Overall Satisfaction with Screaming Frog SEO Spider
When doing SEO for any of our websites, I like to start by using Screaming Frog to crawl the site. This gives me a starting point to examine meta data, see how discoverable the pages are on the website, and build the sitemap for submission. This is especially useful on web platforms that don't have their own sitemap generator.
- Sitemap building.
- Site crawling.
- The UI is a bi confusing, especially for the uninitiated.
- Though very customizable, default settings can cause server issues due to high traffic.
- Using the free system keeps costs low for small shops or companies with a small SEO budget.
- When the system is free, your only cost is labor, which means you can have some pretty great ROI.
Screaming Frog has a free version, so it competes with the paid programs (like Moz) solely in the fact that it can be used without incurring a budget line item. Compared to many other programs that also offer free scans, Screaming Frog is fast and much more customizable. Since it lives on your hard drive, you don't need to worry about site/server outages for a SaaS.
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