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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 features - 1) Google Search Analytics Integration You can now...

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 a number of powerful new features we've wanted to release...

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 viewed in a browser. We often get asked if it's...

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 migrations! As always thanks to everyone for their continued support,...

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 favourite features in the tool and have saved me countless...

I’m writing this post on the eve of 2015, as I prepare to update 28 VAT rates for each country in the EU as they enter the New Year. We first found out about the EU VAT changes on the 26th November, just over a month before they came into...

It's four years ago that we released the Screaming Frog SEO Spider to the SEO community and as a way to celebrate the anniversary and thank everyone for their support, we wanted to giveaway some Screaming Frog hoodies. How To Win We have 20 hoodies to giveaway and all you...

Matt Hopson and I felt pretty relaxed glugging drinking red wine while chatting and watching everyone put on their best 'DiCaprio face' for various UK Search Awards on Thursday evening at the Troxy in London. The team and I hadn't entered Screaming Frog for a Search Award this year, but...

On Friday Google announced that they slowly started rolling out the latest Panda update, dubbed 4.1 by Search Engine Land, earlier in the week. This latest 'improved' iteration of the Panda algorithm has affected around 3-5% of search queries, and according to Pierre Far the update rewards high quality small...

I don't usually write (a new) blog post for smaller intermediary updates which are mainly for bug fixes. However, on this occassion we have decided to release a supporting post as version 2.55 of the Screaming Frog SEO spider includes a small feature update alongside a number of bug fixes,...