Setting Up DubBot

Ready to start using DubBot at your organization? These articles outline all of the steps to get your website content inventoried, analyzed, and ready for users to access in DubBot.

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Written by Blaine Herman, Penny Kronz, Maggie Vaughan and 2 others

Getting Started with DubBot

Ready to start using DubBot? Here is an outline of the steps you will need to take to start using your DubBot account.

Written by Penny Kronz
Updated over a week ago

Sites

Site Setup

Site Setup allows users to configure crawl and test options to be performed across pages.

Written by Blaine Herman
Updated over a week ago

Site Crawler options

Written by Penny Kronz
Updated over a week ago

Ignored Paths for Specific Sites

Used to determine which folder paths will not be crawled while DubBot inventories a site.

Written by Joanie Chembars
Updated over a week ago

Best Practices: Smaller Sites vs Whole Site

There are big advantages to breaking your websites up into smaller sites, versus doing a single large crawl.

Written by Blaine Herman
Updated over a week ago

User/Group access for a Site

The Site Settings panel allows administrators to quickly assign User(s) to a site and to rule a Site into an existing Group.

Written by Penny Kronz
Updated over a week ago

Configuring the Checks performed on a Site

Update the standard checks, dictionary, dictionary language, dictionary words, flagged words, and broken links flagged for your site

Written by Penny Kronz
Updated over a week ago

Advanced Settings for Sites

Advanced Settings can be used to configure the site crawler to accommodate website server and performance needs.

Written by Blaine Herman
Updated over a week ago

Enable/Disable site

Enable/Disable refers to the Automated Crawling status.

Written by Penny Kronz
Updated over a week ago

CSV upload format

Admins can upload CSVs to ignore items from the Site & Account levels. This includes: words, links, flagged words and link paths for sites.

Written by Blaine Herman
Updated over a week ago

Remove optional, banner/popup content from displaying on webpages within DubBot

The following instructions can be used to close content sections for full websites inventoried in DubBot.

Written by Blaine Herman
Updated over a week ago

User Setup

SSO and MFA Options

Choose SSO or MFA for your login access.

Written by Maggie Vaughan
Updated over a week ago

User Setup

Create a user and set the user's account role

Written by Blaine Herman
Updated over a week ago

Abilities for each Role

The following is a summary of expected abilities per roles in DubBot

Written by Blaine Herman
Updated over a week ago

Single sign-on (SSO) Instructions

DubBot offers optional services for SSO. The following is what we'll need in order to get it set up.

Written by Blaine Herman
Updated over a week ago

Groups

Groups Overview

Groups are an easy way of filtering/restricting access to certain Sites for different Users.

Written by Blaine Herman
Updated over a week ago

Creating Groups

How to create a Group

Written by Blaine Herman
Updated over a week ago

Policies (Custom Checks)

Policies (Custom Checks) Overview

Create additional flags for added accessibility, web governance, and SEO review

Written by Penny Kronz
Updated over a week ago

Policy Library Overview

Add more specific checks to your account

Written by Lisa McWilliams
Updated over a week ago

Account versus Imported explained

DubBot offers dozens of pre built Policies. Clients are also able to make their own. The following is an explanation of the difference.

Written by Blaine Herman
Updated over a week ago

Create a Policy (Custom Check)

Steps to create a custom policy

Written by Penny Kronz
Updated over a week ago

How do I see the results of my new Policy?

Just few items to check before viewing the results of your new Policy.

Written by Maggie Vaughan
Updated over a week ago

Policies (Custom Checks) for Content Editors

Give content editors access to Policies (Custom Check) results.

Written by Maggie Vaughan
Updated over a week ago

Additional Administrative Information

Modifying an existing Site's Settings

Locating the Site Settings Panel to make changes

Written by Joanie Chembars
Updated over a week ago

DubBot's Crawler IP Address and user agent

DubBot's crawler is managed in AWS. DubBot maintains a static IP for the crawler.

Written by Blaine Herman
Updated over a week ago

What is robots.txt and why do I need to update my site settings?

Written by Lisa McWilliams
Updated over a week ago

Example Custom User Agent

Written by Lisa McWilliams
Updated over a week ago

Filtering crawler from Google Analytics Reporting & DubBot's IP Address

Filter DubBot's crawler from Google Analytics reports

Written by Blaine Herman
Updated over a week ago

Broken Link Status Codes

Every link in a website will return a status code. Typically, links with a 404 status code should be prioritized for updating.

Written by Penny Kronz
Updated over a week ago

Add a word to a Site's Dictionary from a Page View

Written by Joanie Chembars
Updated over a week ago

Add a word to a Site's Dictionary from the Site's Dashboard

Written by Joanie Chembars
Updated over a week ago

Exclude broken links reported by reason (or response code)

Set preferences for the type of link response codes that are reported

Written by Blaine Herman
Updated over a week ago

Reanalyze Pages

DubBot allows Admin users to re-analyze a page to refresh test results.

Written by Blaine Herman
Updated over a week ago

Configuring the Checks performed for the whole Account

Written by Penny Kronz
Updated over a week ago

Deep Linking

Deep linking to Content Management Systems

Link from DubBot reports directly in your CMS

Written by Blaine Herman
Updated over a week ago

Deep linking with WordPress

Deep linking in from DubBot to WordPress

Written by Blaine Herman
Updated over a week ago

Deep linking with Cascade CMS

Deep linking in from DubBot to Cascade CMS

Written by Blaine Herman
Updated over a week ago

DubBot API

Accessing the DubBot API

Written by Penny Kronz
Updated over a week ago

Query to return Site's Dashboard Statistics

Written by Penny Kronz
Updated over a week ago