Screaming Frog - A Go-to Technical SEO tool
December 30, 2019
Screaming Frog - A Go-to Technical SEO tool
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Overall Satisfaction with Screaming Frog SEO Spider
Our organization specializes in marketing and website audits. Screaming Frog is the first thing we fire up when investigating a website, be it our client or the competition. This way we immediately see how a website is perceived in the eyes if Google, what pages are properly indexed or not, title and meta tags and even Google Analytics data.
Screaming Frog is the perfect diagnostics tool for any website auditor and a starting point for any digital marketing campaign.
Screaming Frog is the perfect diagnostics tool for any website auditor and a starting point for any digital marketing campaign.
- Website crawling - see any website the way search engines see it.
- Technical SEO - find out which pages have difficulties being indexed and improve alt tags, canonical tags, redirects, Schema.org, sitemaps, etc.
- Onsite SEO - improve title tags, header tags, description tags, etc.
- Exporting data - not the best way of naming the files you export, also you cannot export graphs that are generated in the sidebar.
- Crawling large websites - it takes a lot of memory and takes a lot of time (sometimes days), they could consider creating a SaaS for these cases.
- Doesn't crawl content so no data regarding duplicate or similar content is generated.
- Increased Conversions, therefore increased Return on Investment.
- Increased targeted traffic which translates to increases sales.
Our company also uses Website Auditor from the SEO PowerSuite by LinkAssistant and it's a great tool with a lot of fancy features and even an IA (information architecture) visualization which shows you how your website looks and how your pages interconnect.
Screaming Frog is a more technical tool which can be configured to suit specific needs and crawl just the things you want it. They both run from your computer and you can configure Screaming Frog to crawl any website and pretend to be any search engine you want it to be. With Website Auditor, you have a set amount of options, but you can configure a proxy should you need one. These two tools complement each other and I wouldn't necessarily give advantage to either one over the other.
Screaming Frog is a more technical tool which can be configured to suit specific needs and crawl just the things you want it. They both run from your computer and you can configure Screaming Frog to crawl any website and pretend to be any search engine you want it to be. With Website Auditor, you have a set amount of options, but you can configure a proxy should you need one. These two tools complement each other and I wouldn't necessarily give advantage to either one over the other.
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