You can run the crawl yourself or set up a regular crawl. Also, you can set the start of a one-time crawl at the time you need, for example, at night. With a regular crawl, you can track changes to your website after releases, the number of new pages created over a while, and more. […]
Using JetOctopus, you can find links to broken pages easily. Start a new crawl or check for broken links in the results of the previous crawl. However, keep in mind that the number of broken links may have changed since the last crawl. Links to broken pages are the links that lead to non-200 pages. […]
Orphan pages are URLs that cannot be found on your website during a crawl. They are not included in the structure of internal linking. As a consequence, users will not be able to find these pages. But search engines can follow the orphan pages from external links, from search index (for example, if the orphan […]
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 […]
Modern websites are very dynamic. They change frequently, URLs are updating, and websites have migrated to new domains. In all these cases, redirects are needed so that users and search engines can find the right URLs. If redirects are missing or not working properly, you may lose conversions and the URLs will drop out of […]
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 […]
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