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Jan 24 5 tweets 5 min read
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@Target's XML sitemap
Has 2.6M URLs with ~1M duplicates (39%)

Consistent URL structure mostly 4 dirs

5 types of pages
product
category
search
brand
store-location

Data
bit.ly/3WKbw3H
Code
bit.ly/3XB0sGH

#DataScience #advertools #SEO #Python #DataAnalytics
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Checking top category pages, we see the top 10 are mostly toys.

A more accurate approach is to count the words in those URLs, which shows that clothing and home are bigger.

We can also check the percentage of category URLs that contain those words for a different/better view
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We can easily go deeper by filtering URLs that contain "clothing", and checking what the top words are for those URLs.

We can go to sub-sub-categories by filtering for URLs containing "clothing" & "kids" for example.

You can interactively explore any combination you want.
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Product pages contain the best view on product distribution, using the same approach the top products are nothing seen yet (books)

We can see what the most used words in books are (guide, you, America).

For fun, we can also get top author first names as well.
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Search pages: /s/
These contain target search queries.

A quick manual check showed mostly empty pages (needs full verification of course)

Yet we can see what they are targeting more in those search pages.

Run your own analysis here bit.ly/3XB0sGH

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Jan 23
XML sitemap of @Apple with a quick audit/analysis

105,244 (26.2%) duplicated URLs with 45% with a mysterious parameter "fh" which mainly provides an empty page.

Data: bit.ly/3WKbw3H
Code: bit.ly/3J86xWw

#DataScience #SEO #advertools #Python

1/
Unsurprisingly /shop/ is the biggest directory (number of URLs), and we can also see what are the biggest product categories under that with a simple filter.

But what is /today/ ??

It seems they run live online events for product demonstrations and explanations

2/
Most of these ~13k pages are empty (event expired), and it's not clear why they even have them in the sitemap.

This definitely needs fixing. But we can still use the data to understand what topics they focus on in their events (iPhone, photo, art)

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Dec 27, 2022
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Auditing vs Analysis

Auditing is about inspection, and making sure things are done right, legally, and correctly. Analysis is about understanding and getting insights on the thing you’re analyzing (website, content, etc.)

An “SEO audit”, a “website audit”, a “content audit"
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Auditing is more important than analysis. It comes first. Your page has to function properly before it can be analyzed/evaluated. It tells you where potential problems are or might be. Basically, you are making sure bad things don’t happen. Auditing doesn’t inform
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the process of understanding or ideas for improvement as much. This is where analysis comes in. Using a car analogy, auditing is making sure you don’t have flat tires, engine is working fine, etc.

Analysis is looking at the historical data of someone’s trips, understanding
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