Screaming Blog
SEO & search marketing news and chatter from Screaming Frog.
8 April, 2015 by Dan Sharp
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...
11 February, 2015 by Dan Sharp
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...
22 January, 2015 by Dan Sharp
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...
5 January, 2015 by Dan Sharp
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...
21 November, 2014 by Dan Sharp
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...
10 November, 2014 by Dan Sharp
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...
29 September, 2014 by Mark Porter
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...
29 July, 2014 by Dan Sharp
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...
1 July, 2014 by Dan Sharp
Screaming Frog SEO Spider Update – Version 2.50
I am pleased to announce a small update of the Screaming Frog SEO spider to version 2.50, codenamed internally as ‘bite’. Thanks again to everyone for their continued feedback, suggestions and support. This is just a small update, with a...
24 June, 2014 by Paudy Heal
The Importance of Social Media to the SEO World
Ah, social media and SEO. Some will tell you they go together like Batman and Robin, and others will tell you they go together like exact match anchor text and a Penguin update! There’s been a lot of confusion about...
