Google Sitemaps Review - Google Sitemap Statistics: Crawl stats, Page analysis, and Index stats

Google Sitemap Statistics: Crawl stats, Page analysis, and Index stats

The Crawl stats are a little less interesting, but they give an overview of what is on other pages. Through distribution bars, like you can see below, the site shows the percentage of your pages that Google crawled successfully. It looks like 95% of SEO Chat's links were successfully crawled. The ones that weren't were restricted by robots.txt and nofollow tags for the most part.

Crawl Stats

A second graph shows the amount of PageRank your pages have. Again, it uses distribution sliders to display how many pages have PR that is: High, Medium, Low, and PageRank not yet assigned. You can also see which of your pages has the highest PageRank for the months you have used sitemaps. It should probably be your homepage.

Page analysis displays some more interesting keyword information. The two tables here go hand in hand with the query stats. They show what words are more common on your site and what words are most common in anchor text of links to your site. Of course, both help to determine what terms you show up for in search queries. So, they might give you a clue why your site shows up for any surprising keywords.

 
Page Analysis Keywords

In our case, there is really nothing surprising at all. To weed out less relevant keywords for SEO Chat, we might be interested in reducing the number of times we use "dev" on our site, but it's part of our network name. We might also want to reduce how much we use "thread," but that's kind of hard to reduce in the forums.

This section also shows the type of content Google is indexing the most (HTML, PDF, plain text, etc.) and the encoding that is used most often on the site (ASCII, ISO8859, etc.).

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