Technical SEO & Servers: Deep Dive Discussion

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Are you passionate about server tech and technical SEO? This discussion is for you!

We’re diving deep into the technical side of SEO, covering topics like:

Crawling & Indexing – How search engines process and store your content
Server Configurations – Nginx vs. Apache, LiteSpeed, and more
Log File Analysis – Understanding bot behavior & detecting crawl inefficiencies
CDN & Caching Strategies – Speeding up site performance for better rankings
Renderability & JavaScript SEO – How Google processes dynamic content
Cloud Hosting & Edge SEO – Optimizing for Core Web Vitals & modern architectures

Whether you're dealing with server migrations, log file audits, or handling Googlebot issues, this is the place to share strategies and insights.

Drop your questions, experiences, and pro tips below! Let’s talk Technical SEO & Servers!

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[lucian.harhata]

I use Screaming Frog Log Analyser to analyse log files.
But I had to go through GBs of log files for enterprise clients.

So my quick way to get only the good stuff is to keep only the Googlebot server log lines.

1. Download your server log files (usually a .log filetype)
2. If you are on Win, use Git Bash for Win https://git-scm.com/downloads/win
If you are on Mac or Linux, just use terminal
3. go to the folder where you have the file > right click anywhere > Open Git Bash here
4. type this command:

grep -E 'Googlebot' log_file.log > output_log.log

5. this command will remove all the lines expect "Googlebot" ones.

You can do similar commands using specific IP ranges for Googlebots if you want to be even more specific (maybe someone used a user-agent as Googlebot and was not the real Googlebot).

So from a file that has GBs, you can end up with smaller MBs ones, and you can import this easily into Screaming Frog Log Analyser.

 

[lucian.harhata]

Another tip for Server Logs, either Enterprise clients or not: ask your developer to send you only Server Logs that contain specific IP ranges for Googlebots.
This can be scheduled to be uploaded into S3 or other cloud services.

This is the easier way vs above if you don't have the dev resources to get the cleaned data.