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Screaming FrogWeird name, solid SEO tool.2019-02-13T13:27:57.051ZI currently use Screaming Frog as one of the tools for managing and maintaining our company websites. I primarily use the program for doing SEO audits. I use it to verify links and find broken ones, identify content types and scripts, find duplicate content, and create XML sitemaps. Analyzing our sites allows us to detect potential SEO issues proactively and make educated decisions about site content.,Finds broken links (404 pages). Broken links hurt user experience.
Identifies pages that include meta directives like nofollow/noindex/canonical etc. Helps understand what your pages tell crawlers to do.
Get information about all of the internal and external links on my site (anchor text, links per page, etc). Helps in identifying key word choices and page weight.,Requires Java. This isn't a huge deal as many computers already have it installed, but it's yet another 3rd party component.
The free version has a crawl limit of 500 pages per site. This is fine for smaller sites, but if you're running a big e-commerce site then you'll need to pay for Pro version.
The user interface isn't very pretty. This is an analytics tool so it doesn't really have to be, but it might be helpful for improving the overall user experience.,8,It's hard to specifically identify the impact the Screaming Frog has on ROI. SEO is a continual process of implementing changes to improve site visibility. The program definitely provides key insights about site structure though.
Identifying broken links does help us improve user experience. Happy users tend to stay on sites longer.
Using the program on competitor websites does give us insight into how we can improve our own pages.,SEMRush and Moz,Notepad++, FileMaker ProJustin RoodmanScreaming Frog SEO Spider is #1 for Technical SEO Analysis2018-12-21T20:45:32.499ZWe use Screaming Frog SEO Spider to perform SEO audits for current and prospective clients. It allows us to get an all-encompassing view of the technical SEO elements of a website. I currently use only use the free version, as I find the cost prohibitive for what I use it for.,Analyzes all metadata
Character counts of all metadata
identifies missing alt text on all images
identifies all H1 and H2 headlines
identifies broken links and loops,The GUI is a little old school
No cloud version is available...desktop version only (Chromebooks are SOL)
Pricing isn't terrible...but there is no monthly option. £149.00 or roughly $190USD/yr.,9,Fantastic ROI especially if you're using the free version
Even the paid version would be worth it for more experienced SEOs
no real negative impact.,,SEMRush, Majestic SEO, SEOptimerScott RichardsonThe 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 DaronzioAn Invaluable Tool for Technical SEO2018-12-31T20:09:29.895ZScreaming Frog helps us identify pages with 404s, broken links, and canonical issues. We've used it for years to identify issues that would take significantly longer to identify without the app.,It identifies broken links to a website and helps with link reclamation.
It scans all pages on a site and provides status codes, helping identify areas that need fixing.
It helps us easily download Titles and Descriptions for an entire website. This is particularly useful for SEO.,It's a very pared down app and requires a decent amount of technical SEO expertise to fully comprehend. I don't necessarily think that's a bad thing, but it makes it difficult to understand for some first-time users.,10,While it's difficult to quantify the value Screaming Frog has provided to our business, it has been part of our SEO strategy for years, helping countless clients improve their SEO.Geoffrey HoeschEssential SEO Software2018-11-30T19:10:11.918ZScreaming Frog is great for cataloging your pages and making sure that the basic SEO elements are on all pages. When you work for a large website, it's sometimes difficult to track ALL pages and sections. It's also used when we want to crawl our clients' websites to diagnose problems that can be easily addressed and fixed.,Many data points
Accurate info
Ability to crawl pages on any website,The tool (understandably) times out after crawling too many pages.
Link metrics could be more detailed.,10,Provided invaluable information on areas of our site that have been neglected.
Helped us track down easy to fix 301 and 404 site issues
Helps us catalog pages on our site with important basic SEO data,DeepCrawl,Conductor Searchlight, Ahrefs Site Explorer, DeepCrawlKatie Goh
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