Technical SEO Geekery
David Gossage 
I was recently asked if there was a solution to track links which have been built to someone’s site. They wanted to be able to know if links were removed, altered or changed to nofollow. To my surprise, I found that there were a number of paid tools offering this service. It occurred to me … Read more
Pagespeed insights is a popular tool for many SEOs and web developers. Using the Lighthouse tool, its one of the best resources available for identifying and fixing speed issues to improve user experience. However, manually checking each URL via the website is a slow and manual process. Therefore, I have created a script to check … Read more
My latest script is all about using Python to scrape Google Trends rising keywords to generate article ideas. No coding is required and it is built on Google Colab so no extra software is required, making it a simple solution for all SEOs. [do_widget id=custom_html-3] The problem Its important to ensure that your website’s content … Read more
Recently I have been learning a (little) bit of Python in my spare time in the hope that it will help me become better at SEO. And finally, I have created my first script, with the aim of finding internal linking opportunities at a large scale. Interested in learning Python? Try this resource: Automate the … Read more
So Black Friday is nearly amongst us again and, like me, you’ll probably be at work pretending to look busy whilst scoping out the best online deals (just kidding boss, if you’re reading this). Whilst most companies will have spent months planning how to guide you to the deals that they want you to see, … Read more
Keyword research is one of the most important tasks in SEO. Unfortunately, it is also one of the most time consuming. When working with large ecommerce sites, it is often easy to overlook products since we just don’t have time to research them all. However, products are often the most profitable landing pages on an … Read more
Crawling tools, such as Screaming Frog or Deepcrawl, are fantastic ways to analyse large websites. A little while ago, I wrote about some of the custom extraction examples that I had been playing with gather data about ecommerce sites. Since I was still learning at this point, I mainly used Regex examples as I had … Read more