{"id":20739,"date":"2023-04-26T09:17:21","date_gmt":"2023-04-26T09:17:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dinorank.com\/en-us\/blog-seo\/?p=176"},"modified":"2025-06-05T04:42:17","modified_gmt":"2025-06-05T08:42:17","slug":"sitebulb-tool-tutorial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dinorank.com\/en-us\/blog-seo\/sitebulb-tool-tutorial\/","title":{"rendered":"Sitebulb Tool Tutorial"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

If you want to improve a website’s ranking in search engines, sooner or later you’ll need to carry out an SEO audit. <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

This task, which may seem quite complex, fortunately can be simplified by using tools like Sitebulb<\/strong>, a website crawler that is gaining popularity among users.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Have you heard of Screaming Frog?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Well, Sitebulb is a similar application, but with a set of features designed to make it easier for us to interpret the results<\/strong> and make informed decisions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If you want to learn all that Sitebulb has to offer, I invite you to join me on a comprehensive guide of its functionalities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Sitebulb: What it is and How This SEO Crawler Works.<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Sitebulb is an SEO tool that falls under the category of crawl maps, a type of software that performs a website crawl<\/strong> to verify its response.<\/p>\n

Its functionality involves emulating the behavior of search engines<\/strong> to conduct a deep analysis of your website’s architecture and generate a series of reports that help you improve your page’s rankings in search results.<\/p>\n

With Sitebulb, you can easily carry out a comprehensive SEO audit of a website, whether it’s for improving your own pages or for those of your clients.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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What is an SEO audit? <\/div>
An SEO audit involves conducting a comprehensive analysis of a website to determine which aspects need to be corrected or improved in order to enhance its visibility in search engines.<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Who uses Sitebulb?<\/h2>\n

Sitebulb is a crawling tool designed specifically for the SEO community.<\/strong><\/p>\n

It caters to a range of users, from small freelancers who are just starting out and want to improve the rankings of their niche websites, to agencies that manage websites for multiple clients.<\/p>\n

What’s great about Sitebulb is that it considers all types of users, which is reflected in how it presents its results and how its developers take care to document all sections of the application<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

It’s a tool created by SEOs for other SEOs to audit their websites.<\/p>\n

Now, the question is, is Sitebulb a useful tool for you?<\/strong><\/p>\n

That’s what I want you to discover through this tutorial.<\/p>\n

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Features of Sitebulb Website Crawler<\/h2>\n

Do you want to get straight to the point and get a quick idea of everything Sitebulb has to offer?<\/p>\n

Don’t worry, below I’ll mention what I believe are the features that make it a software worth considering for your SEO strategy<\/strong>:<\/p>\n

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  • <\/i> Unlimited project creation.<\/li>\n
  • <\/i> JavaScript interpretation of pages during crawling.<\/li>\n
  • <\/i> Visual representation of your website structure.<\/li>\n
  • <\/i> User-friendly and easy-to-understand reports.<\/li>\n
  • <\/i> Clear and organized improvement actions categorized by type.<\/li>\n
  • <\/i> Generation of comprehensive and easy-to-understand PDF reports.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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    Getting Started with Sitebulb.<\/h2>\n

    Now that you know the most important aspects that Sitebulb offers, it’s time to take a closer look at all of its features.<\/p>\n

    To do so, there’s nothing better than getting down to business and putting it into practice.<\/p>\n

    Next, I’ll explain how to get started with the tool and create your first project<\/strong>, using the DinoRANK website as an example once again.<\/p>\n

    Let’s dive in.<\/p>\n

    Downloading and installing the desktop tool<\/h3>\n

    To use Sitebulb, the first thing you need to do is download the installer from their website<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

    Yes, you read that right. Sitebulb is a desktop application<\/strong> that you need to install on your computer.<\/p>\n

    This point may seem strange to newcomers to SEO, as nowadays web applications that run in the cloud through the browser are more common than traditional installers.<\/p>\n

    But if you’ve been in this field for a while, you’ve probably used other similar tools like Screaming Frog, which you also need to download and install on your PC to run them.<\/p>\n

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    The fact that it is desktop software means that its performance will depend on the features of your computer<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

    It’s neither good nor bad, but something you should keep in mind when using it.<\/p>\n

    Also, it’s important to note that currently, there are only versions available for Windows and Mac. In this aspect, web applications have an advantage.<\/p>\n

    However, since Sitebulb requires minimal processing and storage resources on external servers, its license prices are quite affordable.<\/strong><\/p>\n

    And that is definitely a very positive point.<\/p>\n

    Sitebulb and its Free Trial<\/h2>\n

    When evaluating any paid software, it’s a good idea to use a trial version to decide if it’s right for us. Sitebulb makes it easy by offering a free 14-day license<\/strong> to evaluate all of its features.<\/p>\n

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    To get the license, you simply need to provide them with an email address. In exchange, they will plant a tree for you, helping to offset the carbon footprint that using their software may generate.<\/p>\n

    It seems like a good deal \ud83d\ude03.<\/p>\n

    Setting up our first project<\/h2>\n

    The first time we run the tool, after downloading and installing it on our computer, it displays a screen to log in to the Sitebulb website.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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    We can either use an existing account or create a new one. In this case, I’m going to choose the latter option, which will give me access to the 14-day free trial.<\/p>\n

    Once I’ve registered my account and logged in, I can see a list of all my projects<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

    Of course, since it’s a new account, it’s empty. So let’s create a new project.<\/p>\n

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    On the project creation screen, we must complete the following fields:<\/p>\n

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    • <\/i> Project name<\/strong>: we put a representative name so that we can identify it later.<\/li>\n
    • <\/i> Starting URL<\/strong>: this is the URL from which the crawler will begin its tracking process. For this tutorial, I’m going to use the DinoRANK blog URL, as I’m only interested in analyzing that section of the website.<\/li>\n
    • <\/i> Audit type<\/strong>: we can choose between Standard (crawls the entire website) or Sample (only crawls a representative part of the website to get a general idea of its state).<\/li>\n
    • <\/i> Crawler type<\/strong>: depending on the crawler type we choose, we’ll be indicating whether we want to process the pages’ JavaScript (HTML Crawler) or not (Chrome Crawler). We choose yes, as we want to analyze whether search engines can correctly interpret the information.<\/li>\n
    • <\/i> Device<\/strong>: we decide whether the response that our website offers for each URL is the desktop or mobile version.<\/li>\n
    • <\/i> Crawl outside the directory<\/strong>: this option appears when you configure a directory in the starting URL. As we have indicated a second level of URL (\/blog\/), we must specify whether the crawler should crawl pages that are outside that directory or not.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

      In addition, we can configure some advanced options:<\/p>\n\n\n

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      • <\/i> User-Agent<\/strong>: with this parameter, we configure how the crawler identifies itself to our server, through the HTTP request headers.<\/li>\n
      • <\/i> Language<\/strong>: the default language with which the crawler will make requests. It is important to indicate this if our website is multilingual.<\/li>\n
      • <\/i> Cookies<\/strong>: whether we want the crawler to store cookies. It is not usual, but you will need to mark it if your website requires certain cookies to provide a correct response.<\/li>\n
      • <\/i> Authentication<\/strong>: for websites that require a username and password to access.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

        When we press the button to continue, Sitebulb will perform some checks to see if it can access and crawl the website and, when finished, it will show us a screen to select the options for our website audit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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        Here we have several sections with a multitude of aspects that we can configure, but to not make this part too extensive, I will only comment on the most relevant ones:<\/p>\n\n\n

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        • <\/i> Audit Data<\/strong>: we can choose which reports we want to be generated from the analysis of crawler data.<\/li>\n
        • <\/i> Google Analytics and Google Search Console<\/strong>: Here we can connect our Google accounts to obtain more information regarding organic search traffic and visits received.<\/li>\n
        • <\/i> Crawler settings<\/strong>: among other things, we can control the crawler speed by setting limits that will allow us to not overload our computer or the server where our website is hosted.<\/li>\n
        • <\/i> Ignore Hints<\/strong>: if we are not interested in receiving warnings about some of the aspects analyzed in the different reports, we can individually deactivate them in this section.<\/li>\n
        • <\/i> Scheduling<\/strong>: if we want, we can schedule the crawler to not run immediately after configuring the project, but on a specific date or periodically.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

          Finally, once we have reviewed all the configuration, our project will be created.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

          If we have not specified a specific schedule, when we confirm our options, the crawler will start crawling at that moment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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          Depending on your computer’s configuration, the size of your website, and other tasks you may be performing on your PC, this process will take more or less time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

          In our example, for the DinoRANK blog, it took about 15 minutes to complete the entire operation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

          You can either watch the screen and see the progress of the crawl in real-time or minimize the window and wait for it to finish.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

          In any case, once it’s finished, it will display the results on the screen, and you can access all the audit reports.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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