The agile SEO blog

August 20, 2020

Table of Contents Introduction Crawler traps created by faceted navigation Fixing crawler traps through the implementation of robots.txt directives  Manually checking the faceted navigation Using the RankSense app to identify and fix crawler traps Introduction It is crucial for SEO that every website gets crawled by a search engine’s web crawler, such as Google’s Googlebot....

August 18, 2020

For the following RankSense webinar, we were joined by Elias Dabbas, the owner of The Media Supermarket, here to run us through his Python script for testing robots.txt. Elias takes us through his programming journey as a marketer, detailing the key struggles and his takeaways. He also provides a lot of insight into his script,...

August 14, 2020

My name is Jason Levin and I am a Marketing Consultant for RankSense. I help our users achieve their goals with our technology and educational resources.  I am a big fan of books, and enjoy sharing my findings with others.  Last month, I covered From Impossible to Inevitable by Aaron Ross. In this article, I’ll...

July 30, 2020

The following blog post includes an interview with Hamlet Batista and Cloudflare’s Zach Bloom. What the full interview on CloudflareTV here. Bloom: I would love to hear about the story of RankSense and what problem it solves. Batista: Ranksense is an agile SEO platform. It’s about doing things iteratively, having a fast feedback loop, and...

July 16, 2020

In this interview with Aleyda Solis, Hamlet goes into the ins and outs of working remotely, why he chose this for RankSense, and why it works so well. Watch the full interview on Remoters.  RankSense is a fully remote business consisting of employees from all across the globe, including India, Europe, and the United States to...

July 15, 2020

My name is Jason Levin and I am a Marketing Consultant for RankSense. I help our users achieve their goals with our technology and educational resources.  When I am not working at RankSense, I spend my time reading, writing, exercising, and working on my Facebook Ads agency, Ten Daisies.  I have a deep love for...

July 10, 2020

What SERP features does my competitor have that I don’t? There are various tools we can use to analyze this, such as SEMrush reports to view each feature at a time, but what if we have to repeat this process every month, or say for multiple competitors?  We’ll learn how to leverage the SEMrush API...

July 03, 2020

A recent report published by Moz’s Peter Meyers asked the telling question, “How Low Can #1 Go?”  Organic blue links have continued to be pushed further and further down the SERP. In the article above, a search for “lollipops” displayed the following result.  Looks like bad news for SEOs.  But let’s look at the glass...

June 30, 2020

Pagination is a common technique used for the design of websites that offer a large amount of content to their users. For example, e-commerce websites commonly use pagination in order to display their products in a more organized manner.  However, what you may not know is that some popular Content Management Systems (CMS) incorrectly treat...