A Swiss Army knife for SEO Professionals
December 18, 2024

A Swiss Army knife for SEO Professionals

Christopher Johnston | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with Screaming Frog SEO Spider

As an SEO professional it's like a Swiss Army knife for crawling the sites I have to optimize. It allows me a lot of customization in what parts of the site I want to crawl and how I want to crawl it. For instance, I can install it on a server and have it run from there and not tie up one of my machines when I'm crawling a large site, say 100,000 urls

Pros

  • website crawling
  • showing me which sites have duplicate titles
  • showing me server codes for all the pages I'm scanning

Cons

  • It has a huge learning curve.
  • There are some hiccups to navigate if you are working with client-side JavaScript. Some tutorials would be nice. This took me days to sort out.
  • Because it's so affordable I recommend it on every job. It's something I rely on 100%
  • It saves me tens to hundreds of man hours depending on the size of the client site/s
The learning curve can be substantial and the documentation is not the best. I ended up having to reach out to other SEOs in a private Slack group to get assistance.

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

I've had a few sites where there were a lot of duplicate page titles. Screaming Frog SEO Spider let me sort them in a way that let me determine which pages needed new titles and which I could ignore. If you are working on a very large site, maybe a million urls, or in that neighborhood, you need a more robust solution.

Screaming Frog Feature Ratings

SEO
10.0
Site audit / diagnostics
10
SEO Channels ()
Not Rated
SEO Platform & Account Management
7.5
Multi-domain support
10
Integration with web analytics tools
5

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