Tutorials
For the SEO Spider
Getting Started Guide
Our beginners guide to getting started using the SEO Spider. Including initial set-up, crawling, and viewing reports and issues discovered.
How To Find Broken Links Using The SEO Spider
Learn how to crawl your website and find broken links (404 errors), view which pages link to them, the link text, and export in bulk.
Site Architecture & Crawl Visualisations Guide
Visualise site architecture and internal linking to help communicate ideas and reveal underlying patterns that are harder to uncover in data, and spreadsheets.
How To Compare Crawls
Compare crawls to see how data, issues and opportunities have changed over time to track progress and monitor site health.
How To Crawl JavaScript Websites
Render web pages using the integrated Chromium WRS to crawl dynamic, JavaScript rich websites and frameworks, such as Angular, React and Vue.js.
How To Crawl Large Websites
Crawl large websites by switching to database storage mode, increasing memory and by configuring the crawl to extract the data you need.
How To Crawl A Staging Website
Find out how to crawl a staging or development website, considering robots.txt, authentication, and the SEO Spider configuration.
How to Run the Screaming Frog SEO Spider in the Cloud
Learn how to run the Screaming Frog SEO Spider in the cloud, using Google Compute Engine.
How to Work in Teams Using the SEO Spider
Find out the best ways to work collaboratively when using the SEO Spider.
How To Find Missing Image Alt Text & Attributes
Find pages that are missing image alt text and alt attributes, preview the images and bulk export the source pages and images to be corrected.
How To Use List Mode
Upload a list of URLs using 'list mode', and control what other elements are crawled, such as external links, or images for laser-focused crawling.
How To Debug Missing Pages In A Crawl
Find out why pages might be missing in a crawl, and how to debug and analyse why they are not being crawled.
How To Audit Hreflang
Hreflang is a simple concept, but incredibly difficult to get right at scale, and often implemented incorrectly. Find out how to audit them!
What Is Link Score?
Find out more about our Link Score algorithm which calculates the relative importance of URLs based on the internal linking of a site.
How To Use The SEO Spider For Broken Link Building
Scale broken link building by using the SEO Spider to crawl a list of seed URLs, and discovering broken external links on them for outreach.
Crawling Password Protected Websites
Crawl websites that require a login, using web forms authentication using our inbuilt Chrome browser.
