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Screaming Frog 5 Year Anniversary Giveaway

It’s five years ago today that we released the Screaming Frog SEO Spider to the SEO community. It’s amazing to think how far we have come in that time, but I’d rather focus on what’s still to come, celebrate and...

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HeroConf Comes To London

After 4 successful events in the US, this year was the first time that HeroConf ‘hopped across the pond’ and landed in London. As this was the first European trip for the conference it only seemed right for the Screaming...

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The Great Screaming Frog Bake Off

Today marks Macmillan’s ‘World’s Biggest Coffee Morning,’ and as we’re always ahead of the curve here at Screaming Frog, we held our bake off event earlier this week. From about 8am one by one people started sneaking into the building...

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The Books of BrightonSEO

Those of you who have attended an industry conference before will know that books regularly make an appearance within speakers’ slides and talks. While we’re often bombarded with online articles, ebooks and whitepapers in this day and age, books are...

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Screaming Frog SEO Spider Update - Version 5.0

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...

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Screaming Frog SEO Spider Update – Version 4.0

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...

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How To Use Wireshark With The SEO Spider

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...

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Screaming Frog SEO Spider Update – Version 3.0

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...

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10 Features In The SEO Spider You Should Really Know

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...

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Screaming Frog Changes For VAT In 2015

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...

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