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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.

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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How To Audit Backlinks In The SEO Spider

There are plenty of reasons you may wish to audit backlinks to a website, whether it’s to check the links are still live and passing link value, they’ve been removed or nofollowed after a link clean up, or you want...

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Screaming Frog SEO Spider Update – Version 6.0

I’m excited to announce version 6.0 of the Screaming Frog SEO Spider, codenamed internally as ‘render-Rooney’. Our team have been busy in development and have some very exciting new features ready to release in the latest update. This includes the...

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Announcing The Screaming Frog Log File Analyser

I am delighted to announce the release of the Screaming Frog Log File Analyser 1.0, codenamed ‘Pickled Onions’. Since the release of the SEO Spider, we planned to build a Log File Analyser, and finally started on development last year....

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Screaming Frog 5 Year Anniversary Giveaway

It’s five years ago today that we released the Screaming Frog SEO Spider to the SEO community. It’s amazing to think how far we have come in that time, but I’d rather focus on what’s still to come, celebrate and...

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Screaming Frog SEO Spider Update - Version 5.0

In July we released version 4.0 (and 4.1) of the Screaming Frog SEO Spider, and I am pleased to announce the release of version 5.0, codenamed internally as ‘toothache’. Let’s get straight to it, version 5.0 includes the following new...

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Screaming Frog SEO Spider Update – Version 4.0

I’m really pleased to announce version 4.0 of the Screaming Frog SEO Spider, codenamed internally as ‘Ella’. We have been busy in development working on some significant improvements to the SEO Spider due for release later this year, which include...

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How To Use Wireshark With The SEO Spider

Here at Screaming Frog we occasionally get support queries from users of the SEO Spider reporting issues such as recording the wrong response code, or perhaps reporting a page to have no title or headings, when they are there when...

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Screaming Frog SEO Spider Update – Version 3.0

I’m delighted to announce version 3.0 of the Screaming Frog SEO Spider, named internally as ‘walkies’. This update includes a new way of analysing a crawl, additional sitemap features and insecure content reporting, which will help with all those HTTPS...

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10 Features In The SEO Spider You Should Really Know

I wanted to write a quick post about some of the features in our Screaming Frog SEO Spider tool, that are a little hidden away and are quite often missed, even by experienced users. Some of these are actually my...

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