An absolute gem for an SEO enthusiast
April 27, 2018
An absolute gem for an SEO enthusiast
Score 8 out of 10
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Verified User
Overall Satisfaction with Screaming Frog SEO Spider
We used Screaming frog to scrape faulty pages of our massive website after a switch of the operating system. We also used it to collect meta-data stats to make sure our goals were met. All pages should have an H1, H2, and appropriate title. I was in charge to make sure these conditions were met. If your company doesn't accommodate to these variables there is a chance that your website will get less traffic. Search Engines use these conditions to index your website. You have to make sure when your result turns up in a search that the potential client will be triggered to click. This way Screaming Frog can be used as a complementary tool for Google Analytics to make sure your visitors will get the best user experience possible.
- Detailed scraping of metadata from every single page of a website
- Excellent export options to convert acquired data to excel
- Integration with Search Console for detailed analysis of pages
- Allows for individual page optimisation due to extensive reports
- It has quite the learning curve. In order to use all available assets you must be experienced with Google Analytics, data export and able to analyze this data as well
- Sometimes the integration of Search Console is not exactly flawless. It's hard to find the cause of this problem and it should be easier to fix this.
- It's hard to measure ROI in the long term because it's more or less guessing what attracts organic visitors after a search engine search. However, this tool made sure we didn't miss any conditions to attract potential customer in the first place.
Screaming Frog is must have if you are into detailed analyses of your company website. There are other alternatives but the price/quality equation is simply excellent.