Roundup: grep/awk wins with receipts

Roundup: grep/awk wins with receipts

No tooling budget, real outcomes.

→ Practitioner thread (Aleyda Solis links) — a single awk script tallying Googlebot hits per directory revealed a tag archive eating 44% of crawl on a blog. Noindexing it doubled crawl to articles.
Takeaway: one column, one count, one decision.

⭐ Pick of the week — Distilled awk crawl-share recipe — published the exact pipeline (grep Googlebot, cut path, sort, uniq -c) that surfaced the above. Runs on a 5GB log in under a minute.
Takeaway: the cheapest analysis is often the most actionable.

→ Greg Reda 'useful awk' post — not SEO, but the field-counting idioms every log analyst reuses.
Takeaway: learn the idioms once, reuse forever.