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Useful Excel Tips for SEO & Website Auditing
1. Kill me if these Excel Sheet Tips
don’t help you in SEO
Ketan Raval
ketan@letsnurture.com
2. Why We Need Expertise in Excel Sheet
for SEO?
• We all know SEO is all about reporting,
analysis, data research and a more about
planning. Without Spreadsheet SEO People
cant imagine life , can they?
• My These tips can make life easy for seo
expert.
• Even if you are not an expert in excel ..using
these few tricks will surely help you in
managing your day to day seo activities.
• It is very helpful in preparing Reporting,
Analysis and in Site Audit
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3. Main Excel Tips
• Filtering
• Sorting
• Freeze Pane
• Removing Duplicates
• Trimming Domain ( Extract Domain link
from long URL)
• Preparing Duplicate URL Report
• Domain Name Extraction
• Conditional Formatting for improving
Link Building efforts.
I am not going to just tell you that what
these function can do but I will explain how
you can use it for SEO Purpose in different
Cases.
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4. Sorting
• Sorting is very helpful while you are having records with Page Rank
, Backlink Count, Page Authority.
• Sort Competitor link profile with Page Rank or Page Authority before
starting link building.
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5. Filtering
• Filtering will help in site audit & link building
• It helps in Finding common page
titles, descriptions, keywords, Errors during website audit.
• During link prospecting it can help in finding “specific type” of links
with your link profile.
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6. Freezing Pane
• During Site Audit and Link Prospecting we need to traverse
through thousands of rows, Freezing Pane will help in keeping
‘concentration’ on.
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7. Removing Duplicates
• Remove Duplicates helps in 2 things
1) it remove duplicates which can help in building final report for
customer
2) if rows are scattered and have blank rows in between , remove
duplicates will also remove blanks
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8. Proper()
Will make your text first word of your text Capital.
Where to Use?
– Site Audit
– Page Title Suggestion
– H1 Suggestions
9. Concatenate()
• Will merge cell text in to one
Where you can use it?
- Building K/W List - Content Ideas
- Anchor Text Variation - Website Audit
10. Text To Column
• Text To Column -will convert text in to columns according to formula you set
• Where to Use
• Very Useful in Category / Subcategory / Product Division
• Can help in Blog categories.
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11. IfError & Search
• IfError returns Value if specified formula throws error
• Search returns no of character from specified string is found
• Where to use?
• Checking Huge List and finding required links
Ex iferror(search(“.co.uk”,A1),”Non UK)
This will help to identify non uk and uk domains…
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12. Extract Domain Name
This is important for everyone in SEO how to extract domain from long url ?
Left(ColumnName,Find(“”,A1,8))
If you want to add “ http:// “ on urls which has not “ http://
=IFERROR(SEARCH("http://",ColumnName),"http://"&ColumnName)
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13. Conditional Formatting
• To Mark duplicate Record ‘RED’ from link building red.
• Can mark “blog” links “forum” links RED .. Ha? It ll help to find link
prospects from huge report right?
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14. End of Function ()
• You can stop going further .. Last few slides
are about me and my stupid team.. You can
save your time by not knowing about us.
No I can’t spam my twitter url everywhere…
15. Who We are?
• We are bunch of people from India
,spending little time on {SEO,Social
Media , Link Building, Web
Design, Infogrpahics , Android Apps}
..
• Trust me very little time
• And after that ??
17. We believe in using brain .. Nothing
can beat it..
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18. Need More Ideas ???
if you want more ideas or you think you want to give feedback for this
shity shit.. You can always contact me here..
ketan@letsnurture.com
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