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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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The Screaming Frog Hoodies Giveaway

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...

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Screaming Frog Wins A Search Award

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...

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Panda 4.1 – the Return of the Design Sites?

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...

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Screaming Frog SEO Spider Update – Version 2.55

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...

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