Latest posts made by timresnik
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RE: Recommended log file analysis software for OS X?
Hiya ufmedia,
Funny you bring this up, I just spent a few hours pulling my hair out trying to get a log parser to work on my Mac. Ultimately, I went back to my PC and ran Web Log Explorer. I have heard good things about Splunk, but seems too robust for SEO purposes alone. Their free version allows for 500/MB per day. If you are under that, It might be worth giving it a go. Sawmill looks like it could do the trick, but may require a decent amount of setup. Thanks for the tip! I will check it out.
Thanks!
Tim
posted in Technical SEO
Best posts made by timresnik
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RE: Recommended log file analysis software for OS X?
Hiya ufmedia,
Funny you bring this up, I just spent a few hours pulling my hair out trying to get a log parser to work on my Mac. Ultimately, I went back to my PC and ran Web Log Explorer. I have heard good things about Splunk, but seems too robust for SEO purposes alone. Their free version allows for 500/MB per day. If you are under that, It might be worth giving it a go. Sawmill looks like it could do the trick, but may require a decent amount of setup. Thanks for the tip! I will check it out.
Thanks!
Tim
posted in Technical SEO
Blog Posts
12/18/2013
We've all become accustomed to seeing (not provided) instead of organic keywords, but many marketers are still wondering what to do without that data. Here are five tactics that'll get you back on track.
7/30/2013
Following up on a previous post about finding valuable SEO insights in your server logs, this post talks more specifically about using that data to optimize for Googlebot. Do you know how your crawl budget is allocated?
5/22/2013
With initiatives like Google Secure Search, Universal Search, and Knowledge Graph, it's becoming increasingly difficult for marketers to figure out how and why they receive Google referrals. It's time to reclaim your data by analyzing the VED paramater to make sense of the black hole (not provided) has left in Google referral traffic.
3/26/2013
As SEOs, we use all sorts of tools to glean insight into technical issues that may be hurting us: web analytics, crawl diagnostics, and Google and Bing Webmaster tools. All of these tools are useful, but there are undoubtedly holes in the data. There is only one true record of how search engines, such as Googlebot, process your website: your web server logs.
Product and marketing strategist, tinkerer of web apps and co-founder of AudienceWise
