SEO Spider User Guide

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This user guide provides information on the Screaming Frog SEO spider software. Please follow the relevant links in the menu below for more information.

General

Crawling
Saving & Uploading Crawls
Exporting
Robots.txt
User-Agent
Memory
Cookies
XML Sitemap Creation

Configuration Options

Spider Basic Tab
Check Images
Check CSS
Check JavaScript
Check SWF
Check External Links
Check Links Outside Of Start Folder
Follow Internal’ or External ‘nofollow’
Crawl All Subdomains
Crawl Outside Of Start Folder
Ignore Robots.txt
Limit Search Total
Limit Search Depth

Spider Advanced Tab
Allow Cookies
Request Authentication
Pause On High Memory Usage
Response Timeout
5XX Response Retries

URL Rewriting
Include
Exclude
Speed
User Agent
Custom
Proxy
Mode

Tabs

Internal
External
Response Codes
URI
Page Titles
Meta Description
Meta Keywords
H1
H2
Images
Directives (Older name, ‘Meta & Canonical’)
Custom

(Lower Window)
URL Info
In Links
Out Links
Image Info

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Screaming Frog Ltd
Market Chambers,
33 Market Place,
Henley-on-Thames,
Oxfordshire,
RG9 2AA

Tel: +44 (0)1491 415070
Fax: +44 (0)1491 415071
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