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Dan Sharp is founder & Director of Screaming Frog. He has developed search strategies for a variety of clients from international brands to small and medium-sized businesses and designed and managed the build of the innovative SEO Spider software.

Is Bing Really Rendering & Indexing JavaScript?

Historically all search engines were fairly blind to content created dynamically using JavaScript and would only crawl and index content within the initial HTML response. But times have changed, and Google, in particular, renders web pages like a browser, processing...

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Win Screaming Frog T-Shirts

It’s time for another giveway. This time you have the chance to win a very cool Screaming Frog tee. If you’re looking to keep cool this summer and proudly display your inner SEO, these are the t-shirts for you. We...

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Screaming Frog SEO Spider Update – Version 9.0

I’m delighted to announce the release of Screaming Frog SEO Spider 9.0, codenamed internally as ‘8-year Monkey’. Our team have been busy in development working on exciting new features. In our last update, we released a new user interface, in...

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Screaming Frog SEO Spider Update – Version 8.0

I’m excited to announce the release of Screaming Frog SEO Spider 8.0, codenamed internally as ‘All J’s must go’. Our team have been busy in development working on some exciting new features, so let’s get straight to it, and talk...

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Screaming Frog Drinking Bottles Giveaway

It’s time for another giveaway. This time, you can win some very cool Screaming Frog aluminium drinking bottles. You’ve probably been told you should drink more (water), so why not keep hydrated in SEOtyle? Sorry. The large capacity (770ml) and...

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22 Ways To Analyse Logs Using The Log File Analyser

Log Files are an incredibly powerful, yet underutilised way to gain valuable insights about how each search engine crawls your site. They allow you to see exactly what the search engines have experienced, over a period of time. Logs remove...

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How To Fetch & Render (Almost) Any Site

From time to time, we’ve struggled to get access to Google Search Console quickly from a client to perform a fetch and render. Or, we’ve just wanted to perform a fetch and render on a third party site that isn’t...

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Screaming Frog Log File Analyser Update – Version 2.0

I am delighted to announce the release of the Screaming Frog Log File Analyser 2.0, codenamed ‘Snoop’. Since launch last year, we’ve released eight smaller updates to the Log File Analyser, but this is a much larger and more significant...

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Screaming Frog SEO Spider Update – Version 7.0

I’m delighted to announce Screaming Frog SEO Spider version 7.0, codenamed internally as ‘Spiderman’. Since the release of rendered crawling in version 6.0, our development team have been busy working on more new and exciting features. Let’s take a look...

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Screaming Frog Stickers Giveaway

We’ve had quite a few requests for Screaming Frog stickers over the past year, so we have put together a small giveaway to thank everyone for their support and help improve boring looking laptops. There will be (at least) 250...

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