Screaming Frog SEO Spider reviews

It's a great software for website optimization

Opmerkingen: It's a good software to use for website optimization. I link it because of its popularity and performance quality. Little adjustments can make this tool superb.

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While this software lacks some advanced functionalities, however, it remains one of the top-notch website analysis and technical SEO tools that I've worked with. I like it because it's user-friendly and provides a comprehensive website analysis feature which provides a set of tools that collect data on various SEO aspects and helps for further fixing such as broken links, meta tags, duplicate contents, and others. This software is able to collect a large amount of data on the website including page titles, headings, URLs, meta descriptions, codes, and many more which easily get exported for further analysis. This provides a more effective and easy way to deal with performance-related issues the website might be experiencing. In addition to being very smart, it offers expanded customization settings that provide ease, convenience, and extra flexibility to configure the scrawl depth, ignore certain URLs, limit scrawl to just some specific sections on the website, and more. It's a great choice for website optimization and ultimately my number one recommendation.

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The cost of getting a license can be very high, especially for small businesses with low or limited budgets. There is no direct support which could potentially be problematic in cases where the user needs urgent assistance. It still lacks some advanced functionalities compared to similar tools - but, it's not a great deal.

Best Tool for Technical SEO Audit

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Screaming Frog gives end-to-end technical SEO suggestions and errors in One Dashboard. Errors like Crawl errors, internal link errors, broken links, meta characters length, alt attributes can able to fix with the help of Screaming Frog.

Minpunten:

Its Good For Technical Seo but we have to look for another tool for Keyword Research, competitor analysis, and backlink. it would be great if they include other SEO tools

A big leap of faith if paying

Opmerkingen: Although it surpasses its competitors in terms of the amount of information displayed, I don0t like having to start from scratch, or for it to crawl what it shouldn't - which puts you over the 500 url limit... even on a small site.

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There are so many features - most of which are available in the free version

Minpunten:

As far as I could see - there was no way to only crawl the links I provide. I could also not locate a way to save the progress to check on another day, meaning I have to start from scratch every time. This, however, wouldn't be an issue in the paid version as far as I can see

Best Value for Product in This Space

Opmerkingen: When looking for an option to assess client sites, I need SEO software that works consistently and without bugs. It's also helpful that it's affordable compared to the other services offering a similar scraping of SEO data from a website. Given that it's a flat annual fee, I find that far superior to the high monthly costs. And as noted, it just works. If you're an SEO professional, there will be no real learning curve to use it.

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The software works exactly how it's intended to work, and the layout is intuitive. Once you've assessed a website, the output of links, metadata, word counts, and headers is all dead simple to understand—and even more, it's dead simple to sort the details as needed.

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I wouldn't say that the interface is either attractive or sophisticated. It's looked exactly the same for many, many years. It's not flashy, but it easily displays the data you need, so it's a small compromise that you don't even really notice.

Best Tool for Crawling; Tech SEO Must-Have

Opmerkingen: - works exactly as advertised
- best crawl tool on the market; multiple crawl setting to test security and site structures
- precise reporting and native download of data
- Sitemap management tool works well; very useful for larger site management with over 5K pages/types

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- easy to use and configure - reliable output of detailed lists of errors, issues, and optimization ideas - segmented reporting allows experienced users to zero in on specific issues - Sitemap.xml tool is top-notch and solves issues for large site implementations

Minpunten:

- the interface looks dated; learning curve to know where to find different views and data - needs to up updated regularly (not really a con -- users need to adapt) - limited documentation in the tool (need to consult the website for Knowledgebase)

Cost-effective solution with no sacrifices

Opmerkingen: Couldn’t be happier. With a little time invested in learning, we have a highly productive tool set at a steal of a price.

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It can do just about anything you need from a crawler, and at a fraction of the cost of other top tools. Interface is straightforward and simple.

Minpunten:

There’s a lot in the tool, so finding each part and learning it takes time. CSV exports for large sites are huge - an excel or other compressed version would be ideal.

Best value tool on the market - Its true!

Opmerkingen: Easy to use from the first start with a strong learning curve. In fact often saved us a ton of work!

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Excellent Tool, which we use already for years. Good price for value relation! We use it for various Use Case and the constant updates with new feature make screaming frog to a fix part in our processes

Minpunten:

Nothing in fact. I cant think of a negative thing.

Amazing Tool for Site Audits!

Opmerkingen: I personally love it and use it most for site audits and checking the improvement in my projects.

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Screaming Frog SEO Spider is great for digging deep into your website's SEO health. It helps you find broken links, duplicate content, and other issues easily. You can customize the settings to fit your needs and the data is presented in a way that's easy to understand, with charts and graphs.

Minpunten:

It can be a bit of a power hog on your computer, especially when crawling big sites. Also, if you're new to SEO tools, it might take a bit to get the hang of it. And while there's a free version, the full features come with a price tag, which might not fit everyone's budget.

The only must have tool for an SEO

Opmerkingen: This is "the tool". Combine this with Search Console and Analytics and you have everything you need.

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Being able to easily crawl a website and having everything handled for you with and obscene amount of customization options is incredible. It doesn't matter if you are a newbie of a pro, SF has you covered.

Minpunten:

Sincerely, loving everything so far. The recent updates have been amazing.

Screaming frog - best crawling tool

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Easy to use, good connectors, does not crash and give you cool functionalities

Minpunten:

sometimes data with GSC is skewed or not matching

Great SEO audit tool

Opmerkingen: It has been great.For 99.9% of my clients, it works like a charm.I can uncover broken links and other SEO issues.It does a great job on the page speed.I love the API integrations.

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It works great to uncover any potential SEO issues with a website.I have used it with large and small sites - works amazing. Clear reports.Easy to use.

Minpunten:

It does not have the key word rank tracking and back link tracking that some of the more expensive tools have. No big deal.I wish it did local SEO

Great tool, not for SEO beginners

Opmerkingen: Very good tool that I'd recommend for SEO specialists and professionals, less for beginners.

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Its crawler is very good, you can easily find duplicates, 404s, and so on. I have to add that you're provided with great support if needed. I found it to be one of the best tools I've tried in SEO so far.

Minpunten:

The interface is difficult to understand at first. I work for the most in PPC and I have knowledge of SEO, so I was able to navigate it, but I'll admit it hasn't been a smooth process. I can imagine that someone completely new to this world would get lost pretty soon.

Great value, rock solid SEO tool

Opmerkingen: Overall the tool is excellent, great value for a crawler than is very intuitive and will produce a starting point for any SEO strategy. No rival tool really compares for that price point. Any SEO should strongly consider a purchase.

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Screaming frog is extremely simple to use. Simply provide the URL to begin crawling from and the software will provide a full report of issues the website may be facing from meta data to errant redirects. The layout is simple to follow and the language used to title issues is very accessible.

Minpunten:

The software is not ideally suited to very large websites (like ecommerce sites for example), the bigger the website the slower the crawl setting needs to be to avoid errors or pages not crawled, but this can be very slow to produce a report.

Best SEO Crawler & Very Cheap!

Opmerkingen: Screaming Frog is the most powerful technical SEO tool. If you know to use to in an optimal way then it can help you do very well when it comes to SEO.

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Screaming Frog is one such tool that can crawl your website like Google bot and help you identify technical errors. These errors are very important if you want to rank well for SEO. Each of these errors are well classified into multiple buckets.

Minpunten:

The tool freeze at times and becomes non operational but this is due to heavy crawl logs. They should plan for an online version of the tool.

My go to tool for page analysis

Opmerkingen: This tool lets you enter a URL for any website and click start to get some useful results. Within a minute or less, Screaming Frog spits out a list of every page on the site with information you can analyze to make sure it is optimized for SEO such as page titles, header tags and status codes. You can also use it to dig into competitor websites to see how you might beat them.

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My favorite feature of Screaming Frog is that you can analyze a competitor site to view there internal linking structure and possibly find ways to beat them in rankings. This tool also has a powerful feature that lets you find broken links on your own website. This includes both internal and external links from pages that may no longer exist or where moved.

Minpunten:

Scream Frog lacks the visuals of other modern software which can make it a bit challenging to view. It looks and behaves like a backend database which is fine for most who use it. But unless you are a pro user, you may have to massage the data a bit to find what you need.

Must Have Tool + Great Value

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Screaming Frog is able to help me find broken links, audit our many redirects, find any issues with our meta data, and so much more. It's great value for the price. The integration was super simple, nothing to do except download and install.

Minpunten:

I don't have much bad to say about this product. They've made improvements to their user guides which was a previous pain point. The UX is a bit clunky but not that important.

Must-have tool for SEO and website owners

Opmerkingen: I can't imagine my work without this tool. It worth every dollar. Hope these guys will continue to do their work the same way.

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The vast number of detailed reports I can get with this software. I can check almost anything into my websites. An export tool is used by me often. It really helps to mix Screaming Frogs reports with reports from other tools. Api usage is simple, you can start using it literally in two clicks.

Minpunten:

Haven't met any disadvantages. Do they exist?

A powerful crawler (and free for smaller sites)

Opmerkingen: I use Screaming Frog to crawl larger sites in order to retrieve internal link data, on-page data (like title tags, descriptions, H1's, word count, etc... It crawls sites really quickly and being able to export the data makes it easy to put together audits and client reports.

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My favorite thing about Screaming Frog is that it's free up to a certain number of pages. Working with non-enterprise level sites myself, I get an incredible crawler for free. The thing I like most are probably Screaming Frog's internal linking and site crawl visualizations. So refreshing after living in spreadsheets for most of the day.

Minpunten:

I think the design and UI could probably be better and more intuitive. It's not terrible, but there's definitely room for improvement. I'd also love to be able to connect it to some other softwares and reports (I'm sure there's a way to make it happen, but nothing out-of-the-box that I'm aware of).

Must have tool for all SEOs

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the tool crawls the whole website including its structure and gives me a good overview of all relevant data like metas, URLs, broken links etc.

Minpunten:

the user interface is oldschool and can be confusing for beginners at the beginning. but with explanatory videos and research, you can quickly learn the ropes.

The most powerful SEO tool for technical optimization

Opmerkingen: Couldn't do properly my SEO job without it. For a serious SEO, it is a must-have tool.

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Lots of features, always updated with changes in SEO landscape. You can use it for scraping, find hard to see technical issues, runs faster and can manage very efficiently resources in your machine when you are processing big websites (over a million urls).

Minpunten:

Some help on the software itself could be useful (actually all support and tutorials are on its website), and some visualizations options can take too much time to load.

Awesome product for technical SEO

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This tool is a must in the SEO industry. It does exactly what you want it to do without any unnecessary features. It is fully customizable, which allows you to crawl any website, even the most complex.

Minpunten:

The tool is not very ergonomic, but its basic interface allows you to find what you are looking for quite easily with a little determination.

Best tool for crawling every page of your site for SEO work!

Opmerkingen: Positive overall - it's always one of the first tools I download when I start a new marketing role just to get a baseline for where things are at and what needs to be optimized.

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I love how quickly it gets me what I need - complete meta data crawls for every page of my site. It spits out a nicely formatted spreadsheet that I use to drive all of my optimization across our entire site.

Minpunten:

I can't stand how it only allows the first 500 pages on the free tier. Not a problem for smaller sites, but if you have a ton of pages and sub-pages, it'll be really frustrating to not be able to crawl them all.

Every SEO should use this tool

Opmerkingen: Screaming frog has allowed me to take a lot of super laborious manual tasks and essentially automate them. It's taken my SEO to another level

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Screaming Frog is THE tool. I literally can't think of a single task that this tool can't do/support. Ridiculously cheap compared to other SEO tools on the market.

Minpunten:

The UI is pretty ho hum, and there's a pretty steep learning curve. Those are honestly pretty minor gripes. I have to dig deep to think of any negatives

Best SEO Spider For Your Website

Opmerkingen: But If you can use its data properly, your website will get a huge boost in Google's rankings.

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Need to find broken link, Site Visualisations, Review Meta Robots any many more? you need to screamingfrog. this is the best seo spider for your money making website. i love to audit my website with screamingfrog. Because it's show enough data of my website that's i need to improve my website.

Minpunten:

I think the newcomers may be a little embarrassed to use it, which happened to me in the first time use.

Best Crawler for Manual SEO Audit

Opmerkingen: Overall, I am really happy using the tool for conducting SEO audits. It provides 360-degree status of the website health and suggests solutions.

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Screaming Frog is one of the best tools for auditing and crawling the website for finding the technical seo bottlenecks. It is easy to use, simple, yet powerful. There are different aspects to audit your site from using the software that includes technical and non-technical such as content, metadata, redirects, canonicals, etc. Truly useful.It can also be integrated with Google Search Console, Analytics, Semrush, and other tools for more powerful audit and data extraction.Visualization of structure and crawling path is just fab!

Minpunten:

It may require a lot of data and sometimes can be sluggish as the whole operation is carried by the software on your pc.