Sitemap url scraping isn’t just a technical task -it’s a powerhouse tool for SEO. Extracting URLs from your competitors’ sitemaps, can help you learn their publishing frequency, discover topics they focus on, and uncover gaps in your own content strategy. Here I have outlined three efficient methods for scraping competitor sitemaps.
Between February and May 2024, the Digitalonian team helped a SaaS accounting software company grow from 619 to 1,184 organic keywords, nearly doubling their keyword presence. Organic traffic rose from 300 to a peak of 1,100 visits per month and later stabilized at 900. This was driven by in-depth keyword analysis, SERP comparisons, and optimized anchor text strategies.
I came across a nostalgic story about a long-standing personal website started by an IT professional in 2008 that made me realize that the death of the world wide web as we know it, might be just around the corner. It began as a vanity project, a common trend when many maintained personal websites. Over…
Since the rollout of Google’s Helpful Content Update (HCU), I’ve been nurturing a theory about SEO practices, particularly search engine first content. Imagine a website where the bulk of its pages are crafted around exact match keywords pulled from tools like AdWords, Google Autosuggest, Ahrefs, Ubersuggest, and Answer the Public—essentially, what many affiliate sites are…
