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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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10 SISTRIX Features I Love

I have a confession to make – I love SISTRIX. SISTRIX, for the uninitiated, is an SEO tool which (amongst other things) plots website visibility based on ranking data, and gives a ton of useful and actionable insight into website...

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Interactive Content Launch Checklist - 12 Things to Do Before You Send It to the Client

The time has finally come. You’ve poured your blood, sweat, and tears into your most recent content piece, and it’s ready to be packaged up and sent to the client to be pushed live. After a few final checks and...

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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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Content Ideation: Tools & Techniques

Creating content these days is tough. Historically, when us content marketers find something that works well we tend to pursue them relentlessly, to the point of reaching diminishing returns (infographics are a case in point).

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How to Dodge Bullet(Point)s and Nail Your First SEO Talk

For a digital industry there’s much to be said for how much we all love an in-person lecture. Maybe it’s a collective longing for those rosy university days, or perhaps it’s just the buzz (and the beer) found at many...

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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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Canonicals – The Good, The Bad, & The Ugly

Canonical URLs can be marked up as a link element within the head of a page, or by rel=”canonical” HTTP headers to signal to search engines which page is the “preferred” URL to rank – usually in situations where content...

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Google Search Console robots.txt Tester Inconsistencies

We’ve had a few customers notice that our robots.txt tester tool, in version 8.1 of the SEO Spider, gives different results than the robots.txt tester in Google Search Console . This variation in behaviour is around the handling of non-ASCII...

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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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