Tool for scanning the content of the canonical tag
-
Hey All,
question for you. What is your favorite tool/method for scanning a website for specific tags? Specifically (as my situation dictates now) for canonical tags?
I am looking for a tool that is flexible, hopefully free, and highly customizable (for instance, you can specify the tag to look for). I like the concept of using google docs with the import xml feature but as you can only use 50 of those commands at a time it is very limiting (http://www.distilled.co.uk/blog/seo/how-to-build-agile-seo-tools-using-google-docs/).
I do have a campaign set up using the tools which is great! but I need something that returns a response faster and can get data from more than 10,000 links. Our cms unfortunately puts out some odd canonical tags depending on how a page is rendered and I am trying to catch them quickly before it gets indexed and causes problems. Eventually I would also like to be able to scan for other specific tags, hence the customizable concern. If we have to write a vb script to get it into excel I suppose we can do that.
Cheers,
Josh
-
No idea on that one - it's still pretty new. The developers actually chimed in on the post, so you could ask them in the comments.
-
Thanks Dr. Pete and Marcus.
I just finished reading the post. I have looked at Screaming Frog before but was hoping to be able to find a way to do it myself. Just didn't want to plop money down on something that seemed like it should be able to be done using tools I already had. But the software does look good. Any thought on if they will come out with a one time purchase instead of a yearly subscription?
Cheers!
Josh
-
Hey Dr. Pete, Joshua
I was just coming here to say that I had read the Dr. Pete post and this may do the job. It's a paid bit of a software but I will be picking it up later. I have my guys knocking up a canonical checker that will be free for all but that may take a day or so to get perfect.
Let me know if you have a play with Screaming Frog!
Marcus
-
I'm pretty sure that Screaming Frog SEO Spider will do it, but you need the paid version to custom-filter on the canonical tag. I've got a post going up about it tomorrow.
-
Great, really appreciate it! Many thumbs up
-
Hey Josh,
Right, cool. I have got a few jobs to sort out but I am going to have a bash at knocking this up this afternoon. Should be easy enough (he said, damning himself to hours of problems).
Leave it with me for 24 hours.
Marcus
-
Hey Marcus,
thanks for the quick response. That is exactly what I would be looking for. I do have a list of url's and that is also simple enough to get from something like xenu. Would love to work with you on this.
Thanks.
Josh
-
Hey, I am not aware of any such tool, but it should not be too hard to put one together, maybe a useful little tool as well.
If you have all of your pages in spreadsheet or database, it should be easy enough to write a little script that cycles through them.
Start Loop
-
request page
-
parse code to get canonical URL
-
compare page to canonical
-
output problem URLs
End Loop
Slightly over simplified and requires a list of all your URLs but would be willing to help put something like this together, could be useful for all of us, especially for those (like me) that work with a lot of CMS sites.
Cheers
Marcus
-
Got a burning SEO question?
Subscribe to Moz Pro to gain full access to Q&A, answer questions, and ask your own.
Browse Questions
Explore more categories
-
Moz Tools
Chat with the community about the Moz tools.
-
SEO Tactics
Discuss the SEO process with fellow marketers
-
Community
Discuss industry events, jobs, and news!
-
Digital Marketing
Chat about tactics outside of SEO
-
Research & Trends
Dive into research and trends in the search industry.
-
Support
Connect on product support and feature requests.
Related Questions
-
Backlink Indexing Problem? Suggest any paid or free tool..!
My Forum backlinks and social share backlinks are not indexing plz suggest any free r paid tool that index such backlinks. Otherwise my ranking will drop. Plz help
Moz Pro | | AsifSeotools7770 -
Can we scan for Competitor keywords with Moz Pro?
Hi All, Can we scan for Competitor keywords with Moz Pro? Wanted to know if we can check all keywords a site is ranking for... Thanks
Moz Pro | | jomin740 -
Are there any free (or paid) tools available online that download Meta Tags for ALL URL's of a website?
Hi, I am looking to run an On-Site audit for a website and I'm wondering if there are any tools available online that take the existing Meta Tags on ALL pages of a website and downloads them to a .CSV or .XLS. Would need Meta Title and Meta Description for all pages at the very least. Any suggestions are appreciated - looking for Free or Paid options. Thanks.
Moz Pro | | SEO5Team0 -
Mac Alternatives for Netpeak & SEO Tools For Excel?
Does anybody know of any mac alternatives for Netpeak & SEO tools for excel? I haven't been able to find any. I just need something to pull PA & DA quickly for a list of domains and URLs. Will I just have to create something custom with the Moz API?
Moz Pro | | kking41200 -
Forward slash on URL on Duplicate Content Report
Hi I'm new to this whole Moz thing, so needing help from some kind people! I've just looked at my Duplicate Page Content report and there are loads of URLs in there which are the same but are just differentiated by adding / at the end of the URL, e.g. http://youngepilepsy.org.uk/news-and-events/events http://youngepilepsy.org.uk/news-and-events/events/ Is this be a canonical issue? I can't understand why though as these aren't at the root. However when we add inline text links within the page HTML, there are some URLs with / and some without, could that be the reason? Thanks for your help! Jackie
Moz Pro | | YoungEpilepsy1 -
Inbound Link Tool?
I signed up for SEOMOZ so that I could get a conclusive list of links for my competition. I hope I can get this information with this tool. Can I? And where can I find the tool? P.S. I don't need my own inbound links; I can get these with google webmaster tools.
Moz Pro | | bachdeg0 -
Tools which scan urls for social data
Hi can anyone recommend any tools out there, which can allow me to scan a list of pages (urls) and give me back social data for each page (e.g. number of facebook likes, shares, twitter data, google plus, etc) Cheers, Chris
Moz Pro | | monster990 -
Duplicate content pages
Crawl Diagnostics Summary shows around 15,000 duplicate content errors for one of my projects, It shows the list of pages with how many duplicate pages are there for each page. But i dont have a way of seeing what are the duplicate page URLs for a specific page without clicking on each page link and checking them manually which is gonna take forever to sort. When i export the list as CSV, duplicate_page_content column doest show any data. Can anyone please advice on this please. Thanks <colgroup><col width="1096"></colgroup>
Moz Pro | | nam2
| duplicate_page_content |1