There are countless data sources available to today’s search marketers and developers. In this session, Sam from DeepCrawl will explore how to unite and use external and internal data sources for technical SEO optimization while keeping the consumer and ROI top-of-mind.
TechSEO Boost 2017: Your Search Universe: Links, Log Files, GSC, & Everything in Between
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Building Your Search Universe
Links, Log Files, GSC, and Everything in Between
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What are we going to cover?
What the hell is THE Search Universe?
Defining YOUR Search Universe
Getting the bigger picture -
Bringing together different parts of your Search Universe
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What is the Search Universe?
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What is the Search Universe?
The Search Universe encompasses
every URL that could possibly exist…
On every domain…
Regardless of whether the URL has been invoked
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What are the limits of the Search Universe?
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The Search Universe Number
179,769,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,0
00,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,00
0,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000
,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,
000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,0
00,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,00
0,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000
,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,
000,000,000,000,000
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The Search Universe Limits
[scheme]://[domain-name].[TLD]/[path-name]
4-5 chars
max 253 chars
(37 allowed
chars)
max 2083 chars
(74 safe chars)
1002 delegated TLDs
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The Search Universe Formula
Sum[(37^k)* 1002 * Sum[(74^j), {j, 0, 2071-k}], {k, 2, 248}]
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The Search Universe Number
179,769,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,0
00,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,00
0,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000
,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,
000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,0
00,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,00
0,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000
,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,
000,000,000,000,000
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The Search Universe Formula
Sum[(37^k)* 1002 * Sum[(74^j), {j, 0, 2071-k}], {k, 2, 248}]
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The Total Potential Number of URLs
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The Total Potential Number of URLs
784737662469851839238148157424821056960535254243427627032347798165496590186509884497079384545087250131665584732323029020968115044049340
768543077768887062516865578298543159515068147740651321339532877103281797982207062306788002155785858244242703373813166502999634913312928
838087456741086414034991347610789451621292215819421206230373165721570143065828756021435250420465590663912250173143392605384240521094509
0225235406974408247782644232526453597686504890883120620025029541522595784851103947840712521244960821970473309489871806139323628511478109
3048478937100163386870742309944803828198142115597744260799842370049714101533321653987455533474637527682316517735147306547970318482989911
407338722923669510926184000478998360445332499134094165564828770289301898201983043413216064835308108100584808070944855546137628250813070
8715287823006991789011101013014065967376808332969730973111260335109195323647999664691086192644145655664297809157770755494468954508549991
2503488413248949420999093389634411514708494873093137642745334512172794166215863679650206883098883226412412533869285362147086071202117736
490211788264888681452274934359153841488546263138401896337683585389050270080870068418135565720338609662210492382318337339465653803862441
249841096889669616484371004203818240779568891912908101663250492910813569596565948548119083274215815263073536980547590587202256883696429
3750528524111465179017254098375891444809395423322623381562374364064921804515376110901801125644306168029529923017144168645316227165186820
5695281253062063702690940608310049007740262369995145777807519645444722739929804647837095500046983063332876102471983151557113494680741150
705304549419006358172575934724486579166905034524117854803988871731643331832172215688107182454235342897872698976925843330496924879781201
331866454817166340353976506555313050551422879631900661955176009370524056148264570326183431154940364497991840150797755640661393584347567
948259966222242877453704587946060357440794133591539481561352841818910578995726182051279403877796603375577704655607957739037822676397174
1103668658340937787207678595764049472541639850668308214718389338503906551773245613371845840239806767118205800247278697290752189441765248
862274895925673982114883503869030458314473172140554676494756489818840995609703076827798833683149161064523337508268966360801478282219295
4761146383619813567775665914205466620904320412628933491779736067190170866141598196543711333955456271619495898249311653834779554527851162
7142351880721678464572361476663390962861071847525999474193850600711465076544469329807817220619380631187767945863516056151401186321613983
5838339672998526777425133509232797096718499332977023724431397811162858074645188379031737160223429361865851850424753251386653758920715637
986720239086772979960209708861948184281890071182723819202470880426982866185067084325025580477788198921379069735555849106745009300190834
002649919903577917693250242333909124984336882837568845358161718340609339021797414092804662616357542749961727319788252218375967095306189
492593295079531388962447278635681408836605517787830704331729989273264308323581996904655528690142571442849263229665810083897152521941415
635081532824679516159569208167011293103975331302623420352543498604231833236255337260488073591957033032737060848219299552982268131634972
997775653590402337186319344193126688466665414531721424348285089808078879210612359926328926510369021666589635262899634650327427470607242
5912051864572184323895929171020369037079884842508041313605830741852392486897104194949423244475931177116494727605862918047498560295178911
0263542186649287469147910904540226838414377113164665512166232983591485171778953606918455092405846698006559708683018725614163482694711273
607896494524339876891457930635148543343443572578913237452360217337958300907091238202126481680666289211018573484312786272606967133344066
848518380084707242221409750271173333084049965367203904578
7.95636796670821… x 103848
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The Googol Number
10,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,
000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,00
0,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000
10^100
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Defining YOUR Search Universe
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Vast choice of tools
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Are you getting the most out of your data?
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How can you bring different data sources together efficiently?
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Introducing Your Search Universe
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Building Your Search Universe
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I want to tell you a story
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Simple Story about one URL in Search Universe
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Starring:
Me as The URL
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Also Starring…
as the Backlink Source
as the Traffic Source
as the Log Summary Source
as the Consumer Source
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Backlinks to broken pages
404 myurl.com/my-page 1000s of Backlinks!
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Backlinks to a nofollow page
myurl.com/my-page 1000s of Backlinks!
myurl.com/page-1
myurl.com/page-4
Meta Nofollow
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Where do backlinks land on your site?
myurl.com/my-page 1000s of Backlinks!
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Backlinks to non-indexable pages
Disallowed myurl.com/my-page 1000s of Backlinks!
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Duplicate pages with backlinks
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How is crawl budget distributed/utilized?
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Identify where crawl budget is being wasted
Indexable
Pages without
Googlebot
requests
Non-indexable
Pages
with
Googlebot
requests
Indexable
Pages
with
Googlebot
requests
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Optimising crawl budget – Low value pages with requests
myurl.com/my-page
2,000
impressions
Low DeepRank300 page
views
1,000 requests
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Determine most crawled site sections
myurl.com/sitemap_index.xml 2,300 requests
myurl.com/categories 330 requests
myurl.com/products 232 requests
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Now the fun begins…
myurl.com/dress
myurl.com/ dress?colour=red
2,768 Visits
1000s of Backlinks
50 Googlebot
requests
2,423 Clicks
myurl.com/ dress?colour=blue
myurl.com/ dress?colour=green
myurl.com/ dress?colour=green&price=1000+
Meta Canonical
myurl.com/ dress?colour=…&price=…
(…)
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Understand how bots crawl with different user agents
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Understand how bots crawl with different user agents
Responsive Dynamic
Would expect Google to use both
user-agents on the same URL to
validate that the same content is
returned.
Google needs to crawl with both
user agents to validate the mobile
version.
Hint: Use the Vary HTTP header!
Google needs to crawl the dedicated
mobile URLs with a mobile user agent to
validate the pages and confirm the content
matches the desktop pages.
Separate Mobile
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What can Google Search Console add?
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URL story with Google Search Console
myurl.com/my-page
1,000 clicks
Disallowed
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Find poor experience pages with traffic
myurl.com/my-page
5,320 Clicks
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Improve site quality by pruning low quality content
myurl.com/my-page
5,320 Clicks
Indexed!
100 words
88% bounce
rate
Avg time on
page = 18s
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All well and good knowing what Google sees…
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But don’t forget about consumer power
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Google drives awareness
but people drive ROI!
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What do visitors see and convert on?
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A simple URL story with visits
Soft-200 myurl.com/my-page 1000s of Visits!
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Another simple URL story with visits
Blog post myurl.com/my-page 1000s of Visits!
No conversion
points
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An advanced story with visits & backlinks
Disallowed
myurl.com/my-page
2768 Visits!
301 redirection
myurl.com/redirect-page
301 redirection
myurl.com/other-page
No Indexed!
No Backlinks!
1000s of Backlinks!
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Scaling up
1 URL
100k URLs
1M URLs
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Merging Excel Spreadsheets
A googol is larger than the number of elementary particles in the universe, which amount to only 10 to the 80th power.
Largr than number of atoms in universe.
Importance of all sources. Which drives requests, impressions, traffic. Which do people care about? Which should be made indexable? Is crawl budget wasted on variations like pricing page e.g. are they linked?