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    • SwanseaMedicine
      SwanseaMedicine last edited by

      I think our website is too big, far too many indexed pages. I'd like to do some research on how big our competitors' websites are (how many indexed pages). Is there a way to do this?

      Cheers,

      Rhys

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        SwanseaMedicine last edited by

        Thanks, both!

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        • ViviCa1
          ViviCa1 @LoganRay last edited by

          Xenu's Link Sleuth is free so you may want to check that out (not sure just now whether there are any limits with regard to website size) but I also recommend Screaming Frog - it's money well-spent, such a feature rich tool!

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          • LoganRay
            LoganRay @SwanseaMedicine last edited by

            I highly recommend buying the license for Screaming Frog, at $100/year, you won't find a more valuable SEO tool for the money. You won't find a free (and trustworthy) that will crawl a site that large.

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            • SwanseaMedicine
              SwanseaMedicine @Alick300 last edited by

              Hi Alick,

              I tried that but I only have the free version so we're capped at 500 URLs. Also, the site:search provided 50,000 results, but I know we don't have that many pages. Are there any other tools?

              Cheers,

              Rhys

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              • Alick300
                Alick300 last edited by

                Hi,

                Do a site: search on Google itself - like "site:google.com" - to return pages of SERPs containing the pages from your competitors site which Google has indexed.

                I would also suggest you use screaming frog tool you will get more accurate value here.

                Hope this helps.

                Thanks

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