SEMrush Site Audit Tool
7SHARESFacebookTwitter I’ve recently been using this new Site Audit Tool that SEMrush has launched that is actually quite powerful and I would say that is very comparable to another tool called DeepCrawl. The unfortunate thing about this tool is that it is still in beta mode and this for some reason means that you will be unable to export the site audit reports into Excel or any other format. The fact you can’t export this data is actually quite annoying as I’m having this issue with a client where Screaming Frog won’t for some reason tell me whether my clients website’s external images have alt-text defined, as they are hosted on Amazon’s content delivery network (CDN). I don’t understand why this is an issue for Screaming Frog, and perhaps there’s something I am missing. Update: You can indeed identify alt-text on images hosted on Amazon or any other sort of content delivery network (CDN) via Screaming Frog, this option is just not where you’d expect it to be. I messaged Dan Sharp via Twitter, the founder of Screaming Frog, and he promptly sent me a response linking to the FAQ where it highlights how you can do this. Anyways, before I derail let’s get back to the Site Audit Tool! Here you can see the overview tab: Duplicate Content This would be a great feature, but I’m afraid it’s just not accurate enough. If there were 223 duplicate pages then I’m pretty sure I would have already worked that out without the use of this tool (BrightEdge for example identifies duplicate content issues), but it has reported back quite a few pages that aren’t similar/duplicate at all. However to give this function a little credit it has found some pages that are duplicate, but the majority are not duplicate/similar pages. Duplicate Title SEMrush Site Audit Tool has found titles that have been duplicated due to parameters at the end of the URLs. With this information I can action changes to the robots.txt or via Google Webmaster Tools to block these URLs with parameters. External Links Broken This is quite useful, however, unfortunately has the same problem as what I’ve written in the “Internal Links Broken” section. If the URL that is externally being linked to has a space in there somewhere, SEMrush’s Site Audit Tool seems to cut this off at the space in the file name and count this as a broken link. If you take a look at the screenshot above, there are 103 listed broken links, but only one of those links are actually broken links — making this feature not very useful. Internal Links Broken It gives you...
Exciting New Release By BrightEdge: Data Cube
12SHARESFacebookTwitter The new security enhancement feature that BrightEdge today announced is not as exciting as the new “Data Cube” feature that allows BrightEdge customers to leverage over 100 terabytes of data that BrightEdge processes each week. It’s actually a feature very similar in another platform called SEMRUSH, which I have recently been trialing as I’ve been given a three month trial. Before this, BrightEdge would only give you keyword-level data on competitors you would have to submit to them and this makes the “SEO Performance” tab quite useful, but I see this new feature being even more useful. Now you can enter any website you want via the “Data Cube” tab – similar to how search engines work or a better version of Google’s Keyword Planner. However, it’s far more extensive with options such as “Discover Long Tail Keywords” and “Explore Content Strategies” being two features within this feature being the eye candy. BrightEdge has had access to this sort of data for over 6 years and in a .pdf they recently released to customers stated that “we are giving you direct access!” I’m quite frankly surprised that this feature wasn’t already available as it is something that other platforms such as SEMRUSH have been refining for several years. Either way, I feel that it is a great feature that I welcome and I’ll likely be using. BrightEdge are marketing this as a feature that provides “on-demand research capabilities” and they certainly have the data to back this up. Here’s a small screenshot of the tool in action (via BrightEdge): I really like the fact that you can enter a domain or keyword. For example, if I wanted to leverage BrightEdge for my military website I would simply have to enter “military vehicles” and should hopefully find a full list of keywords that I could then target. Then if I had my military website plugged into BrightEdge I could track these keywords and start creating content around the newly tracked keywords or I could start creating content utilising the “Discover Long Tail Keywords” tab to find the long tail keywords that I should be ranking for. The idea is to identify the keywords that I want to rank for, track them, and then create content around them. And because these keywords are being tracked I can then identify if whatever SEO work I do on my military website, for example, is working or not working. Best feature yet The fact they are now giving us access to this data is going to make the Google Keyword Planner somewhat irrelevant. With this new tool you’ll be able to find keywords that...
Review of SE Ranking – Keyword Rank Tracking
13SHARESFacebookTwitter I came across this fairly new service called SE Ranking, which is a search engine keyword rank tracking tool and thought that I’d use and review the service. I’ve signed up for the 14 day trial to get a feel of it and to import a few of the keywords that my military website is ranking for. So far I like the tool and think that it does its job, even if the interface is extremely simple and straight to the point. The SEO agency I work for uses BrightEdge, and I’ve had to use it quite abrasively — with adding hundreds of keywords and monitoring how clients are ranking in Google. I thought to myself, why not see what the competition are doing and if there is a better alternative? Or if there is a feature that BrightEdge is missing. More so, not everyone can afford the huge monthly price tags that BrightEdge offers, so let’s try and find an affordable alternative that the average Joe can use. So as I said, SE Ranking, is a no frills keyword rank tracking tool. I actually came across this tool on Digital Point in a thread where the tool is being promoted. There is a discount code that will give you 15% off of this product, but you’ll have to be quick as it expires on the 7th of January, 2014. Furthermore, you’ll be able to see the cost breakdowns, here: I’m currently on the 50 keywords, 5 websites, and 5 search engines package. This works well for me as I really only need to track up to 20 keywords for every website I own. I suspect for other websites that are a little larger than mine that the “Premium” package would be far more suitable. But for $9 per month this is by far the cheapest keyword tracking tool that I’ve come across. What I like best about SE Ranking What I like about this keyword tracking tool is the fact that it updates keyword rankings on a daily basis, and it gives you this data in a very straight forward way. I’ve only been using this tool for two days and found out that my site went up in rankings when I exposed certain articles to the homepage of my site. Take a look: It’s this sort of data that’s given to you in this format that makes it easy to see the results of any changes you make, whether off-site or on-site. Another interesting fact is that I actually rank higher in Google UK than in Google USA, and didn’t see any movement, as I rank third for...
New Nexus 4 Review
5SHARESFacebookTwitter I thought I’d do a review of the Nexus 4 considering it’s a purchase I recently made. It’s not actually the phone that I intended to get, but hey, here we are and now I have a Nexus 4. I originally intended to purchase a HTC One, but that didn’t go exactly as planned. Let’s just say, I got scammed on GumTree and that’s that. Back to the Nexus 4. It’s a phone that is manufactured by LG and was a phone sold by Google. Google still have a product page up for this phone, but if you attempt to purchase from the Google Play store, you’ll find that all the Nexus 4 smartphones are sold out. This is a shame considering Google lowered the price of their 8GB model to just £159 (a steal) and their 16GB model to £199. I, unfortunately, had to purchase the phone through eBay and bought an 8GB model for £185. It’s still a cheap price, considering the fact that this phone is brilliant and you won’t get another phone like this for a comparable price. Specification 4.7″ diagonal (Display) 1280 x 768 pixel resolution (320 ppi) WXGA IPS Corning® Gorilla® Glass 2 Weight: 139g 2100 mAH battery (15.30 hours talk time; 16.2 days stand-by time) Camera Front: 1.3 MP Back (Main): 8MP (with flash) Wireless charging Android 4.2 (Jelly Bean) 2GB of RAM; Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 Pro APQ8064 (Quad core, 1500 MHz) Variants: 8GB or 16GB (storage) Design With a 4.7 inch display and rounded edges to give the phone a modern look – this phone is certainly something to marvel – especially taking into account the price of the phone. Perhaps it just me being biased, as I haven’t purchased a phone in the past 2 years, but this phone is simply beautiful in my eyes. The smartphone has a rich feeling of cold glass encompassing the back with edges that are rubbery, which helps with gripping onto the smartphone. Pictures I’ve taken with the Nexus 4 These are pictures that I’ve taken to hopefully give an idea to those reading this article a feel of what the camera is like on a Nexus 4. In my honest opinion, I think it’s pretty damn good for an 8MP camera. Obviously, if you compare it to say a DLSR or a dedicated digital camera then those cameras are always going to win. However, if you are aiming for that type of quality, then I suggest purchasing a HTC One. Take Aways It’s seriously a great phone that will likely last me another 2 years before I have to upgrade. The price of the phone is...
Review of Stable Host
7SHARESFacebookTwitter I haven’t done a review of a hosting company in a while now and I remember when I used to use dedicated servers and VPSs that I used to do periodical reviews of them to ensure that they’d keep their quality. Ever since becoming a shared hosted user, I’ve never really done a review for shared hosts as I didn’t consider them that important. That is, of course, far from the truth. However, I’ve got to give my current host credit as they have recently, or especially this year have been very good. Last year, however, I had a few bad experiences and I very nearly switched web hosts. Those bad experiences included my entire web directory being exposed for a brief period on an aggregate directory. I was, however, compensated for that and I actually haven’t had to pay any hosting bills, for the past 5 months, as they credited my account with $50; my web hosting monthly bill is only $3.95. – I still have 3 months of free web hosting left. While the host has not been perfect, they haven’t done anything else to make me switch to another web host. However, I still am thinking very hard of switching hosts due to other reasons. In 2012, however, I faced serious problems with things being slow and I asked if I could be moved to another server. They did this and I saw improvements. But, as I’m writing this now, I’m getting really bad loading times on my websites. It has made me want to move hosts and I’m still thinking about moving. I’d like to add that for the first 3-4 months or the majority of 2013, things have been running smoothly. I haven’t really had any problems. However, I can’t always monitor my site and at times I do get rather annoyed with how slowly my sites are loading. Whether it’s a user on the same server using a lot of CPU or their servers not being up scratch; well, I don’t know. While their servers speeds have been an issue, their support is superb. I’ve been with Stable Host since December 2nd, 2011 and I whenever I’ve needed to contact them, I haven’t been left stranded and they do reply. After checking my support tickets, they seem to respond within the hour, which is pretty decent for a shared host. I remember the last host that I left in-place for Stable Host responded within 1-3 hours. I’m quite content and happy with their response times; however, this year, I haven’t really had to contact them all too much as their service, for the most part, has been going...
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