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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.

The brightonSEO Crawling Clinic

For the first time last year we ran a crawling clinic at the legendary brightonSEO. The team had a lot of fun meeting everyone and chatting about crawling and technical SEO while just a little hungover from the pre-party, so...

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Screaming Frog SEO Spider Update – Version 11.0

We are delighted to announce the release of Screaming Frog SEO Spider version 11.0, codenamed internally as ‘triples’, which is a big hint for those in the know. In version 10 we introduced many new features all at once, so...

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11 Little-Known Features In The SEO Spider

The Screaming Frog SEO Spider has evolved a great deal over the past 8 years since launch, with many advancements, new features and a huge variety of different ways to configure a crawl. This post covers some of the lesser-known...

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Screaming Frog Log File Analyser Update – Version 3.0

I am delighted to announce the release of the Screaming Frog Log File Analyser 3.0, codenamed ‘Yule Log’. If you’re not already familiar with the Log File Analyser tool, it allows you to upload your raw server log files, verify...

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The brightonSEO Crawling Clinic

We’ve often been asked by customers where we are at conferences, as we don’t ever have a conference stand, or actively try and sell our software or services at events. While we don’t like to sell in this way at...

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Screaming Frog SEO Spider Update – Version 10.0

We are delighted to announce the release of Screaming Frog SEO Spider version 10.0, codenamed internally as ‘Liger‘. In our last release, we announced an extremely powerful hybrid storage engine, and in this update, we have lots of very exciting...

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Is Bing Really Rendering & Indexing JavaScript?

Historically all search engines were fairly blind to content created dynamically using JavaScript and would only crawl and index content within the initial HTML response. But times have changed, and Google, in particular, renders web pages like a browser, processing...

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Win Screaming Frog T-Shirts

It’s time for another giveway. This time you have the chance to win a very cool Screaming Frog tee. If you’re looking to keep cool this summer and proudly display your inner SEO, these are the t-shirts for you. We...

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Screaming Frog SEO Spider Update – Version 9.0

I’m delighted to announce the release of Screaming Frog SEO Spider 9.0, codenamed internally as ‘8-year Monkey’. Our team have been busy in development working on exciting new features. In our last update, we released a new user interface, in...

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Screaming Frog SEO Spider Update – Version 8.0

I’m excited to announce the release of Screaming Frog SEO Spider 8.0, codenamed internally as ‘All J’s must go’. Our team have been busy in development working on some exciting new features, so let’s get straight to it, and talk...

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