SEOmoz Crawl Test

Crawl Test is a pretty self-explanatory tool. If you have been doing SEO for a while, you have probably seen lots of crawler tools. These tools allow you to figure out if search engines will have any issues with navigating your website. SEOmoz’s Crawl Test is one of these tools. A lot of folks think of these tests as being overrated, but I have personally solved a lot of issues on my sites and those of my clients by applying this test.

Crawl Test will show you:

• your indexed pages on Google
• the last time your pages were navigated by Google agents
• the status codes of your pages
• your meta file information
• the number of incoming links

What I like about Crawl Test is the fact that it shows you your duplicate title tags or descriptions tags. That’s really powerful. I am a perfectionist, and I have optimized my robots.txt and title tags time and time again to make sure there are no duplicate title tags on my websites. But after running Crawl Test, I still found a few duplicate title tags:

Crawl Test is a great tool to diagnose underperforming website. Obviously, there are a lot of other tools that you should use to pinpoint problems with your website, but using Crawl Test is a good start.