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How to Supercharge your SEO with Log File Analysis

Sally-R
September 14, 2023

How to Supercharge your SEO with Log File Analysis

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Sally-R

September 14, 2023
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  1. How Log File
    Analysis can
    Supercharge SEO
    Sally Raymer
    SEO IN MOTION
    https://speakerdeck.com/sallyseo
    @salraym

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  2. "Nobody knows
    how to use log file
    analysis properly"
    A guy presenting a SEO platform that had no log
    file analysis.

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  3. A Picture Says
    a Thousand
    Words...
    (or just
    the one)

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  4. Let's Talk Log File
    Analysis
    just incase
    But...

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  5. A Wealth of
    Information

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  6. Where a request is
    being made from

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  7. Who is Making the
    Request

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  8. What is Being
    Requested

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  9. Data we Can
    Use to Inform
    our Teams

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  10. Identifying What Pages
    are Being Crawled by
    Search Engines

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  11. How Quickly Content is Crawled &
    Indexed

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  12. How Frequently 'Priority' Pages are
    Crawled

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  13. PLPS & PDPS

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  14. Service Pages, White Papers &
    Templates

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  15. Guides & Useful Reviews

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  16. Awareness Pages

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  17. Identifying Search
    Engines Crawling
    the 'Wrong' Pages

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  18. 4xx Errors

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  19. Redirects

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  20. Canonicalised URLs

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  21. Pages we Just Don't
    Care About

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  22. Pages that are
    Rarely or Never
    Crawled at All

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  23. Crawl Depth

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  24. Crawl Budget

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  25. Duplication

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  26. Content Quality
    VS.

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  27. Page Speed

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  28. Orphan Pages

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  29. Test & Analyse Index
    and Ranking Factors

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  30. Are PageRank and Crawl Behaviour
    Marrying up?
    Image from SE Ranking

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  31. Trends Between Word Count &
    Crawling

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  32. Changing Meta-Tags & Headers

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  33. Tracking the Impact of Cannibalisation
    Projects

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  34. Implementing SSR
    Image from NextJS

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  35. Updating Schema
    Image from Google

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  36. Gaining Backlinks
    Image from Ahrefs

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  37. Improving Page Performance

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  38. Social Influence/ Popularity

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  39. User Centric Behaviour

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  40. Mobile/ Desktop Ratio

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  41. What Part of the Site Users are
    Visiting

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  42. What Response Times Users
    are Getting

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  43. Fact Finding
    Mission Powered by
    Log Files

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  44. Redirects & 4xx Outside of the
    Site Structure

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  45. Identify Different Response Codes to
    User Agents

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  46. Identify the Why in 5xx Errors

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  47. CDN Error

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  48. Storing Large Files on the Server

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  49. High Traffic

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  50. Separate Users from Bots

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  51. Identify Spam Generated URLs

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  52. THANK YOU
    https://speakerdeck.com/sallyseo
    @salraym

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