Update 1.60 – Keyword Extraction & Improved Social Profile Scraping

Do you want the good news or the bad news? Good news is we have a new update (woohoo!), bad news is that not a lot has changed (boo!). We’ve had a recent issue with Majestic data not coming back correctly, so this is a release driven by necessity (to fix the problem), although we […]

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Step-by-Step Guide to Resource Link Building

This is the first ever guest post published on the URL Profiler blog, and we are delighted to welcome Benjamin Beck to share his thoughts with us. You will almost definitely be aware of Benjamin’s work, as he’s one of those guys that just seems to be everywhere. He’s published on all the big industry […]

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Update 1.58 – Keyword Search Volume & Free Daily Link Metrics

Before I tell you what’s new, I have a bit of bad news to share – we’ve had to change the way we give you ‘free’ Majestic metrics. A year ago, Majestic gave us access to a throttled version of their API for use within our tool; unfortunately this API has now been decommissioned. As […]

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Twitter: Removing Share Counts to Increase Share Price?

Twitter announced recently that they are going to close down the API that provides share counts for webpages. This means that share buttons (like the one above) will no longer display counts, and tools (like URL Profiler) will no longer be able to report on Twitter share counts. It’s fair to say that a lot […]

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Update 1.55 – Search Analytics API Integration

The data you can pull together in URL Profiler is almost everything you could ever need to make decisions on content – link metrics, social shares, visitor counts, indexation, duplicate content, mobile-friendly, readability scores, even PageRank! (for those that still insist on using it…) But there has always been one thing missing – ranking data. […]

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How to Create and Submit a Disavow File

A disavow file allows a website owner to communicate with Google to tell them which of their incoming backlinks they don’t wish to be counted. It is effectively a message to Google to say ‘please ignore these links’. Before you get to the stage of creating a disavow file, you will first need to classify […]

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25,000 Reasons Why You Don’t Have a Mobile-Friendly Tag

Ok, I lied. It’s actually only 5 reasons. BUT I did look at 25,000 sites in the process… As we’ve all been told, Google plan to wreak havoc with the mobile SERPs, starting next Tuesday. You can avoid this drama by having a mobile-optimised site, and obtaining a nice ‘mobile-friendly’ tag from Google in the […]

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Update 1.51 – Mobile Friendly & PageSpeed Checks

We’ve been wanting to do this update for a while. We’ve had several emails about it, as well as a few public Tweets Hey @urlprofiler are you considering allowing URL Profiler to check URLs via Google’s mobile friendly tool? — Michael Jarrett (@fullvisual) March 24, 2015 Up until very recently, however, Google had not released […]

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Building Competitor SEO Profiles

When I worked agency-side, one of the first things we’d do for every new client was build a profile of all their main competitors across their top target keywords. This kind of intelligence offered us a broad overview of the niche and how competitive it was, so we could budget effectively and pick our battles. […]

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So You Think All Your Pages Are Indexed By Google? Think Again

It is not uncommon for SEOs to disagree on the KPIs you should track to measure your SEO efforts. One metric which is hard to argue with, however, is indexation. If a page is not indexed, it has vlno chance of attracting traffic from search. We have recently found that the classic method of checking […]

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