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Scrapy for SEO (Python)
Do you want to build your own web crawler with Scrapy and Python? This guide will guide you through each setup to set up...
Extract Query by Page Using the Searchconsole API wrapper (Python)
In this tutorial, we will learn the query Google Search Console API using Josh Carty’s Python Wrapper. The wrapper is a very convenient way...
10 reasons to use Cloudflare on your website
A slow page load time can have a significant impact on your website visitors. In fact, according to Google, 53% of your visitors are...
Python Requests (Complete Guide)
The Python requests library is one of the most-used libraries to make HTTP requests using Python. In this tutorial, you will learn how to:...
Wikipedia API with Python
In this tutorial, we will use Python to extract data from the Wikipedia API. You will learn how to interact with the API using...
Mirror a Webpage on NGrok with Python and Wget
In this post, we are going to see how to make a mirror of a web page or even your entire website with Wget...
Basic SQL Commands
Let’s look at the basic SQL commands to interact with a Database. In my previous post to help you learn SQL, we built a...
Learn SQL by Building Your First SQLite Database
In this article, I will show you the basics of SQL and build a simple SQLite database that you can play with. We are...
Simple SQLite3 Tutorial With Python
In this tutorial, we will learn how to use SQLite3 with Python. Prerequisites If you don’t know SQL, make sure that you read my...
Introduction to Causal Impact
Understand what is CausalImpact and how it can be used to understand the causal effect of an event in the absence of an experiment....
Python CausalImpact (pyCausalImpact) and GSC – SEO Experiment
Evaluate the results of an SEO experiment on your site using Google Search Console and CausalImpact with Python. In this tutorial, we will learn...
Improve PageSpeed on my WordPress Site
Improving PageSpeed on your WordPress website can be a challenging endeavour, but it is possible. In this post, I will show you each step...
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Data studio and Search Console are valuable tools to identify low hanging fruits optimisations. We’ll show multiple reports that you can use to find...
How to connect Google Search Console with Google Data Studio?
This post will help you to connect your Google Search Console account to Google Data Studio. Create a Google Search Console Dashboard in Data...
Sitemap could not be read (Couldn’t fetch) in Google Search Console
The sitemap that you submitted in Google Search Console has the status “Couldn’t fetch”, what does it mean? The “Sitemap could not be read”...
Upload Sitemaps to Google Search Console with the API (Python)
In this tutorial, we will use Python and the sitemaps resource from the Google Search Console API to upload new sitemaps to Google Search...
Python Pickle
Pickle python module is used to serialize (pickle) python objects to bytes and de-serialize those bytes back to objects. It is very useful as...
Create a Cloudflare Worker for PageSpeed
With Core Web Vitals coming up as a ranking factor in Google, I have decided to tackle the lighthouse performance. What finally worked is...
Generate Dummy Data With Python
Creating a dummy dataset in Python is often useful to test functions without searching for a real dataset. Here are a few ways to...
Google Search Console (GSC) – Complete Guide
Google Search Console (GSC), formerly Google Webmaster tools, is a free tool that lets you monitor and debug your site’s performance in Google Search...
Verify Domain Ownership via DNS record in Google Search Console
Google Search Console allows validating your site at a domain level in a way that includes all versions of your site (https/http/www./m.). Google Search...
How to use the Crawl Stats Report in Google Search Console
The crawl stats report shows your statistics about Google crawling history of your website. Having an understanding of the crawling of pages on your...
How to use the URL Inspection Tool
The URL inspection tool enables you to view how Google is seeing the pages on your website live and monitor the technical changes you’re...
How to use the Index Coverage Report?
The Index Coverage report helps you understand quickly what’s happening with your website. By using the index coverage report, you can understand which web...
How to use the Performance Report in Google Search Console
The performance report in Google Search Console provides key metrics on traffic and rankings. It’s the perfect way to follow up with your ranking...
How to Validate Your Site in Google Search Console
Before you can use Google Search Console (GSC), you need to validate your site. In this post we will learn how to validate your...
Regular Expressions (RegEx) in Google Search Console
Google Search Console just started to support regular expressions (RegEx) in filters. Let’s learn how to leverage RegEx to analyse GSC data. This article...
Uncompress Multiple GZip files with Python
Recently, I had a lot of CSV files that needed uncompressing. I didn’t like the options available, because I didn’t fully understand them. I...
Read RSS Feed with Python and Beautiful Soup
You can read RSS feeds with Python using requests and BeautifulSoup (bs4). Getting Started Install Required Libraries In your Terminal, install the lxml, requests...