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iPerceptions. Scraping for Dummies with Outwit (a Marketer’s Best Friend) Scraping for Dummies with Outwit (a Marketer’s Best Friend) Pulling data sucks.

Scraping for Dummies with Outwit (a Marketer’s Best Friend)

It’s mind-numbing. Outwit is a fantastic tool that’s saved me hours of manually pulling data and helped build links, create assets, identify architecture issues and so much more. Outwit is meant for non-programmers. It is great for: - harvesting infographic data that might not be easily accessible - pulling prices from websites in bulk - pulling Google Suggest for scalable keyword research - extracting data from xml (think outputs from APIs) - creating content your clients don’t have the time or resources to make - so much more I’ve used it on: - Directories - Site Architecture - Alchemy API - Yelp - Google Suggest, Shopping, Images - Amazon Recently, I used Outwit to find sold out products on a client website which would have taken me hours, but ended up taking me only 30 mins with Outwit. Here is a map of newspapers in Pennsylvania I harvested from a directory using Outwit: Let’s create an asset with Outwit 1. 2.

Screaming Frog SEO Spider Tool & Crawler Software. About The Tool The Screaming Frog SEO Spider is a fast and advanced SEO site audit tool. It can be used to crawl both small and very large websites, where manually checking every page would be extremely labour intensive, and where you can easily miss a redirect, meta refresh or duplicate page issue. You can view, analyse and filter the crawl data as it’s gathered and updated continuously in the program’s user interface.

The SEO Spider allows you to export key onsite SEO elements (URL, page title, meta description, headings etc) to a spread sheet, so it can easily be used as a base for SEO recommendations. Check our out demo video above. Crawl 500 URLs For Free The ‘lite’ version of the tool is free to download and use. For just £149 per year you can purchase a licence, which removes the 500 URL crawl limit, allows you to save crawls, and opens up the spider’s configuration options and advanced features. FAQ & User Guide Updates. Image SEO Tool. Tools. Nobody Likes a Slow Website We built this Website Speed Test to help you analyze the load speed of your websites and learn how to make them faster.

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It lets you identify what about a web page is fast, slow, too big, what best practices you’re not following, and so on. We have tried to make it useful both to experts and novices alike. In short, we wanted it to be a easy-to-use tool to help webmasters and web developers everywhere optimize the performance of their websites.

Feature Overview. Author Crawler Tool. Initial Setup This tool is written in PHP, so that it could be modified to run via a web browser (for anyone who is up to the challenge), but is currently designed for the command line.

Author Crawler Tool

I've tested it on Mac OS X and Windows, it should also run fine on Linux. There are two versions of the tool, one for running a report for a single URL, to get the authored back links, and a second to look at multiple URLs and get the author intersect. Both versions need API keys for the SEOmoz API (its free!) And a Google API key (its free!). 11 Technical SEO Tools you Should be Using. 11 Technical SEO Tools you Should be Using As an SEO, I use a wide range of tools to help me with my job.

11 Technical SEO Tools you Should be Using

There are loads of tools out there and being honest, I often forget about some of the ones I have available to me. Today I wanted to show you the contents of my bookmarks when it comes to technical SEO. I’ll talk about the tool itself and highlight some SEO tasks that it can help with. I will be talking about XML Sitemap Validator, Bulk HTTP header response checker, W3C Internationalization Checker, Web Page Speed Test, SEO Toolkit for IIS, Built With, Schema Creator, Reverse IP lookup, Spy on Web, Check Websites on same IP C Class and Screaming Frog. 1.

What it does: Checks your XML sitemaps for broken URLs. Why this matters: Having broken links in your XML sitemap can cause the search engines to lose trust. Where: 2. What it does: Allows you to check the HTTP header codes of a bunch of URLs at the same time. Where: 3. Where: 4. Where: 5. Where: 6. Where: 7. Where: 8. 40+ SEO Tools of the Trade. The ongoing SEO responsibility of attaining and retaining a productive organic search engine presence requires patience, tenacity, and a focus on every detail that might have an impact.

40+ SEO Tools of the Trade

Moderated by Thom Craver (@thomcraver), Web and Database Specialist, Saunders College (RIT), The Tools of the Trade for SEO panel at SES New York 2012 pulled together more than 40 tools in this whirlwind session. Your Comprehensive List of SEO Tools Michael King (@iPullRank), SEO Manager, Publicis Modem, came up first with his presentation, “Tools for Pulling Rank – Nearly Every Tool You’ll Ever Need – EVER”. Webpages as graphs - an HTML DOM Visualizer Applet.