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Site Crawler Guide: Optimize Your Seo Scanning

Master our intelligent site crawler for comprehensive website analysis, technical issue detection, and SEO optimization

Understanding Site Crawling

Our site crawler acts like a search engine spider, systematically exploring your website to identify pages, analyze content, and detect technical SEO issues. It provides comprehensive insights into your site's health and performance.

Complete Coverage

Crawls all pages and content types

Technical Analysis

Identifies SEO and performance issues

Content Insights

Analyzes content quality and optimization

Fast Results

Quick crawling with detailed reports

How Site Crawling Works

1

Start the Crawl

Enter your website URL and configure crawl settings. Choose between quick scans for small sites or comprehensive crawls for larger websites.

Crawl Options:

  • Quick scan (up to 100 pages)
  • Full site crawl (unlimited pages)
  • Custom depth limits
  • Include/exclude patterns
2

Intelligent Discovery

Our crawler systematically explores your site, following internal links and discovering all pages, images, and resources. It respects robots.txt and crawl delays.

What it crawls:
HTML pages
XML sitemaps
Images and media
CSS and JavaScript files
What it analyzes:
Page titles and meta descriptions
Heading structure
Internal/external links
Page load performance
3

Comprehensive Analysis

Each page is analyzed for SEO factors, technical issues, and optimization opportunities. The crawler identifies problems and provides actionable recommendations.

Analysis Categories:

  • On-page SEO optimization
  • Technical SEO issues
  • Content quality assessment
  • Internal linking opportunities
  • Mobile-friendliness checks
4

Generate Reports

Receive detailed reports with prioritized issues, actionable recommendations, and progress tracking. Export results for team collaboration and ongoing monitoring.

Comprehensive reporting
Prioritized issues with clear next steps

Key Benefits of Site Crawling

Complete Site Visibility

Discover all pages on your site, including those not in your sitemap

Technical Issue Detection

Find broken links, duplicate content, and crawlability problems

SEO Health Monitoring

Track your site's SEO health over time with regular crawls

Content Optimization

Identify content gaps and optimization opportunities

Performance Insights

Analyze page speed and user experience factors

Actionable Recommendations

Get specific, prioritized fixes for identified issues

Common Issues Our Crawler Detects

Critical Issues

  • • Broken internal/external links
  • • Pages returning 4xx/5xx errors
  • • Missing or duplicate title tags
  • • Pages blocked by robots.txt

Warning Issues

  • • Slow loading pages
  • • Missing meta descriptions
  • • Non-mobile-friendly pages
  • • Large images without optimization

Optimization Opportunities

  • • Thin or duplicate content
  • • Missing heading structure
  • • Internal linking opportunities
  • • Content gaps to fill

Performance Issues

  • • Uncompressed resources
  • • Render-blocking JavaScript
  • • Missing caching headers
  • • Large page sizes

Best Practices for Site Crawling

Configure Your Crawl Settings

Set appropriate crawl limits and respect your server's capacity.

  • • Use crawl delays to avoid overwhelming your server
  • • Set user agents to identify your crawler
  • • Exclude admin areas and development pages

Schedule Regular Crawls

Crawl your site regularly to monitor changes and catch issues early.

  • • Weekly crawls for active sites
  • • Monthly crawls for stable sites
  • • After major content or technical changes

Prioritize Issues

Focus on high-impact issues that affect crawlability and user experience.

  • • Fix critical errors first (404s, broken links)
  • • Address performance issues affecting Core Web Vitals
  • • Optimize content and metadata for better rankings

Ready to Crawl Your Site?

Start with a quick scan to get familiar with the crawler, then run comprehensive analyses to optimize your site's SEO performance.