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Robots.txt
The robots.txt is a file that sits on the root of a domain, for example: https://www.screamingfrog.co.uk/robots.txt This provides crawling instructions to bots visiting the site, which they voluntarily follow. In this guide, we’ll explore why you should have a robots.txt,...
Page Titles
Writing a good page title is an essential skillset for anyone in SEO, as they help both users and search engines understand the purpose of a page. In this guide we take you through the fundamentals, as well as more...
How do I extract multiple matches of a regex?
If you want all the H1s from the following HTML: <html> <head> <title>2 h1s</title> </head> <body> <h1>h1-1</h1> <h1>h1-2</h1> </body> </html> Then we can use: <h1>(.*?)</h1>
Why is my regex extracting more than expected?
If you are using a regex like .* that contains a greedy quantifier you may end up matching more than you want. The solution to this is to use a regex like .*?. For example if you are trying to...
How does the Spider treat robots.txt?
The SEO Spider is robots.txt compliant. It checks robots.txt in the same way as Google. It will check robots.txt of the (sub) domain and follow directives specifically any for Googlebot, or for all user-agents. You are able to adjust the...
Why isn’t my Include/Exclude function working?
The Include and Exclude are case sensitive, so any functions need to match the URL exactly as it appears. Please read both guides for more information. Functions will be applied to URLs that have not yet been discovered by the...
