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SEO & search marketing news and chatter from Screaming Frog.
3 September, 2019 by Patrick Langridge
How to Scrape Google Search Features Using XPath
Google’s search engine results pages (SERPs) have changed a great deal over the last 10 years, with more and more data and information being pulled directly into the results pages themselves. Google search features are a regular occurrence on most...
15 August, 2019 by Mark Porter
The Do's and Don'ts of Chasing for a Link
It’s happened to all of us. You bag another piece of coverage for your client’s content piece on a top-tier publication, which you’re ecstatic about. However, after a quick scroll through your elation is suddenly offset by a small twang...
8 April, 2019 by Richard Lawther
Reviving Retired Search Console Reports
Since I started my journey in the world of SEO, the old Google Search Console (GSC) has been a mainstay of every campaign I’ve worked on. Together, we’ve dealt with some horrific JavaScript issues, tackled woeful hreflang implementation, and watched...
5 March, 2019 by Dan Sharp
Screaming Frog SEO Spider Update – Version 11.0
We are delighted to announce the release of Screaming Frog SEO Spider version 11.0, codenamed internally as ‘triples’, which is a big hint for those in the know. In version 10 we introduced many new features all at once, so...
12 February, 2019 by Oliver Brett
Learn To Crawl: SEO Spider Training Days
On the 24th of January SEOs gathered in London for Screaming Frog’s inaugural SEO Spider Training Event. Attendees flew in from far-flung places such as France, Germany, and even… Cornwall. (If you’re British you’ll appreciate just how far away that...
8 February, 2019 by Richard Lawther
SEO Spider Companion Tools, Aka ‘The Magnificent Seven’
From crawl completion notifications to automated reportig: this post may not have Billy the Kid or Butch Cassidy, instead, here are a few of my most useful tools to combine with the SEO Spider, (just as excitin). We SEOs are...
16 January, 2019 by Ben Fuller
Google Grants Account Suspended – The Next Steps
If your Google Ad Grants account has been unexpectedly suspended, this article will help you through the process of getting it back up and running in as little time as possible, as well as providing preventative measures that will keep...
8 January, 2019 by Dan Sharp
11 Little-Known Features In The SEO Spider
The Screaming Frog SEO Spider has evolved a great deal over the past 8 years since launch, with many advancements, new features and a huge variety of different ways to configure a crawl. This post covers some of the lesser-known...
14 December, 2018 by Daniel Cartland
Screaming Frog 2018 - A Year In Review
As the year comes to an end here at Screaming Frog we thought we would add to the inevitable roundups posts with our own. But instead of just bragging about the work we do or making pointless ‘SEO predictions for...
11 December, 2018 by Dan Sharp
Screaming Frog Log File Analyser Update – Version 3.0
I am delighted to announce the release of the Screaming Frog Log File Analyser 3.0, codenamed ‘Yule Log’. If you’re not already familiar with the Log File Analyser tool, it allows you to upload your raw server log files, verify...
