{"id":753,"date":"2017-11-27T08:00:28","date_gmt":"2017-11-26T23:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/websavii.com\/?p=753"},"modified":"2017-11-09T11:01:21","modified_gmt":"2017-11-09T02:01:21","slug":"backlink-check-guide-tools","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/websavii.com\/backlink-check-guide-tools\/","title":{"rendered":"Ultimate Backlinks Checker Guide Checklist"},"content":{"rendered":"

Backlinks are essential elements in achieving website keyword rankings, increasing traffic (referrals, organic, or direct), and diversifying anchor text. It’s also the most used technique in the world of search engine optimisation (SEO). A page that has lots of diversified backlinks tend to rank higher in all major search engines including, Google, Yahoo and Bing.<\/span><\/p>\r\n \r\n

What are internal links?<\/span><\/h1>\r\n \r\n

Internal links are hyperlinks on web pages that can be found either on your site, other pages, or other domains. Depending on the target destination, your links can either be \u201cexternal\u201d or \u201cinternal\u201d in terms of backlink sources. The Hyperlinks on the other hand, can either be found in the main navigation, main body, site-wide links, or in the footer links.<\/span><\/p>\r\n\"over-internal-linking\"\r\n\r\nHow to check your internal & external links\r\n

With the help of the right tools, you can deeply crawl any website\u2019s internal or external links. Links are essential in obtaining traffic, decreasing bounce rate, and enhancing user usability experience (depending on how it was placed). You can simply download free tools online, install (Windows, Mac, Linux) and upload a list of urls. <\/span>\r\n<\/b><\/p>\r\n

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5 most used tools and their functions<\/strong><\/h2>\r\n \r\n

1. Screaming Frog<\/strong><\/h3>\r\n

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Screaming Frog software is one of the best SEO tools. It is basically a web crawler software where \u00a0you can crawl and view the entire links (free trial) of a particular website you want to check. Any website can be crawled except if it has no index, no follow attributes, or the site is blocked by robots.txt. But you can ignore the robots.txt by going to configuration > Spider > find and uncheck ignore robots.txt and try running it again (you will be needing the paid version for you to uncheck the feature).<\/span><\/p>\r\n

The software is available to Windows, Mac, and Linux for download. It has a minimum specification to be able to run Java 8 update 66 above and at least 512MB of RAM. Your memory allocation depends on how many URLs you can crawl. For a paid version, you can check their pricing<\/span> here<\/span><\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0download the software <\/span>here<\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\r\n \r\n

Screaming Frog untold Features<\/strong><\/h4>\r\n \r\n
1. How to increase Screaming Frog memory for Windows Operating System<\/strong><\/h5>\r\n

Most users experience running out of RAM when trying to crawl a huge list of sites. You will receive pop-up messages when it occurs. To avoid this error, simply upgrade your machine to 64 bit and install the 64-bit version of Java to maximise the memory allocation. To verify and check your memory allocation visit HELP > Debug and look at the memory line of the software.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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2. Unlimited List Mode for free trial version<\/b><\/h5>\r\n

For the trial version, the list mode is unlimited. You can directly upload up to 10K URLs and crawl them. \u00a0However, if you avail their paid subscription, Screaming Frog will extend the features of the crawling rates.<\/span><\/p>\r\n

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3.\u00a0<\/b>Editing Meta Tags on SERP snippet Emulator<\/b><\/h5>\r\n \r\n

One of the features that a free trial offers is that you can edit the Meta tags to fit the recommended length of characters. <\/span><\/p>\r\n