Screaming Blog
SEO & search marketing news and chatter from Screaming Frog.
20 March, 2018 by Mark Porter
Content Ideation: Tools & Techniques
Creating content these days is tough. Historically, when us content marketers find something that works well we tend to pursue them relentlessly, to the point of reaching diminishing returns (infographics are a case in point).
7 March, 2018 by Oliver Brett
How to Dodge Bullet(Point)s and Nail Your First SEO Talk
For a digital industry there’s much to be said for how much we all love an in-person lecture. Maybe it’s a collective longing for those rosy university days, or perhaps it’s just the buzz (and the beer) found at many...
26 February, 2018 by Dan Sharp
Screaming Frog SEO Spider Update – Version 9.0
I’m delighted to announce the release of Screaming Frog SEO Spider 9.0, codenamed internally as ‘8-year Monkey’. Our team have been busy in development working on exciting new features. In our last update, we released a new user interface, in...
15 November, 2017 by Daniel Cartland
Canonicals – The Good, The Bad, & The Ugly
Canonical URLs can be marked up as a link element within the head of a page, or by rel=”canonical” HTTP headers to signal to search engines which page is the “preferred” URL to rank – usually in situations where content...
28 September, 2017 by Liam Sharp
Google Search Console robots.txt Tester Inconsistencies
We’ve had a few customers notice that our robots.txt tester tool, in version 8.1 of the SEO Spider, gives different results than the robots.txt tester in Google Search Console . This variation in behaviour is around the handling of non-ASCII...
18 July, 2017 by Dan Sharp
Screaming Frog SEO Spider Update – Version 8.0
I’m excited to announce the release of Screaming Frog SEO Spider 8.0, codenamed internally as ‘All J’s must go’. Our team have been busy in development working on some exciting new features, so let’s get straight to it, and talk...
3 May, 2017 by Dan Sharp
Screaming Frog Drinking Bottles Giveaway
It’s time for another giveaway. This time, you can win some very cool Screaming Frog aluminium drinking bottles. You’ve probably been told you should drink more (water), so why not keep hydrated in SEOtyle? Sorry. The large capacity (770ml) and...
12 April, 2017 by Dan Sharp
22 Ways To Analyse Logs Using The Log File Analyser
Log Files are an incredibly powerful, yet underutilised way to gain valuable insights about how each search engine crawls your site. They allow you to see exactly what the search engines have experienced, over a period of time. Logs remove...
5 April, 2017 by Dan Sharp
How To Fetch & Render (Almost) Any Site
From time to time, we’ve struggled to get access to Google Search Console quickly from a client to perform a fetch and render. Or, we’ve just wanted to perform a fetch and render on a third party site that isn’t...
27 March, 2017 by Dan Sharp
Screaming Frog Log File Analyser Update – Version 2.0
I am delighted to announce the release of the Screaming Frog Log File Analyser 2.0, codenamed ‘Snoop’. Since launch last year, we’ve released eight smaller updates to the Log File Analyser, but this is a much larger and more significant...
