How to find missing or incorrect title tags with a site hosting lots of pages.
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i have a website that features more than 9,000 pages. i'm trying to figure out which ones have missing or incorrect title tags. Should I start with screaming frog??
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Hi,
I can't recommend the ScreamingFrog enough!
The free version has a limit of 500 pages, so you will need a license.With such a large site it it recommended to check on the crawl progress to ensure there are no crawl 'loops'
If for example it turns out that a calendar on a page counts as a link for every day then the crawl will likely never finish!
Luckily you can fix such things by creating a URL Exclude rule and the re running the spider.Kind Regards
Jimmy
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Hi there
Yes, you can try ScreamingFrog and also Moz Analytics will help with this as well.
Start there - hope it helps! Good luck!
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