I'll show you how to achieve this result as an example of how Gephi can be helpful in your SEO efforts. You'll be able to see which pages are the most interesting pages on your website, determine how pages can be grouped by topic, and identify some common website problems such as crawl errors or poor internal linking. Next, I'll outline some ideas for taking the concept to the next level of geekery. What is Gephi? Gephi is free open source software that is used to graph networks and is commonly used to represent computer networks and social media networks. It is a simple Java-based desktop program that runs on

Windows, Mac, or Linux. Although the current version of Gephi is 0.9.1, I encourage you to download the previous version, 0.9.0, or the later version, 0.9.2, instead. That way you can follow along here, and you'll avoid the bugs and headaches of the current version. (If you haven't done so recently, you may also need to install Java on your computer.) 1. Start by crawling your website jewelry retouching service and collecting data I normally use Screaming Frog for exploration. Since we are interested in the pages here and not other files, you will need to exclude items from the scan data. To do this, those of you who have the paid version of the software should implement the settings that

I will describe next. (If you're using the free version, which limits you to collecting 500 URLs and doesn't let you change that many settings, I'll explain what to do later.) Go to "Configuration" > "Spider" and you will see something like the screenshot below. Match yours to mine for the best results. I also add normally. * (png | jpg | jpeg | gif | bmp) $ to 'Configuration' > 'Exclude' to get rid of the images that Screaming Frog sometimes leaves in the crawl report. Screaming Frog Exploration Settings To start crawling, place your site URL in the top left space (shown below).