Crawling SEO guides

Deep technical guides on crawl setup, rendering parity, report analysis, and crawl-led troubleshooting.

Crawling SEO guides overview with live crawl status distribution and depth buckets for example.com
Latest crawl report data used as a live visual overview for crawling guides.
Crawling 11 min
Technical SEO crawler settings that actually matter

A no-fluff guide to user agent, JS rendering, robots rules, headers, and crawl strategy choices.

Crawling 10 min
Crawl report analysis: filters and operators for faster SEO decisions

Turn raw crawl data into action using query operators, segment filters, and practical triage logic.

Crawling 8 min
Mobile vs desktop crawl comparison for SEO: find rendering gaps before Google does

Find parity issues between classic and JS-rendered versions, and between device profiles.

Content & Links 7 min
Outgoing links and top words: two fast audits for SEO hygiene

Use crawl-derived outbound links and top word reports to spot quality and relevance issues quickly.

Indexation 8 min
Sitemap monitoring with daily URL trends by sitemap

Track sitemap history and daily page count changes both site-wide and per individual sitemap file.

Acquisition 7 min
Free online SEO crawler: evaluate your site before you buy

Run a free crawl, understand your baseline issues, then scale into full monitoring when needed.

Crawling 6 min
2-UAcomBot: how we identify ourselves and respect robots.txt

Every page snapshot 2-UA takes with 2-UAcomBot is gated by the target host's robots.txt. Here is exactly how our bot behaves and how to control it.

Crawling 7 min
How to find broken links (4xx and 5xx) on your website without crashing production

Crawl your site, filter 4xx/5xx, export to XLSX, and set up auto-alerts so broken links never reach users again.

Crawling 7 min
How to detect redirect chains and redirect loops that eat your crawl budget

Find every redirect chain longer than one hop, fix loops, and recover crawl budget Googlebot is wasting on 302/301 ping-pong.

Crawling 8 min
How to find orphan pages on your website (pages with zero internal links)

Combine a full crawl with your sitemap and GSC export to surface every page Google knows about but your site does not link to.