Your friendly neighborhood keyword crawler
October 4th, 2007
You read many SEO guides and apply their tips to your sites, but it takes along time before you see whether your SEO campaign is effective. How do you know that a search engine can really index your site for the right keywords? That’s where Keyword Crawler comes in. This application crawls your entire site, attempting to determine your top keywords from your content. This gives web masters a better idea on how search engines see their site.
The program interface is minimalist - all you have to do is enter your site URL into a text box and click “Explore”. Depending on your settings and the size of your site, the search can take from a few seconds to several minutes. The final output is a comprehensive keyword list and a generated META tag that contains those keywords. Keyword Crawler doesn’t just list your web site’s top keywords, it also lists the internal links going to specific pages. A broken link feature even provides a list of dead links found on the page or site that was crawled. Lastly, to make your site more search-engine accessible and user-friendly, Keyword Crawler will also generate a sitemap for your site.
Overall, this application is easy to use, even for new web masters. However, using the sitemap generator requires some XML knowledge.
Keyword Crawler is a Windows app and requires Win98 or later.