Screaming Blog
SEO & search marketing news and chatter from Screaming Frog.
28 September, 2017 by Liam Sharp
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...
18 July, 2017 by Dan Sharp
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...
3 May, 2017 by Dan Sharp
Screaming Frog Drinking Bottles Giveaway
It’s time for another giveaway. This time, you can win some very cool Screaming Frog aluminium drinking bottles. You’ve probably been told you should drink more (water), so why not keep hydrated in SEOtyle? Sorry. The large capacity (770ml) and...
12 April, 2017 by Dan Sharp
22 Ways To Analyse Logs Using The Log File Analyser
Log Files are an incredibly powerful, yet underutilised way to gain valuable insights about how each search engine crawls your site. They allow you to see exactly what the search engines have experienced, over a period of time. Logs remove...
5 April, 2017 by Dan Sharp
How To Fetch & Render (Almost) Any Site
From time to time, we’ve struggled to get access to Google Search Console quickly from a client to perform a fetch and render. Or, we’ve just wanted to perform a fetch and render on a third party site that isn’t...
27 March, 2017 by Dan Sharp
Screaming Frog Log File Analyser Update – Version 2.0
I am delighted to announce the release of the Screaming Frog Log File Analyser 2.0, codenamed ‘Snoop’. Since launch last year, we’ve released eight smaller updates to the Log File Analyser, but this is a much larger and more significant...
31 January, 2017 by Jason Lock
AdWords History Timeline Published
For those of us who have been in paid search since before AdWords was on the scene, it’s easy to forget the details about when certain “features” were released, and in what form they first appeared. For those who are...
12 December, 2016 by Dan Sharp
Screaming Frog SEO Spider Update – Version 7.0
I’m delighted to announce Screaming Frog SEO Spider version 7.0, codenamed internally as ‘Spiderman’. Since the release of rendered crawling in version 6.0, our development team have been busy working on more new and exciting features. Let’s take a look...
20 October, 2016 by Dan Sharp
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...
30 September, 2016 by Lucy Fitton-Hayward
The Annual Screaming Frog Macmillan Morning Bake Off
After the success of last year’s Macmillan Morning Bake Off, we decided to run it again this year. Not only is it an excuse to eat lots of tasty treats all day, but it obviously helps a great cause, and...
