29
Nov
What SEM's Are Saying About The Screaming Frog SEO Spider
Since we released the Screaming Frog SEO Spider last week we have had a massive positive response from the search marketing community.
So we thought we would put together a quick list of some of the feedback we have received!
Having a love affair with @screamingfrog 's seo spider tool. Digging your friendly user interface >> check it http://bit.ly/e7MRad
@clairecarlile
Claire Carlile
test driving the #SEO crawl too from @screamingfrog - so far, looks like a lot of useful information - impressed w/ speed and UI
@jpsherman
JP Sherman
@screamingfrog info is so much more complete than Xenu. Would like crawl depth option and ability to upload a list of URLs
@RichardFergie
Richard Fergie
@screamingfrog the export option made my title audit of 2000+ pages go from a 2 week headache to get down to business in 10 mins.
@TheGonzoSEO
Don Rhoades
@screamingfrog "The spider allows you to export key onsite SEO elements (url, page title, meta descriptions, headings etc) to Excel" - FTW!
@andyblackburn
Andy Blackburn
A great all in one tool to scan your website from an SEO perspective. http://bit.ly/e7MRad
@peterbrooke
Peter Brooke
Trying out the @screamingfrog SEO Spider for the first time... First impressions are good ones!
@ismepete
Peter Handley
I am chuffed with this tool. Fixed many errors on my sites. http://bit.ly/e7MRad #screamingfrog #SEOtool
@etiennebeneke
Etienne Beneke
This looks to be a very handy desktop based SEO spidering program - http://www.screamingfrog.co.uk/seo-spider/
@matthewdiehl
Matthew Diehl
@screamingfrog love the new tool, would be great if the images tab showed alt tags too though!
@SarahCarling
Sarah Carling
I love xenu: thanks @marcelison: Xenu, the sequel :) http://www.screamingfrog.co.uk/seo-spider/ #FTW”
@kategamble
Kate Gamble
@screamingfrog taking the SEO Spider out for a run. I have got to tell you this is pretty straight forward. You've got a home run.
@coreymcneil
Corey McNeil
Whoa this SEO Spider tool is kinda amazing - http://www.screamingfrog.co.uk/seo-spider/
@iPullRank
MyCool King
@brianchappell @Screamingfrog is my favorite crawler tool. Made short work of an audit that used to take me weeks.
@TheGonzoSEO
Don Rhoades
We need more tools like this. RT @brianchappell: Handy little SEO / URI crawler http://bit.ly/eVEkKA from @screamingfrog
@joehall
Joe Hall
Handy little SEO / URI crawler http://bit.ly/eVEkKA from @screamingfrog What tool(s) do you use to diagnose quick on-site SEO issues?
@brianchappell
Brian Chappell
Wow the @screamingfrog SEO Spider is brilliant. Fast results with a pause feature. Highly recommended for any search marketer #seo #sem
@Apiwarun
Anthony Piwarun
Holy crap what a great #SEO analysis tool. http://bit.ly/dFFoKe | Thanks @screamingfrog
@columbusgeek
ColumbusGEEK
testing out @screamingfrog SEO Spider. Brilliant tool, recommend it for quick, SEO analysis from an on site perspective. #SEO
@MikeLemon
Mike Lemon
@screamingfrog Thanks for 4 your SEO lovely tool - it stripped out loads of Metas and titles for me in no time - sweet. http://bit.ly/fxfBhy
@SeoBuff
Diana Grayhat
excellent tool for serious onpage #seo : screaming frog seo spider http://bit.ly/g1IeQ4
@UdoKempen
Udo Kempen
@screamingfrog amazing software. We here at @matanmedia just got a licence - shaving hours off on-site audits. SEOSpider FTW :) CC: @neyne
@AriNahmani
Ari Nahmani
Great how @screamingfrog includes user feedback to improve the SEO spider tool - great work Dan!
@RobBothan
Robert Nicholson
Forget about XENU, Screaming Frog SEO Spider is an awesome tool: http://bit.ly/fmBSOc
@searchandreach
Jean Hugues Bretin
I love the Screaming Frog SEO Spider http://www.screamingfrog.co.uk/seo-spider/ Must use #free tool for all webmasters. #seo #tools
@onreact_com
Tad Chef
The quickest way for me to extract all URL's in a website is via @screamingfrog. Super simple and easy tool. Full marks.
@etiennebeneke
Etienne Beneke
@screamingfrog That's awesome thanks Dan! Btw it's an awesome tool - any more/updates on the way?!
@JoannaButler
Joanna Butler
Best crawler for SEO purposes I've tested so far : Screaming Frog SEO Spider http://t.co/BIFQdlj Good job here Guys! Thx!
@frenchxoogler
Mickael Boudni
#ff the tools that have been all kinds of useful to me this week: @screamingfrog @Crowdbooster & @slickplan thanks muchly
@DeanCruddace
Dean Cruddace
@screamingfrog really impressive tool Been playing with free version and the time saving is worth the small investment to upgrade
@kfovargue
Karen Fovargue
@screamingfrog Ok thank you for delivering a better tool than Xenu (SEO Spider) for #SEO to use for site auditing - http://bit.ly/ewjUFT
@austinkane2
Austin Kane
@echwa Was talking to @matthopson tonight - told him @screamingfrog has to continue the awesome work they started! Gr8 tool.
@JoannaButler
Joanna Butler
100% Essential RT @supernaut76: Damn good tool! RT @neyne SEO Spider Review – Xenu on SEO steroids http://bit.ly/hoAtHa cc @screamingfrog
@jpsherman
JP Sherman
Great news for MAC users..The Screaming Frog SEO Spider is now available for the Mac - http://bit.ly/gBMjWq via @screamingfrog
@PrachiDeshpande
Prachi D
RT @ViperChill: @screamingfrog Let me know when you have an affiliate program. Love your tool <- me first!
@alexmoss
Alex Moss
Mac version of the @screamingfrog SEO spider is out! http://t.co/3QO67JQ #onpage #seo #genius ;-)
@schikowski
Jonathan Schikowski
PC or a Mac? It doesn't matter any more! The [awesome] @screamingfrog SEO Spider now runs on both! http://bit.ly/gBMjWq (via @matthopson)
@simongoble
Simon Goble
If you haven’t tried out the Screaming Frog SEO Spider, why not give it a trial now?
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.
The tool is awesome!! Yes, it blows Xenu away. However, the downfall…sorry… but there are no documentation that explains what each of the columns mean. For example, what does Level mean in the Internal & External tabs?
Hey SEOnut,
Thanks for the kind comments. Apologies regarding the lack of documentation, we are working on a better user guide as we speak.
With regards to your query, level means – depth of the page from the homepage or start page you crawl from (number of links or ‘clicks’ away from the start page).
Hope this helps.
Thanks,
Dan
I agree with Dan. The tool looks impressive. But what to do with the results, ie, what do they mean and what action do they call for? For example, under the External tab, I show the following types of results:
blank, found, FOUND, moved, moved permanently, Not Found, OK, See Other
There is no explanation that I can find as to what these mean and what action they call for if any.
The tool was built for SEO’s who will know what these http responses mean I am afraid.
But you can find more info here -
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_HTTP_status_codes
Cheers.
Congratulations on a good job, Dan. And I like the video too. We should have a few beers if you ever come to Berlin.
Thanks for stopping by Tilman. Really appreciate the kind comments.
Xenu is legendary and a real inspiration for us.
A beer would be good, the same goes if you’re ever in London! You can always reach me at dan@screamingfrog.co.uk.
Cheers.
Great tool guys! The crew here at Ephricon loves how efficiently it runs. Many thanks!
Not sure I got this. What’s the depth? Does it scrape until all links on a domain are done or just 1st and 2nd level as in page and links on it.
Thanks.
Hi :-)
The SEO spider crawls all links on the domain you input, until it cannot find anymore.
But if you wanted to just crawl at a depth of 1 or 2, you can configure that within the spider as well.
Cheers.
Dan
Just found this tool, tried it out and it’s looking fantastic. Good work.
Wow guys, this is just amazing, I just got off the phone with you. I love the fact that there is a txt list mode, so I can crawl backlinks as well as my On Page elements.
Just great
LOVE this tool! I work as analyst/optimizer/strategist for a slash and burn “link renter”. Its really nice to have a tool that provides me with the information that usually takes several separate tools/steps. Worked out it saves me around 30mins on a medium site audit.
Off to pitch the boss!
I like to check the broken link for my website http://www.tesfa.com but it ask to download the file, is there any way I can check online webbase?
You have to download and install the SEO spider to be able to crawl your website.
Used the tool to check on my website (ca. 500 URL’s).
Halfway my website stopped working, and my hosting provider called me there is a DDOS attack on my server from my own IP.
What I could understand is that the tool did not reply to my server, so my server kept waiting for 5 secs times the 400 pages it already looked trough. Total blackout for the complete server! (Or white actually..)
For me a major issue…
Hi Stef,
Your hosting provider called you after 250 requests from the spider? That’s impressive ;-)
Less impressive is their server set-up – As standard the spider will crawl at just 5 threads, which is pretty slow.
Most robust servers shouldn’t have a problem, but you can slow the crawl rate in the settings – http://www.screamingfrog.co.uk/seo-spider/user-guide/configuration/#11
Thanks,
Dan
Love this tool. Used the free version for a long time, but decided to purchase licence. Should have done this a year ago!
Would be great if you could open up an affiliate program as I’m always promoting you and could have made a few ££ by now.
Nice one.
HenryV