Analyze SEO Issues with BotScope
SEO audits usually run on sample crawls of a tool — but your real crawl behaviour you only see in your server logs. BotScope turns these logs into SEO analysis no other tool can deliver.
💰 Crawl budget analysis
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URLs per day by Googlebot
Trend, spikes, drops visible at a glance — changes correlate with visibility movements in Search Console.
Trend, spikes, drops visible at a glance — changes correlate with visibility movements in Search Console.
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Which paths burn budget?
Thousands of requests on ?utm_source=…, session IDs or faceted filters are pure waste — Googlebot crawls junk instead of your real content.
Thousands of requests on ?utm_source=…, session IDs or faceted filters are pure waste — Googlebot crawls junk instead of your real content.
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Smartphone vs. Desktop split
Mobile-First indexing: 95%+ should come from the smartphone crawler. If desktop dominates, there's a setup problem.
Mobile-First indexing: 95%+ should come from the smartphone crawler. If desktop dominates, there's a setup problem.
🔍 Indexing issues
- 📭 Sitemap URLs without crawl
BotScope reconciles sitemap.xml with the logs — URLs that are never visited never rank. - 💥 404 on crawled URLs
Harms domain authority. Remove via 410 or restore content. - 🔁 Redirect chains
Googlebot via 3+ hops to content = crawl budget waste + ranking loss. - 🌪️ Content drift
Path returns 200 today, was 410 thirty days ago → Google's index is inconsistent.
🔗 Google Search Console integration
BotScope merges GSC data (impressions, clicks, position) with crawl data from your logs.
🍒 Low-hanging fruits
URLs crawled a lot but not ranking → optimize content, visibility follows.
⚡ Under-crawled top URLs
URLs ranking but rarely crawled → boost internal linking, raise sitemap priority.
🚨 Search-impacting errors
5xx on a top-ranking URL = acute visibility risk, fix immediately.
📊 Real-world example
Starting situation: A blog with 5,000 articles finds Googlebot crawling only 1,200 URLs per day.
BotScope finding:
800
parameter URLs
?print, ?share…
?print, ?share…
400
real content URLs
67%
crawl budget waste
Action: Block parameter URLs via robots.txt → Googlebot now crawls 1,200 REAL URLs/day. Indexing accelerates 3x, visibility grows.
🤖 Bot-specific optimization
🖼️ Googlebot-Image
Optimize images, alt tags, Schema.org/ImageObject
🔍 Bingbot
IndexNow pings, MSN-specific meta tags
🍎 Applebot
Apple News, Sirikit markup
🐉 Asian crawlers