Hey, so we’re scheduled to release the web based version of our crawler in January 2023 as a BETA. It’s a little far in the future I know but bare in mind we are just two people doing this as a side project. At the start essentitally the look and feel should be somewhat similar…
While it is not really mentioned here too much my passion aside from building things and products is cars. I’ve also worked in the car industry for the past 9 years and I also have purchased cars from the consumer point of view. There are many points of interaction in a used car buying journey…
Hello, So after around 5 years out of active development, I have decided to restart development on the Beam Us Up crawler! This time it’ll run from your browser. At first we’ll just be keeping the same functionality as before and make it run from your browser. And best of all it’ll be entirely free.…
Join me as I take a look at Wagestream and look at how they could make their product easier to understand to improve conversion rate from their homepage as well as their lead generation page. What is the problem? Wagestream has a great product (I’ve never used it but it sounds great), the problem is…
I used to read SEO blogs religiously and try and be as white hat as I could about 10 years ago. When I first got my first official 9-5 working in SEO (my first experience in SEO was back when I was 14 (16 years ago)). I worked at a small agency and tried to…
My point: Create something of value in your industry to give credibility to your work, and you may find you’ll be getting more career opportunities. (Continue reading for more details…) My original purpose of setting up this website was as a freelancer, then to launch a business and then to create software and tools and…
So I started this website with a purpose of creating a free SEO tool which I did and finished. I made the project mostly to learn what it was like to do something like that and to get my own name out there. Well it worked for that purpose and the things I learnt by…
The reason I left this software to depreciate was because I started another company Carcondor. Within the automotive industry. Let me tell you how all of that got started, for you to understand how a product is created from a problem. But mostly for me to plug my own company 😉 2014 I am working…
So currently we do not really support any of the software as it is largely discontinued as we are busy with other projects. However we keep getting many emails about issues with Mac/Linux versions so to make things easier we will no longer be offering the downloads to these versions without this warning: We do…
Hello, We’ve updated the BUU crawler as it seems the latest version of Java broke it! It has now been updated for Windows/Linux the Mac version should be ready next week but if you are using Mac then you can actually download the Linux version and run that just look up (how to run JAR…
Every week on Fridays at 1pm EST, 12 CST, 11 am MT, 10 PST we gather together on Twitter to play #SEOGOFISH, and this week was no exception. The topic for this week was Tools & Guides for Creating EPIC Content and we go a great set of contributions and quotes to share on the topic.…
A new site is always a dangerous and exciting time in marketing. All the stake-holders get their input, old becomes new and opportunity is right there for the taking. Unfortunately, this is also a time where disaster can lurk in the shadows waiting for a deadline being pushed up to jump out and say BOO!…
Hey Buddy, so you want to track how many people are sharing your content through social media? What those users are doing? And even users who copy and paste your link and share it? Well before you’d have to follow an excellent tutorial by Himanshu Sharma which as well written as it may be for your average…
So it’s been ages since we’ve lasted posted or last released an update and some people may be wondering what on earth are you guys doing?! Yes we still support Beam Us Up SEO Crawler (infact if you send a support query you’ll be surprised by how fast we reply to you!). Yes we will…
Let us take you on a fantastic journey through Google’s Webmaster tools that will help both beginners and intermediate SEOs on your next site audit to discover problems, discover trends, find opportunities and uncover search penalties applied to your site. A huge shout out and thank you to the very talented Gyi Tsakalakis, SEO Director EPL…
We’re going to start a series of blog posts to build up the perfect checklist for you to use in your next SEO site audit. We thought we give you some basics on each element and some input from technical SEOs who do this every day for some new insights. What Are Headers & How…
We haven’t released a new version of our SEO site crawler in months because we’ve been hard at work on our next big project. However, today is the day for us to release a new version of our crawl tool, we hope you enjoy the updates! Be sure to let us know of other crawl…
So as you may be aware at Beam Us Up we love Google Analytics! (Didn’t notice? Check out our other tools) Anyway so we have created a tool that unsamples Google Analytics reports in seconds! And it’s super easy to use! (If your not aware of sampling then you probably don’t need this tool). You can…
Every week on Fridays at 1pm EST, 12 CST, 11 am MT, 10 PST we gather together on Twitter to play #SEOGOFISH, and this week was no exception. The topic for this week was Tools & Guides for Creating EPIC Content and we go a great set of contributions and quotes to share on the topic.…
I was crawling a rival website the other day… Oh, you didn’t know you could crawl someone else’s website? Well, you can, and it’s one of the best ways you can gain a competitive advantage. Competitive crawling may sound like a silly contest of babies racing each other across the floor, but it’s actually an…
Topic for #SEOGOFISH : Visual Assets/Content You WISH Your SEO Client Had Made. Join us at 11am CST and share that dream content! — Jeremy Rivera (@JeremyRiveraSEO) April 3, 2014 This weeks winner for #SEOGOFISH was Kate Gramlich of ghergich.com she won a copy Predatory Thinking by Dave Trott which is one of William’s (who? he works here at BUU)…
*PLEASE NOTE THIS WAS AN APRIL FOOLS JOKE* So at Beam Us Up as you know we’re pretty big on creating things! (Our crawler, analytics cro tool, htaccess tool & analytics extension). We like to keep at the forefront of everything. Which is why today! We are launching our new service MozTach.
*PLEASE NOTE THIS WAS AN APRIL FOOLS JOKE* We’ve updated our crawler yet again! This time with our new PHYSICAL API! Here is Chris Bawden explaining what it is and how to use it. Download [one_third] Download Windows XP, 7, 8 [/one_third] [one_third] Download Mac OSX [/one_third] [one_third_last] Download Linux [/one_third_last] Don’t forget you’ll need…
Update: We’ve been hard at work and have a newer version of our crawler, don’t worry though we’ve updated all the download links across the site so you won’t get an old version. This is a big release for us and for you! As crawler limits have been lifted. Changes: Removed Crawler Limits – Previously you…
Tweet chats are great but go so quickly! Here’s a round up of the links posted for the game today on twitter. (Come play next week at 11am CST!) This week we gave away a free copy of the Ultimate Guide to Link Building by Garrett French and Eric Ward to Victor Pan of Catalyst and will give another…
[box type=’info’]Chris Bawden is a SEO celebrity in the making you can find him at: CRBawden.com check it out for more great posts. Chris had some problems recently while boldly crawling where nobody crawled before. He shares his experiences below:[/box] Web crawlers are one of the most important tools an SEO has in his or…
This is a recap of the second week for #SEOGOFISH, here’s the first week’s roundup which focused on Site Audits. For those of you unfamiliar, #SEOGOFISH is a twitter game where you share the best posts you know based on the topic of the week. This week we had Brad Knutson, A.J. Ghergich, Caddis Interactive, Nitin…
Shall we play a game? #seogofish Reply with the BEST post you’ve read/written on: #SEOaudits cc @seo @gyitsakalakis pic.twitter.com/dQPffGM9NN — Jeremy Rivera (@JeremyRiveraSEO) February 27, 2014 This morning I decided to play a little game on twitter and see if I could get people to play along and provide the best posts and resources on…
An Interview with James Blackwell of BuzzSumo We love seeing new tools getting created for the online marketing industry (that’s why we’ve made a few tools of our own) so we thought we would ask some questions to James Blackwell, co-founder of an awesome social media tool called Buzzsumo. Hopefully you’ll read something useful for…
[box type=’info’]As the Technical Coordinator of the Search Marketing and Advertising team at TechSmith Corporation(if you’ve ever watched a screencast you’ve seen their software in action), a software company in Okemos, Michigan, Chris Bawden is responsible for Analytics and the technical aspects of SEO. In doing so, he spiders the website daily, so we asked…
Update: We’ve been hard at work and have a newer version of our site crawler, don’t worry though we’ve updated all the download links across the site so you won’t get an old version. Changes: Google Drive (Spreadsheet) Export (Let us know what you think, if you want us to make this automated) All URLs added to XLS…
Update: We’ve been hard at work and a newer version of our sep crawler is available. Don’t worry though we’ve updated all the download links across the site so you won’t get an old version. So we’ve been talking about it and the moment has come for us to release this new release which includes: Loads of bug fixes! Dedicated…
New Version fixing a bug that stopped sites from scanning. Thanks to Nicolai Helling for spotting it. Download [one_third] Download Windows XP, 7, 8 [/one_third] [one_third] Download Mac OSX [/one_third] [one_third_last] Download Linux [/one_third_last] Don’t forget you’ll need Java installed on your computer to run our software (most will have this installed already)
I’ve got a new version for you with a BIG bug fix and a 2 new features one of which is in testing. Bugs Fixed: Problems opening in Windows – didn’t open at all for some people New Features: Filter counter – counts the number of pages within the current window. Smart duplicates option –…
So you’re running a test using your favourite testing tool and you want to quickly using data from Google Analytics find out the percentage difference in all your metrics for each variation compared to the control. However usually you’d have to export to excel then figure out the percentage differences there wasting time… Not any more!…
Hello and happy new year! So thought I would give you some updates on what is coming next and when. New site crawler should be released next week with new Mac version 😉 As well as some extra features and bug fixes. This website has had problems in the last few days I’ve changed hosting…
2 Versions in one day! That’s right. Anyway what’s new?: Minor bug fixes Dedicated Windows version (much faster speed on windows) Download [one_third] Download Windows XP, 7, 8 [/one_third] [one_third] Download Mac OSX [/one_third] [one_third_last] Download Linux [/one_third_last] Don’t forget you’ll need Java installed on your computer to run our software (most will have…
New build of the crawler tool is now live! Thanks for everyone’s help in making this version possible by providing feedback. We would specially like to shout out to Simon Fryer and Nicholas Chimonas for helping. Changes: Table error fixes (sometimes when viewing an item in the top window the more detailed report below showed a different URL)…
New build has been created! Changes: Exporting CSV Bug Fixes Improved Stability Some false positive iFrame’s fixed Download [one_third] Download Windows XP, 7, 8 [/one_third] [one_third] Download Mac OSX [/one_third] [one_third_last] Download Linux [/one_third_last] Don’t forget you’ll need Java installed on your computer to run our software (most will have this installed already)
(Update: Our newest version can now export to XLS and Google Drive and has dedicated Mac, Windows and Linux versions!) So it’s taken quite a while. But finally my seo site crawling software is ready for public use! So what does it do? It crawls entire websites and searches for errors and other things you…
It might surprise you to hear that most keyword research is done incorrectly. I hope that this first part in the series will teach you how to avoid those errors using Google Adwords’ New Keyword Planner tool.
Video about how I use HideMyAss VPN & Rank Tracker to track my web rankings 🙂 Below is the video transcript: So a question has been asked about how to find out the serp position (search engine results page) position for any given keyword, properly and accurately. Well there are a few problems with this…
So I saw this question asked on Google+ and I thought I would answer it: https://plus.google.com/111807789452506140902/posts/cnWonsBZMep Transcript will go below once I do it 😉
After a long time of always going to Google to make my .htaccess files I have created a generator wizard to do it. As none I found where good enough for what I wanted! Please check it out here and let me know what you think! Make sure you share it if you think it’s good…
So I am creating a new technical SEO auditing software and I need people to help me test it give me new ideas on features and contribute! Everyone who helps will be linked to from the credits section and plus you’ll be using this software before anyone else! Anyway so you want to be part…
So you want to get your Google+ Plus profile listed next to your search engine results? And using WordPress and Yoast’s SEO plugin? Great. You can either watch the video above which is 3:30mins or you can read along below either way the content is the same. Before we start here’s your checklist: You are…