Nice Complimentary Platform
June 28, 2018
Nice Complimentary Platform
Score 9 out of 10
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Overall Satisfaction with Screaming Frog SEO Spider
We use Screaming Frog to scan all URLs of a website. Then we parse the information off into sections: error codes, titles, meta descriptions, H1s and word count. It is then exported into Excel where we can analyze the current health of the site. This information provides us with great detail and a nice format where we can provide recommendations.
- Scans pages that we may not know exist.
- Provides a great export of information that can be manipulated into a useful document.
- Provides summaries of each area for a quick look at what elements need attention first.
- Sometimes a website is large enough that you can run out of memory. There is a way to fix that in the Screaming Frog platform, however I feel like it takes a programmer to figure out and configure the crawl. I wish there was an easy button!
- This tool is really not expensive to purchase the full version, so we have opted to renew every year. For the few times we need it, it has been completely worth the purchase.
- DeepCrawl and BrightEdge
We actually use both other options, but screaming frog provides a great download of all pages in an easy format. It is more of a complimentary tool.