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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
Happens when you run a crawl and the website returns a 503 response code. “503 Service Unavailable” response code means that your web server cannot process the request at this time. What are the reasons for the 503 status code? There is good news: the 503 response code is temporary, and as soon as the […]
JetOctopus can find redirect chains on your site. What is a redirect chain? This is a sequence of several redirects. For example, from URL1 to URL2, from URL2 to URL3, and so on. You can find the general information about redirect chains in the “Technical” report. Go to the crawl results and select “Technical” – […]
Before you start a new crawl we recommend preparing basic information about your website. It allows you to set up the optimal configuration of the crawl. Of course, the basic settings of JetOctopus crawl are suitable for most websites, but it is worth delving into the settings to get the most useful information about your […]
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