Screaming Blog
SEO & search marketing news and chatter from Screaming Frog.
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...
7 September, 2016 by Dan Sharp
How To Audit Backlinks In The SEO Spider
There are plenty of reasons you may wish to audit backlinks to a website, whether it’s to check the links are still live and passing link value, they’ve been removed or nofollowed after a link clean up, or you want...
22 August, 2016 by Paudy Heal
How To Get More Accurate Search Volume Data In Google Keyword Planner
You’ll have likely noticed some big changes to the Google Keyword Planner tool recently – namely that it now groups together the search volume data for many similar keyword variants. For example, if you research ‘car warranty’ and ‘car warranties’...
19 August, 2016 by Patrick Langridge
Digital Henley - SEO Personalisation Presentation
Rewind a few weeks ago, on a sweltering evening in South Oxfordshire, Redberry Digital ran the fifth incarnation of their successful Digital Henley event at Henley’s Red Lion Hotel. I was kindly invited to speak on the broad topic of...
21 July, 2016 by Dan Sharp
Screaming Frog SEO Spider Update – Version 6.0
I’m excited to announce version 6.0 of the Screaming Frog SEO Spider, codenamed internally as ‘render-Rooney’. Our team have been busy in development and have some very exciting new features ready to release in the latest update. This includes the...
13 July, 2016 by Daniel Cartland
How To Analyse Your Ideas To Find Killer Content
Finding content that will garner authoritative links at volume is, on paper, an easy task. Simply think of an interesting content idea that is relevant to your client, find the right people to get in contact with, sell them your...
13 June, 2016 by Patrick Langridge
How Accurate Are Website Traffic Estimators?
If you’ve worked at an agency for any significant amount of time, and particularly if you’ve been involved in forecasting, proposals or client pitches, you’ve likely been asked at least one of (or a combination or amalgamation of) the following...
23 May, 2016 by Mark Porter
Super Quick Content Gap Analysis
We haven’t been using Sistrix for all that long at Screaming Frog, though we’re fast becoming one of their biggest fans. We usually approach ‘all in one tools’ with an air of scepticism, as while they may cover all of...
20 May, 2016 by Euan Brock
Google Running a Global Test On Their .com Domain
Over the past few days we have noticed Google playing around the look of SERPs on their .com domain, which was picked up by our very own Dan Sharp yesterday. After carrying out a series of tests it looks like regardless...
