Tools for Documenting and Monitoring Link Structure
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The sites I work with all have increasingly published more and more content. In order to maximize the potential and "link juice" of every post and the site, we are linking the post to other relevant internal posts.
What I want to ask though is if the community here has any tips or recommendations as a way to monitor and track this. The reason being that I don't want to just go in guns blazing and link all over the place. I want to keep and maintain link structure, even on a content level.
For now, I've been using pencil and paper and assigning numbers to keep structure. However, with so many posts and so many links within each post, I'm starting to notice that maybe this is a little impractical. Are there any recommendations?
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Oh man, thank you so much! I'll go ahead and take a read/look at it all. Thanks again man!
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Screaming frog is pretty easy to export to excel or google sheets, as well can connect to google analytics too.
I was going to link a url about connecting but it was 2 years old - if you still want here you go - https://authoritylabs.com/blog/use-screaming-frog-excel/
Watch a few video tutorials and you'll be up and ready in no time, there is a free version but it has a 500 url limit for crawling among other limitations.
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Thanks Jordan! I've heard about Screaming Frog but I'm glad to hear from others recommendations.
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Deacyde,
Thanks for the response. Would you use this in tandem with SEO for Excel? Or is Screaming Frog pretty stand a lone and easily imported to Excel?
Jason Khoo
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I must second Jordan's reply that Screaming Frog is the best you could spend 100 bucks on a year! You can fully crawl any site, and then clicking the internal tab, then dropbox to html, can set these to be displayed in tree view which will as you imagined, display in a hierarchy which makes research 100 times easier.
Plus it's ability to create reports, check for basic but major SEO issues make it one of the most important swiss army knives you can have in your SEO toolbox.
Do yourself a favor and buy the year license, you won't regret it.
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I would recommend using Screaming Frog to crawl your site and pull a report for all your internal links in excel and keep tabs on them. It is fairly easy to use and you get information on the Anchor text, destination page etc.
Hope this helps some.
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