus allows you to generate a custom sitemap in two clicks. In which cases do you need to generate a sitemap? For example, due to a technical […]