Improving SEO with Log File Analysis
Log files are automatically created by a server. These file consist of various activities performed on your website. You can learn about the page requests you have received with the log files.
Hallam’s Elliot Haines has shared an article highlighting the ways you can use log files for better SEO.
Haines says, “For SEO purposes, we are concerned with a web server log which contains a history of page requests for a website, from both humans and robots. This is also sometimes referred to as an access log, and the raw data looks something like this:
Yes, the data looks a bit overwhelming and confusing at first, so let’s break it down and look at a “hit” more closely.
An Example Hit
Every server is inherently different in logging hits, but they typically give similar information that is organised into fields.
Below is a sample hit to an Apache web server”.
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