15 May, 2014 by Dan Sharp
An Update On Pixel Width In Google SERP Snippets
Some of you may have read our previous post about the changes in Google’s display of search results and our own analysis of how Google truncates SERP snippets based on characters’ pixel width. In our post we explained – Google...
15 May, 2014 by Dan Sharp
Screaming Frog SEO Spider Update – Version 2.40
I am excited to announce version 2.40 of the Screaming Frog SEO spider, codenamed internally as ‘Duck Cam’. Thanks again to everyone for their continued feedback, suggestions and support. Let’s get straight to it, the updated version includes the following...
20 March, 2014 by Dan Sharp
Page Title & Meta Description By Pixel Width In SERP Snippet
As outlined in our 2.30 release notes, the Screaming Frog SEO spider now calculates the pixel width of page titles and meta descriptions and has a SERP snippet emulator in the lower window tab. Pixel width makes total sense for...
20 March, 2014 by Dan Sharp
Screaming Frog SEO Spider Update – Version 2.30
I am really pleased to announce version 2.30 of the Screaming Frog SEO spider code-named ‘Weckl’. This update includes new features that provide greater control of crawls, as well as how the data is analysed. Thanks again to everyone for...
17 March, 2014 by Dan Sharp
Negative SEO - Should You Monitor Your Backlinks?
Historically links were often either counted or ignored by Google in their scoring. However, as their algorithms evolved over the past 5 years and more recently with the introduction of Penguin in April 2012 and increase in manual actions, links...
15 July, 2013 by Dan Sharp
Screaming Frog SEO Spider Update – Version 2.20
I am delighted to announce version 2.20 of the Screaming Frog SEO spider. We have been busy behind the scenes developing some very cool new features which we hope everyone will enjoy! As always, thank you to everyone for their...
5 February, 2013 by Dan Sharp
Google Panda - How Many Actually Recover?
The original Google Panda algorithm was introduced on the 23rd of February 2011 on Google.com to reduce the visibility of ‘low quality’ sites with content identified to be a poor user experience, thin and often partially duplicated in nature. The...
30 January, 2013 by Dan Sharp
Screaming Frog SEO Spider Update – Version 2.10
Just a quick post to let you all know we have released an update of the Screaming Frog SEO spider to version 2.10. The updated version of the SEO spider has plenty of new features, which include – Save Configuration...
19 July, 2012 by Dan Sharp
When Google Gets Penalties Wrong
I wanted to share a very interesting Google penalty case that we ecountered recently. An old client who owns an ecommerce website with a multi-million pound turnover and sells electronic goods called me out of the blue a few weeks...
27 June, 2012 by Dan Sharp
Screaming Frog SEO Spider Update – Version 2.00
It’s been a little longer than usual between our SEO spider updates, so I am pleased to announce the release of the Screaming Frog SEO spider version 2.00. New SEO spider features include the following – Word count – The...