What SEM’s Are Saying About The Screaming Frog SEO Spider
Dan Sharp
Posted 29 November, 2010 by Dan Sharp in Screaming Frog, Screaming Frog SEO Spider
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
— Claire Carlile (@clairecarlile) November 23, 2010
@screamingfrog #SEO Spider > Xenu Link Sleuth
— Gennady Lager (@glager) November 23, 2010
test driving the #SEO crawl too from @screamingfrog – so far, looks like a lot of useful information – impressed w/ speed and UI
— JP Sherman (@jpsherman) November 23, 2010
@screamingfrog info is so much more complete than Xenu. Would like crawl depth option and ability to upload a list of URLs
— Richard Fergie (@RichardFergie) November 23, 2010
@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.
— Don Rhoades (@TheGonzoSEO) November 24, 2010
@screamingfrog "The spider allows you to export key onsite SEO elements (url, page title, meta descriptions, headings etc) to Excel" – FTW!
— Andy Blackburn (@andyblackburn) November 23, 2010
A great all in one tool to scan your website from an SEO perspective. http://bit.ly/e7MRad
— Peter Brooke (@peterbrooke) November 25, 2010
Trying out the @screamingfrog SEO Spider for the first time… First impressions are good ones!
— Pete Handley (@ismepete) November 26, 2010
I am chuffed with this tool. Fixed many errors on my sites. http://bit.ly/e7MRad #screamingfrog #SEOtool
— Etienne Beneke (@etiennebeneke) November 25, 2010
@screamingfrog I will, just have to finish this 37K crawl :)
— Branko Rihtman (@neyne) November 24, 2010
This looks to be a very handy desktop based SEO spidering program – https://www.screamingfrog.co.uk/seo-spider/
— Matthew Diehl (@matthewdiehl) November 24, 2010
@screamingfrog love the new tool, would be great if the images tab showed alt tags too though!
— Sarah C (@SarahCarling) November 23, 2010
@screamingfrog dude, I love the Pause/Resume option. Awesome!!
— Branko Rihtman (@neyne) November 24, 2010
I love xenu: thanks @marcelison: Xenu, the sequel :) https://www.screamingfrog.co.uk/seo-spider/ #FTW”
— Kate Gamble (@kategamble) December 17, 2010
Xenu, the sequel :) https://www.screamingfrog.co.uk/seo-spider/ #FTW
— Marc Elison (@marcelison) December 17, 2010
@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.
— Corey McNeil (@coreymcneil) December 17, 2010
Whoa this SEO Spider tool is kinda amazing – https://www.screamingfrog.co.uk/seo-spider/
— MyCool King (@iPullRank) December 16, 2010
@brianchappell @Screamingfrog is my favorite crawler tool. Made short work of an audit that used to take me weeks.
— Don Rhoades (@TheGonzoSEO) December 16, 2010
We need more tools like this. RT @brianchappell: Handy little SEO / URI crawler http://bit.ly/eVEkKA from @screamingfrog
— Joe Hall (@joehall) December 16, 2010
Handy little SEO / URI crawler http://bit.ly/eVEkKA from @screamingfrog What tool(s) do you use to diagnose quick on-site SEO issues?
— Brian Chappell (@brianchappell) December 16, 2010
Wow the @screamingfrog SEO Spider is brilliant. Fast results with a pause feature. Highly recommended for any search marketer #seo #sem
— Anthony Piwarun (@apiwarun) December 16, 2010
Holy crap what a great #SEO analysis tool. http://bit.ly/dFFoKe | Thanks @screamingfrog
— ColumbusGEEK (@columbusgeek) December 16, 2010
testing out @screamingfrog SEO Spider. Brilliant tool, recommend it for quick, SEO analysis from an on site perspective. #SEO
— Mike Lemon (@MikeLemon) December 16, 2010
@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
— Diana Grayhat (@SeoBuff) December 13, 2010
@screamingfrog its a brilliant tool, it deserves it!
— Yousaf Sekander (@ysekand) December 17, 2010
excellent tool for serious onpage #seo : screaming frog seo spider http://bit.ly/g1IeQ4
— Udo Kempen (@UdoKempen) December 17, 2010
@screamingfrog amazing software. We here at @matanmedia just got a licence – shaving hours off on-site audits. SEOSpider FTW :) CC: @neyne
— Ari Nahmani (@AriNahmani) December 23, 2010
Great how @screamingfrog includes user feedback to improve the SEO spider tool – great work Dan!
— Robert Nicholson (@RobBothan) February 8, 2011
Forget about XENU, Screaming Frog SEO Spider is an awesome tool: http://bit.ly/fmBSOc
— Jean Hugues Bretin (@jhbretin) February 8, 2011
I love the Screaming Frog SEO Spider https://www.screamingfrog.co.uk/seo-spider/ Must use #free tool for all webmasters. #seo #tools
— Tadeusz Szewczyk (@onreact_com) February 15, 2011
The quickest way for me to extract all URL's in a website is via @screamingfrog. Super simple and easy tool. Full marks.
— Etienne Beneke (@etiennebeneke) February 17, 2011
@screamingfrog That's awesome thanks Dan! Btw it's an awesome tool – any more/updates on the way?!
— Joanna Butler (@JoannaButler) February 18, 2011
Best crawler for SEO purposes I've tested so far : Screaming Frog SEO Spider http://t.co/BIFQdlj Good job here Guys! Thx!
— Mickael Boudni (@frenchxoogler) February 22, 2011
— William Vicary (@williamvicary) February 21, 2011
@screamingfrog Really like the tool, great work.
— David Sottimano (@dsottimano) February 25, 2011
#ff the tools that have been all kinds of useful to me this week: @screamingfrog @Crowdbooster & @slickplan thanks muchly
— Dean Cruddace (@DeanCruddace) February 25, 2011
@screamingfrog really impressive tool Been playing with free version and the time saving is worth the small investment to upgrade
— Karen Fovargue-Moore (@kfovargue) February 24, 2011
@screamingfrog Ok thank you for delivering a better tool than Xenu (SEO Spider) for #SEO to use for site auditing – http://bit.ly/ewjUFT
— Austin Kane (@austinkane2) February 24, 2011
@echwa Was talking to @matthopson tonight – told him @screamingfrog has to continue the awesome work they started! Gr8 tool.
— Joanna Butler (@JoannaButler) February 23, 2011
100% Essential RT @supernaut76: Damn good tool! RT @neyne SEO Spider Review – Xenu on SEO steroids http://bit.ly/hoAtHa cc @screamingfrog
— JP Sherman (@jpsherman) February 25, 2011
Great news for MAC users..The Screaming Frog SEO Spider is now available for the Mac – http://bit.ly/gBMjWq via @screamingfrog
— Prachi D (@PrachiDeshpande) March 1, 2011
RT @ViperChill: @screamingfrog Let me know when you have an affiliate program. Love your tool <- me first!
— Alex Moss (@alexmoss) March 1, 2011
@screamingfrog Think I've died and gone to heaven. Love the tool guys.
— Gareth Rees (@ClearSEO) March 1, 2011
Mac version of the @screamingfrog SEO spider is out! http://t.co/3QO67JQ #onpage #seo #genius ;-)
— Jonathan Schikowski (@schikowski) March 1, 2011
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)
— Simon Goble (@simongoble) March 2, 2011
If you haven’t tried out the Screaming Frog SEO Spider, why not give it a trial now?
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 – https://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
a Great tool for web development and SEO companies just about to buy the license to have the freedom of unlimited analysis.
Thank you guys for making this. I can do a lot of checks on the current team that manages to analyse this.
One of my guest bloggers wrote about your seo tool and bring me to your service. Very impressive for what screaming frog can do for my website seo. Thanks a lot.
hi, is it possibile to allow nofollow crawling with screamingfrog’s free version?
I must say that the seo tool frog has become a boxcutter always present for seo. Thank you