What SEM’s Are Saying About The Screaming Frog SEO Spider

Dan Sharp

Posted 29 November, 2010 by 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!

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.

22 Comments

  • seonut 13 years ago

    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?

    Reply
    • screamingfrog 13 years ago

      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

      Reply
    • David Schneider 11 years ago

      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.

      Reply
  • Tilman 13 years ago

    Congratulations on a good job, Dan. And I like the video too. We should have a few beers if you ever come to Berlin.

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    • screamingfrog 13 years ago

      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.

      Reply
  • Ephricon 12 years ago

    Great tool guys! The crew here at Ephricon loves how efficiently it runs. Many thanks!

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  • Wolf Dalone 12 years ago

    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.

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    • screamingfrog 12 years ago

      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

      Reply
  • John Doyle 11 years ago

    Just found this tool, tried it out and it’s looking fantastic. Good work.

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  • Matt Hepburn 11 years ago

    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

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  • Ford 11 years ago

    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!

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  • Tesfa 11 years ago

    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?

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    • screamingfrog 11 years ago

      You have to download and install the SEO spider to be able to crawl your website.

      Reply
  • Stef 11 years ago

    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…

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  • HenryV 11 years ago

    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

    Reply
  • Vibhu Satpaul 11 years ago

    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.

    Reply
  • susan wowe 10 years ago

    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.

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  • simone 10 years ago

    hi, is it possibile to allow nofollow crawling with screamingfrog’s free version?

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  • Paolo 9 years ago

    I must say that the seo tool frog has become a boxcutter always present for seo. Thank you

    Reply

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