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How do you test your site's crawling accessibility for search engines?

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If you want your website to rank well on search engines, you need to make sure that they can crawl and index your pages. Crawling is the process of scanning and following the links on your site, while indexing is the process of storing and organizing the information from your pages. However, sometimes there are factors that can prevent or limit the crawling and indexing of your site, such as technical errors, robots.txt rules, meta tags, or site speed. In this article, you will learn how to test your site's crawling accessibility for search engines and how to fix some common issues that can affect it.

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1 Use Google Search Console

Google Search Console is a free tool that lets you monitor and troubleshoot your site's performance on Google search. One of the features that you can use to test your site's crawling accessibility is the URL Inspection tool. This tool allows you to enter any URL from your site and see how Google sees it, including the crawl status, the index status, the canonical URL, and the mobile usability. You can also request a live test or an indexation of the URL, and see if there are any errors or warnings that need to be resolved. You can use this tool to check individual pages or sections of your site, and identify any issues that might prevent them from being crawled or indexed by Google.

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2 Use a crawler tool

Another way to test your site's crawling accessibility is to use a crawler tool that simulates how a search engine bot would crawl your site. There are many crawler tools available, such as Screaming Frog, Sitebulb, or DeepCrawl, that can help you analyze your site's structure, links, content, and metadata. A crawler tool can help you discover and fix issues such as broken links, duplicate content, missing or incorrect meta tags, redirects, or slow pages. You can also use a crawler tool to generate reports and insights on how to improve your site's SEO and usability.

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3 Check your robots.txt file

Your robots.txt file is a text file that tells search engines which pages or directories of your site they can or cannot crawl. You can use this file to control the access and behavior of search engine bots on your site, such as excluding certain pages from being crawled or indexed, or specifying the crawl delay or the preferred sitemap. However, you need to be careful not to block any important pages or resources that you want search engines to see and rank. You can check your robots.txt file by typing your domain name followed by /robots.txt in your browser, or by using the robots.txt Tester tool in Google Search Console. You can also use a crawler tool to see how your robots.txt file affects the crawling of your site.

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By the way, we have to USE this option very carefully because. Incorrectly configuring the robots.txt file can lead to unintended consequences. If you use overly restrictive rules, you might accidentally block search engines from accessing important parts of your site, including valuable content. It's crucial to ensure that you're not blocking access to critical pages.

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4 Optimize your meta tags

Meta tags are snippets of code that provide information about your pages to search engines and users. Some of the most important meta tags for SEO are the title tag, the meta description, and the robots meta tag. The title tag is the headline of your page that appears on the search results and the browser tab. The meta description is the summary of your page that appears below the title on the search results. The robots meta tag is the instruction that tells search engines whether to crawl or index your page, or to follow or nofollow the links on your page. You can optimize your meta tags by making sure that they are relevant, unique, and accurate for each page, and that they follow the best practices and guidelines of search engines. You can use a crawler tool or the URL Inspection tool to check and edit your meta tags.

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5 Improve your site speed

Your site speed is the time it takes for your pages to load and display on the browser. Site speed is not only important for user experience and engagement, but also for search engine crawling and ranking. Search engines prefer fast-loading sites, and they may crawl fewer pages or rank them lower if they are slow. Site speed can be affected by many factors, such as the size and quality of your images, videos, and scripts, the server response time, the caching, and the compression. You can improve your site speed by using tools such as Google PageSpeed Insights, Lighthouse, or GTmetrix to measure and optimize your site performance. You can also use a crawler tool to see how your site speed impacts the crawling of your site.

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6 Here’s what else to consider

This is a space to share examples, stories, or insights that don’t fit into any of the previous sections. What else would you like to add?

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In my opinion, we should also look for JavaScript rendering because optimizing JavaScript performance can help strike a balance between dynamic content and effective search engine crawling and indexing. -It is a critical aspect of modern web development, but it can present challenges for search engine bots that primarily process HTML content. -Many search engine bots can crawl and index JavaScript-rendered content, but they might not execute complex JavaScript as efficiently as modern browsers. -Bots might not handle certain JavaScript features, like lazy loading, infinite scrolling, or client-side routing, as well as browsers do.

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1 Use Google Search Console

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1 Use Google Search Console

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