What is Siteliner?
Siteliner is an SEO tool that can be used to explore your website and discover issues affecting your site’s quality and search engine rankings. This tool can also help you find duplicate content, broken links, and create an XML sitemap for your site that you can Submit to Google through the Search Console.
How To Use Siteliner? (Features)
- Detailed Page Results: Siteliner offers specific results when analyzing a particular page.
- Summary Information for the Entire Site: the results of the analysis of an entire site are offered as a summary.
- Duplicate Content: with this tool, you can visualize all the duplicated pages of any given page of a website. As a result, you can avoid search engines’ penalties for these matters.
- Page Power: Siteliner detects the most prominent page of a website according to search engines.
- Broken Links: It detects any link that has been moved, changed or no longer exists. When websites have broken links, they can deteriorate the user’s experience and reduce search rankings.
- Internal Links In: It is common to add links that redirect users to any specific page. This strategy increases the importance of it. With Siteliner you can choose one specific page and check how many pages of the entire site contains links to the selected page.
- Internal Links Out: you can see how many links in any selected page are redirecting to other pages of the website.
- External Links Out: it is possible to determine how many links of any selected page contains links to external sites.
- Presentation of Cached Page: Siteliner keeps a cached version of the page that is used when it was scanned. As a result, you will be able to see any modification, if any, from the time the analysis was done.
- Multiple types of Reports: there are 3 options of reports that include Site report, Current Table, and XML Site Map.
Page Data
Page data not only shows you key info about the pages that Siteliner scanned, it also gives you a metric for each page called Page Power.
Page Power shows you how prominently the page might appear to search engines that crawl your site.
Why would some pages appear more prominent than others? Because they have more links pointing to them than other pages on the site.
In other words, Siteliner looks at internal linking.
You can use the Page Power data to remove pages that aren’t relevant any longer. Alternatively, you might want to update them with more timely info.
The Page Power metric can also give you actionable insight on good internal linking strategies. Remember, you should link to the pages that are most important to your brand.
Duplicate Content
This is where Siteliner highlights identical content found on two or more pages on your site.
Note: Siteliner distinguishes a URL that ends with a slash (“/”) as different than the exact same URL that doesn’t end with a slash.
So the report might show you that you have 100% duplicate content on two URLs but they’re really the same URL. One ends with a slash and the other one doesn’t.
The solution to that is to set a rel=canonical on one of the pages. Siteliner reads that meta tag and won’t flag the content as duplicate.
Further, the tool lists the URLs it scanned in a table. Just click on any row in the table to see the duplicate content for a specific page.
Oh, by the way: when you look at the duplicate content section of the report, you might see some of the same terminology you’ve seen when using Copyscape.
That’s for a very good reason. Remember, Siteliner is produced by the same people who made Copyscape.
Broken Links
It’s easy to make changes on your site and forget to update links accordingly. Fortunately, Siteliner will find broken links that could hurt your SEO efforts.
If the tool identifies a broken link, either create a page that redirects from that link to the right place or update the broken link on the appropriate page.
Pros (Advantages)
- Payment options through PayPal and credit cards.
- The Premium Siteliner option allows checking up to 25,000 pages.
- Siteliner is a service offered by the same creators of the plagiarism site Copyscape.
Cons (Disadvantages)
- The Free option is limited to check 250 pages of a website and 1 site can be checked only once every 30 days.
- Sometimes the scanning can skip some pages. However, the final report detects it and informs it.
- The “Current Table” report is only available in CSV format.
How Does Siteliner Work? (Conclusion)
Siteliner took a step ahead to solve the problems that don’t allow websites to rank well. It took the hidden way by analyzing links and associated issues. Despite that technical issues can be a little hard to handle, this platform makes it easy and understandable for any level of user.
How Much It Costs? (Pricing)
Siteliner has a free version. For Premium search, you need to purchase credits for which you have to pay $0.01. Each credit allows you to scan one page.
