Starting a Content Inventory

Some of the first questions that we ask someone thinking about using DubBot are:

  • How many pages does your website have?
  • How many digital assets like PDFs and Word docs does it have?

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Of course, DubBot would be glad to help you get answers to these questions.

An easy way to get a ballpark idea is to do a site search of your site using Google. To do this, search, starting with 'site:' followed by your site, with no spaces. This is an example of using Google to get an estimated count of content using DubBothtml5-dom-document-internal-entity2-8217-ends own website.

Another tool that Ihtml5-dom-document-internal-entity2-8217-endve used is Screaming Frog's SEO Spider Tool. They have a free and paid version of this desktop tool. The free version is plenty unless you plan to continue using the tool after your initial audit. The following is a screenshot after spidering our own website.

screen shot of Screaming Frog content inventory

Blaine Herman
Chief Bot Wrangler