Item: Screaming Frog SEO Spider
Rating: 9
Author: Verified User

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Screaming Frog is where every site audit begins. More and more, Google cares about the integrity of a site's links, tags and page structure. Given the importance of search to our business, losing rank because of broken links and missing tags is an unacceptable loss. SF helps us make sure we're producing top-quality pages and maximizing our search potential.

Pros and Cons

Validates tags.
It helps with canonicalization.
Corrects problems with no index.
Checks internal and external links.

Screaming Frog runs locally. It would be nice to see a pure cloud-based version.
It's a very complete piece of software which means it can take a while to learn.

Return on Investment

We've completely turned around some older sites that had internal linking issues.
We've corrected issues with multilingual sites that were incorrectly tagged.

Alternatives Considered

SEMRush

Support Rating

I've had very few issues, but the help I received was quick and on point.

There's also plenty of well-produced documentation to make onboarding and training new users very fast.

Screaming Frog can be a little daunting at first and the support is particularly important for new users.

Key Insights

Do you think Screaming Frog SEO Spider delivers good value for the price?

Yes

Are you happy with Screaming Frog SEO Spider's feature set?

Yes

Did Screaming Frog SEO Spider live up to sales and marketing promises?

Yes

Did implementation of Screaming Frog SEO Spider go as expected?

Yes

Would you buy Screaming Frog SEO Spider again?

Yes

Other Software Used

SEMRush, Majestic SEO

Likelihood to Recommend

Most organizations have lots of older web content. These pages may not be up to modern standards. SF helps to quickly analyze thousands of pages for errors and bring older pages up to web standards.

Site audits start here

Overall Satisfaction with Screaming Frog SEO Spider