How to analyze Web site logs

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The Web server log file is usually a file that ends with log, and so another claim is log, which contains the details of the server receiving and processing various requests, and the website log is a detailed historical database for the site manager. Through it, you can learn more about your site.

View Web site log files

Site log is generally placed in the host directory containing the word log root folder, you can use the FTP tool to download the site log log to the local analysis.

You can use Notepad or other software to open the site log files to view, and the other point of water recommended a number of free log analysis software to help us easier to view and analyze the log files.

How to analyze Web site logs

View Web Log We are mainly used to analyze the behavior of search engines, before this:

We need to know the name of the main search engine spiders first.

Baidu: Baiduspider

360 Search: 360Spider

Google: Googlebot

Search: Sosospider

Sogou: Sogouspider

Also learn about common HTTP status codes:

200 represents normal crawl

304 means no change in crawl content

404 means it is wrong to crawl this link

Small Web Analytics site log

1, website online

Web site submitted to the search engine portal or published outside the chain to attract search engine spiders, can observe the Web site log in the spider behavior to know whether the site has been crawled, now Google's collection speed is usually very fast, Baidu is currently on the home page included a great increase in speed, usually around 1-3 days will be included, If your site is not included in a week to one months or more, then there may be a problem, at which point you can analyze the log to see if it has been crawled by spiders, thus analyzing the results.

2, the site included changes

Site collection has been relatively normal situation, suddenly from a day began to fall or stop the collection of new included, this time can be compared to observe the search engine spiders crawl volume changes, if the log changes are not obvious, it may be the search engine itself database or display problems.

3, the site was K

If the site is the search engine spiders punished or by K (delete included), you can observe the spider's recent visit to determine whether the site should continue. If the spider visit and crawl times have increased slowly, that may have the hope of recovery, if the spider has been access to little or no access to the situation can consider changing domain names.

Analysis log analysis of large web site

Medium and large industry website usually will not have the website on-line and the website is blocked and so on, but through the analysis website log to be able to the website overall SEO strategy to make the guidance function:

1, basic information

Through the log analysis to get spider total crawl amount, stay time and the number of visits and other basic information, and then through a period of comparison can clear the site at present the overall search engine friendliness.

2, guide the site structure adjustment

Through the observation of a period of time the main channel of the site to capture data comparisons, and the channel under the different amount of inventory to adjust the site structure and navigation, access, etc., can also be based on the site product priority to make appropriate adjustments.

3, repeat crawl rate

Some of the key product pages of repeated crawl will often bring spiders into the dead loop or cause a waste of resources, but to reduce the real value of the page is the probability of being crawled.

Through the long-term observation and analysis of the site log can not only let you have a clearer understanding of the development of the site, in the face of problems can be resolved in a timely manner, more able to guide the site's overall SEO strategy, therefore, we need to let the data speak, so that the SEO strategy more scientific. Article first A5, reproduced please note that the eye lamp http://www.n6188.com/, respect for copyright!

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