Changes to Track in a Website

The topic about a website’s changelog is one of the interesting threads in the WebmasterWorld! The changelog has a vital role in SEO. Some may find it unimportant, but I believe this should be one of the things that we should be checking out once in a while.


Here are some ideas to track taken from the WebmasterWorld:

1. Every change to robots.txt


2. Every change to htaccess (or Internet Services Manager in IIS)


3. Site-wide template changes (especially menu changes)


4. DNS and hosting changes


5. New outbound links


6. Ad purchases and run-times


7. Last time all outbound links were checked to see what was on the other end


8. Last time site was checked for "poison" words


9. Change in titles, especially the home page


10. Server updates (especially reboots or outages)


11. New inbound links (one way or not)


12. Backup of files you have changed


13. Log of expense for each website


14. Config files (Apache, MySQL, php, etc.)


15. Firewall ruleset


16. All changes to all pages are logged one page per day

If you have some things to add, please write it in a form of a comment.