New v1.1 release of SEO Macroscope: Babel

This release of SEO Macroscope includes support for automatic language detection of title, description, and content in your web pages and PDFs, where possible.

Chiefly, this is another tool to help identify problems with multilingual websites. For example, to detect content that is in the wrong language for a particular site.

• https://github.com/nazuke/SEOMacroscope/releases/tag/v1.1.0.0

Please check the downloads page for more recent versions.

This release has some improvements in terms of display speed, and the user interface.

From time to time, memory may be exhausted. I've been working on strategies to try and avoid this.

I've also fixed some minor bugs.

Features added include:

• Automatic language detection, where possible, of title and description meta tags, and the page content. This function applies to both web pages, and to PDFs when PDF processing is enabled.

Please report issues at https://github.com/nazuke/SEOMacroscope/issues.

New v1.0 release of SEO Macroscope: Robotic

SEO Macroscope has reached the a stage of development where I am comfortable that it is ready for daily use.

• https://github.com/nazuke/SEOMacroscope/releases/tag/v1.0.0.0

Please check the downloads page for more recent versions.

This release has some improvements in terms of display speed, finding more links, and robots and sitemap handling.

Features added include:

• Discovery of and processing of XML and plain text sitemaps.
• Reporting of links within robots.txt.
• Cleaner keyword terms processing.

Please report issues at https://github.com/nazuke/SEOMacroscope/issues.

SEO Macroscope: Relativity

This wil hopefully be the last beta release before version 1.0.

Features Added

• Logging and reporting of relative/absolute URLs used in pages.
• Support and detection of text-based sitemaps.
• Cosmetic enhancements in overview and document details panels.
• Added Remarks report, for arbitrary problems discovered during a crawl.
• Implemented support for inline CSS processing, to find links to external CSS assets.
• Query strings may now be ignored.

SEO Macroscope: The A List

Link and hyperlink tracking have been cleaned up since the last release. Briefly:

• "Hyperlinks" are tracked purely as <a href=""> links into and out of HTML pages to or from some other location.
• "Links" are tracked as links to all external assets and other locations in and out of HTML and other document types. For example, images will have inbound links, but no outbound links.

Some of the Excel reporting has also been tidied up. in particular, there are now better reports for the above links and hyperlinks.

For long-running operations, I've added some progress dialogues; to indicate that something is happening.

Also added is the implementation for pasting a list of URLs to crawl, as well as the existing load URL list from file. Coupled to this, I have implemented the option to crawl sites linked from the loaded or pasted lists; the checkbox for this in preferences now works.

Next, I plan to write the manual, and work towards a version 1.0 release.

SEO Macroscope: The Monster

SEO Macroscope is firming up now, there's still a lot to be done, but it's close to being useful enough for day-to-day tasks.

In this release, I've reworked the way that "hyperlinks in" are managed, moving them out into the document collection manager, instead of handling them within each document. This makes it a little simpler to rebuild and scan the cross-links within the crawled collection. There are still some URL types that do not have inbound links properly managed, I'll be working on those in the next release.

I've been building out the collection of Excel reports too, combining related data into consolidated report types.

One experimental feature that I have implemented is an Levenshtein Edit Distance library to try and detect duplicate, or near-duplicate content in the collection. The intent here is to find pages that have very similar content; as these may be flagged as duplicates by the search engines.

First Beta Version of SEO Macroscope

This is the first beta release of SEO Macroscope for Windows, the website link scanning and technical SEO tool.

This was built against .NET 4.5.2.

There are still going to be many bugs in this version, and many features and functions remain to be implemented. However, this beta version is functional enough to be used for many link checking tasks right now.

Basic functionality includes:

• Scanning all links on one or more websites.
• Reporting broken, redirected, and other types of issues.
• Reporting metadata about each found URL.
• Generating an HrefLang Matrix, for multilingual websites.
• Isolating scans to URL subsets.
• Extraction and report of telephone number and email links.

SEO functionality includes:

• Set and report acceptable word, character, and pixel lengths for titles.
• Set and report acceptable word, character lengths for descriptions.
• Report on titles, descriptions, keywords, and headings.
• Optionally generate keyword occurrences across pages and the entire site.
• Scan and extract metadata for PDFs.

Reports may be exported to Excel format. Currently, these include:

• A scan overview.
• An HrefLang Matrix of multilingual sites.
• Page contents, including titles, descriptions, keywords, and headings.

More functionality will be added in the future.