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    • prima-253509
      prima-253509 last edited by

      I am looking for tool suggestions that assist in keeping track of problem urls, the actions taken on urls, and help deal with tracking and testing a large number of errors gathered from many sources.

      So, what I want is to be able to export lists of url's and their problems from my current sets of tools (SEOmoz campaigns, Google WM, Bing WM,.Screaming Frog) and input them into a type of centralized DB that will allow me to see all of the actions that need to be taken on each url while at the same time removing duplicates as each tool finds a significant amount of the same issues.

      Example Case:

      SEOmoz and Google identify urls with duplicate title tags (example.com/url1 & example.com/url2) , while Screaming frog sees that example.com/url1 contains a link that is no longer valid (so terminates in a 404).

      When I import the three reports into the tool I would like to see that example.com/url1 has two issues pending, a duplicated title and a broken link, without duplicating the entry that both SEOmoz and Google found.

      I would also like to see historical information on the url, so if I have written redirects to it (to fix a previous problem), or if it used to be a broken page (i.e. 4XX or 5XX error) and is now fixed.

      Finally, I would like to not be bothered with the same issue twice. As Google is incredibly slow with updating their issues summary, I would like to not important duplicate issues (so the tool should recognize that the url is already in the DB and that it has been resolved).

      Bonus for any tool that uses Google and SEOmoz API to gather this info for me

      Bonus Bonus for any tool that is smart enough to check and mark as resolved issues as they come in (for instance, if a url has a 403 error it would check on import if it still resolved as a 403. If it did it would add it to the issue queue, if not it would be marked as fixed).

      Does anything like this exist? how do you deal with tracking and fixing thousands of urls and their problems and the duplicates created from using multiple tools.

      Thanks!

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      • deltasystems
        deltasystems last edited by

        I think you're looking for Microsoft Excel 😉

        You might try an issue tracker like Redmine. Beyond that, no, sounds like you would want a custom tool, since there isn't enough demand for this kind of thing.

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        • prima-253509
          prima-253509 @deltasystems last edited by

          Maybe I don't fully appreciate the power of excel 🙂 but what I am envisioning seems to require more than what excel can provide.

          Thanks for the suggestion though. I will think about it some more.

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