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| -# SEO Macroscope |
| 1 | +# SEO MACROSCOPE |
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| -**This project is still very much a work-in-progress, expect lots of bugs and missing features.** |
| 5 | +**This project is still very much under development, expect bugs and unimplemented features.** |
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| -## Synopsis |
| 7 | +## SYNOPSIS |
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| -SEO Macroscope is a website link checking tool, with some technical SEO functionality. |
| 9 | +**SEO Macroscope** for Microsoft Windows is a website link checking and scanning tool, with some technical SEO functionality. |
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| -## Installation |
| 11 | +## INSTALLATION |
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| -There is no installer for SEO Macroscope ready quite yet. The C# solution may be opened and run using SharpDevelop 5 or Visual Studio; it may also compile and run using MonoDevelop. |
| 13 | +The most recent installer may be found under the project releases area on GitHub at: |
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| -As soon as the project has reached a suitably stable point, I shall release an installer. |
| 15 | +> [https://github.com/nazuke/SEOMacroscope/releases](https://github.com/nazuke/SEOMacroscope/releases) |
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| 17 | +The C# solution itself may be opened and run using SharpDevelop 5 or Visual Studio; it may also compile and run using MonoDevelop. |
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17 | 19 | Open the solution in SharpDevelop or Visual Studio, ensure that the references are satisfied, set build to **Debug**, compile and run.
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| -## Usage |
| 21 | +## USAGE |
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21 | 23 | Enter the URL of the website to scan into the **Start URL** field, and then click the **Start** button.
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23 | 25 | Depending on the size and responsiveness of your website, it may take a while to complete the scan.
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| 28 | +## FEATURES |
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| 30 | +There are still going to be many bugs in this version, and many features and functions remain to be implemented. |
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| 32 | +However, this beta version is functional enough to be used for many link checking tasks right now. |
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| 34 | +### Basic functionality includes: |
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| 36 | +* Scanning all links on one or more websites. |
| 37 | +* Reporting broken, redirected, and other types of issues. |
| 38 | +* Reporting metadata about each found URL. |
| 39 | +* Generating an HrefLang Matrix, for multilingual websites. |
| 40 | +* Isolating scans to URL subsets. |
| 41 | +* Extraction and report of telephone number and email links. |
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| 43 | +### SEO functionality includes: |
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| 45 | +* Set and report acceptable word, character, and pixel lengths for titles. |
| 46 | +* Set and report acceptable word, character lengths for descriptions. |
| 47 | +* Report on titles, descriptions, keywords, and headings. |
| 48 | +* Optionally generate keyword occurrences across pages and the entire site. |
| 49 | +* Scan and extract metadata for PDFs. |
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| 51 | +### Reports may be exported to Excel format. Currently, these include: |
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| 53 | +* A scan overview. |
| 54 | +* An HrefLang Matrix of multilingual sites. |
| 55 | +* Page contents, including titles, descriptions, keywords, and headings. |
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| 57 | +More functionality will be added in the future. |
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