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Screaming FrogThe best tool to have in your pocket, hands down.2018-11-30T16:24:54.128ZScreaming Frog is a standard tool of operation since I introduced it a couple years ago. We use it to perform crawls of sites that we are auditing for SEO, crawls of sites we have built to check for errors, both in staging and development. The project management team now uses it to QA certain implementations of tags, or other aspects on the site.,Best tool to crawl a site, hands down.
Configurable for custom data extractions.
In-depth exports for reporting.
Configurable connections to Analytics and Search Console.
Wealth of online documentation.,Exporting one report at time to CSV or XSLX can be cumbersome and time consuming.
Custom extraction requires pretty in-depth knowledge of RegEx or XPath.
Not a very visual tool.
Larges sites can take up a tremendous amount of resources (RAM, space, connection).,10,Allows for quick and easy business development audits, allowing us to generate net new income.
Saves us time in the SEO department, hours saved is money earned.
Saved a tremendous amount of time and resources across Dev and PM.,DeepCrawl,SEMRush, Conductor Searchlight, Ahrefs Site Explorer,6,2,SEO Auditing
Quality Assurance with Dev
Quality Assurance with Project Management,We have a wide range of development clients, we use the tool to check updates to sites that the dev makes through custom extraction. When the change affects many pages, this makes it considerably easier to check changes as opposed to hours spent going page by page.
For SEO auditing, I export my reports that I need from a site crawl and copy that data into a google sheet, I then use that sheet as a data source to visualize the data from the crawl. This allows us to easily create reports to clients.,Allowing for easier methods of custom extraction (intsead of writing regex or XPath) would allow us to bring this out to more users in the company.
Maybe an enhanced license to create PDFs of the stuff in the audits for use for our recurring audit program. This would allow the software to stay competitive from other tools such as SEMRush and DeepCrawl.,10,No,Price
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Third-party Reviews,I wouldn't change my mind. Screaming Frog is the best tool there is for us.,Implemented in-house,No,Change management was minimal,Training others who did not know the software how to use it. It was rather time consuming.,7,No,10,No,I have had standard actions for support, however this also classifies for support, when my company switched over to invoice billing and no longer used credit cards, I had to reach out to screaming frog for assistance. I was answered immediately and after a brief explanation of what I needed from them, it was sent over right away. I also had a problem because of wording on the invoice from my billing department. I emailed them back and it was changed very quickly and got back to my billing department without a lapse in the software usage.,A standard crawl is easy and can be accomplished by anyone
Connecting to outside APIs,Custom extraction is not easy to use without knowledge of RegEx (which I already knew) or XPath which I had to learn.
With reporting you have to export each report separately instead of one workbook created, with multiple sheets. This can get very cumbersome when you need a lot of the reporting, especially the SERP reporting.
For a beginner, it's hard to extrapolate the most important findings from your crawl.
Getting the report to visualized.,No,6Anthony DaronzioThe backbone of my SEO auditing toolset!2018-08-21T18:13:13.164ZScreaming Frog is used primarily by the account management department, however it is also used occasionally by members of the business development and/or research teams. All who use it do so as part of technical SEO audits for clients. It can specifically help us identify crawling issues, indexation issues, necessary meta data changes, etc.,Crawling client sites of up to thousands of pages. Gives you almost every tool that you need to do a proper SEO audit.
Custom extractions using CSSpath, Xpath, or Regex. I'm not even a techy, but their support section here is a huge help with the provided examples.
Customer service and support - Dan is ALWAYS very prompt to respond with helpful answers on Twitter if needed.,I sometimes feel that it takes a lot of CPU power to do more basic audits. I've heard that others use tools like DeepCrawl for very large sites for this reason.
Lately, I've been having some small issues with the search function, though in the past this has worked great so it could just be a bug. Dan and the team seem to be great at addressing these quickly!
I'd like the ability to identify URLs which exist in an XML sitemap but are not linked to within a site's taxonomy. Currently the comparison between these two lists has to be done manually, as far as I know.,10,It has allowed me to make impactful and intelligent recommendations to clients. This has in turned deepened the client relationships and led to steady ongoing ROI.
It has also allowed me to diagnose interesting technical issues for non-client sites (like Forbes) which formed the basis for very cool company blog posts.
The investment is very low - this tool does 99% of what I need for a fraction of what other industry crawlers costs. Kudos to the Screaming Frog team!,DeepCrawl and Moz,Google Drive, Ahrefs Site Explorer, Microsoft Office 2016Ari RothThe first step in building an SEO program to last2018-08-03T22:45:02.189ZScreaming Frog SEO Spider is used by the digital marketing team within the larger marketing department. It helps identify load speed, on-page SEO elements including title tags and meta descriptions, and assess technical health of website.,Measure and report on load time and response codes of pages.
Custom search can identify pages missing analytics tagging.
Export on-page SEO elements to update title tags, meta descriptions, and alt tags.,The ability to not only crawl pages for current elements but to push updates to them would be most helpful.,10,It's a positive ROI when we know certain websites are able to rank on the first page of search for specialized topics. ScreamingFrog is a key component to eliminating SEO-related shortcomings and improve our web presence overall.,SEMRush, Ahrefs Site Explorer and SpyFu,Ahrefs Site Explorer, SpyFu, Marketo, Showpad, Sitecore Web Content Management,2,2,Identifying pages with missing tracking codes
Identifying pages that load slowly or produce error results
Crawling the website for missing on-page SEO elements so a specialist can update,We used it to identify pages with duplicate meta descriptions.
ScreamingFrog helped us identify pages that lacked a tag manager.
It is used to find 404 pages on sites and any temporary redirects that need to be removed or made permanent,We can use it to identify images that are too large and causing longer load times.
ScreamingFrog helps us identify meta keywords on pages, whether they're lacking or duplicative.,10Amanda TessierScreaming Frog is The Tool Every Web Dev Needs2018-11-18T00:57:21.827ZWe use Screaming Frog as a fundamental piece of our SEO strategy. The tool empowers us to dive deeper into information we find in Google Analytics and Search Console. We use it to crawl our external sites, discover 301 redirect chains, check on SERPs, and run basic visualization reports. It is essential to our technical SEO tactics.,Quickly crawling sites with thousands of pages.
Fantastic customer support and support portal.
Great UI, very intuitive and not flashy.
Great visualizations.
Great export option which can be helpful when sending to those without access to the tool.,Updates too frequently and is sometimes unclear on what the update is for. Since I use this on my work desktop primarily, I have to go through our help desk to update. Which turns a quick process into a much more involved, time consuming endeavor.
An integration with a CMS (Drupal or Wordpress in particular) seems like a great next step.
Entry level technical SEO is easy to do. More advanced tools and reports can be difficult to find.,10,Screaming Frog is cheap, especially when considered at the enterprise level.
Speeds up the process of analyzing websites
Provides more actionable data than alternatives (even the free version),Google Search Console,Google Search Console, Yoast Wordpress SEO Plugins, EvernoteSean PomoryScreaming Frog SEO Spider is a Great Tool for Site Wide Technical SEO Auditing2018-11-09T21:54:41.451ZI've been using Screaming Frog SEO Spider for about a year now.
The tool is great for running a speedy SEO audit of an entire domain.
We got value out of the paid subscription after migrating a site over to a new URL format. It was useful for pinpointing all broken links which needed redirection.
I'd recommend the tool for anyone looking to get a bird's-eye view of there site's technical SEO health. I'd say it's good to have a basic understanding of technical SEO when using the tool. If you don't, I'm sure there are blog posts and downloaded content provided by Screaming Frog to guide your efforts.,Site wide Technical SEO analysis
Pinpointing broken links
Providing text based on page SEO details
Fast run time,Exporting features. There are good exporting features available, but when trying to export detailed information, it's hard to retrieve.,8,Positive ROI - saves a ton of time resource.,SEMRush and MozJon Kaspszak
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