Bulk Downloading Backlink Data from Google Search Console

I wanted a quick way to get all backlink data from Google Search Console for a domain so I built this Python script. Setup isn’t too complicated. You’ll need to run this on your local machine or somewhere you’re logged into Search Console. First, add your GSC cookie to the gsc_cookie.txt file Open GSC->External Links->More, … Read more

Four Places to Check the Google SEO Weather (SERP Volatility)

MozCast by Moz – most poplar, tracks different google search result page features (Images, Videos, FAQ, etc) https://moz.com/mozcast SEMRush Sensor – probably the 2nd most popular, has a great mobile/desktop and category filter https://semrush.com/sensor/ Algoroo – made by the SEO Marketing Group, DEJAN out of Australia (of course) 🦘. – limited functions, but contains history … Read more

Updated WordPress Ping List / Update Services [and why you shouldn’t use a big list]

WordPress offers a feature called “Update Services” in Settings -> Writing. Many blogs will offer large “Ping Lists” for you to add as Update Services. They claim adding these will improve indexing, but most of these lists will do more harm than good. Why these lists are useless a large number of invalid pings can … Read more

Push your pages to Baidu by adding this code

Baidu has a little snippet of code that will send a request to their server with the current page url in order to promote new page indexing <script> (function(){ var bp = document.createElement(‘script’); bp.src = ‘//push.zhanzhang.baidu.com/push.js’; var s = document.getElementsByTagName(“script”)[0]; s.parentNode.insertBefore(bp, s); })(); </script> Adding the above code to your site will cause a request … Read more

SEO for PDF Meta Tags [Case Study]

It’s great to optimize your pdf content for SEO, but what about PDF meta information? We are evaluating what meta information needs to be maintained for best PDF SEO performance with the attached document. For this case study, we uploaded this pdf with unique tags in the Filename, Author, Description, Subject, Creator, About, and Producer meta … Read more

10 GB in a 27 KB Gzip File [My Present To HTTP Scanners]

Here’s a gzip bomb I use to redirect http scanners and web scrapers to: 10G.gz Create a PHP file with the following: < ?php header('Content-Encoding: gzip'); echo file_get_contents('10G.gz'); Example: http://rehmann.co/gz-bomb.php How it works: A web-crawler or browser requests the page and sends the "accept-encoding: gzip, deflate, br" header. So long as gzip is accepted, the ... Read more