Essentially, log files are the raw record of an interaction with a website. They are reported by the website’s server and typically include information about users and bots, the pages they interact ...

Why are log files important for SEO? For starters, they contain information that is not available elsewhere Log files are also one of the only ways to see Google’s actual behavior on your site. They ...

Log files. They're there for a reason -- to keep track of what goes on behind the velvet curtain of your operating system. When things go wrong, entries are added to those log files, so you can view ...

Want to know why your high-value pages aren’t getting indexed? Or why Google keeps crawling useless parameters over and over and over…but not your blog? Your server logs hold the answers. Yes, they’re ...

Before Vista and Windows Server 2008, if you wanted to perform detailed logging of Group Policy events beyond what you could get in the RSOP console (Resultant Set of Policy), you had to turn on the ...

Overgrown transactional log files can turn into real problems if they are not handled properly. Today SQL Server consultant Tim Chapman discusses the perils of not handling SQL Server log growth ...