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Screaming Frog SEO Spider Tool

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Is Screaming Frog SEO Spider Tool good?

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  • Profile picture of the author nettiapina
    Yes, it's excellent. However, I'm pretty sure you can find most of that functionality for free too.
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    • Profile picture of the author thet
      Originally Posted by nettiapina View Post

      Yes, it's excellent. However, I'm pretty sure you can find most of that functionality for free too.
      Well, this one is free Maybe I am missing something, but under 500 seems free?
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      • Profile picture of the author nettiapina
        Originally Posted by thet View Post

        Well, this one is free Maybe I am missing something, but under 500 seems free?
        Ah, true that. Just check if that "free" includes just the HTML articles or everything the spider is able to fetch.
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        • Profile picture of the author thet
          Originally Posted by nettiapina View Post

          Ah, true that. Just check if that "free" includes just the HTML articles or everything the spider is able to fetch.

          Paid:
          • The 500 URI crawl limit is removed
          • You can access ALL the configuration options
          • You can save and re-upload crawls
          • You can search for anything in the source code of a website with the custom source code search feature
          • You get support for any technical issues with the software

          So I think free is as followed:
          [/B]The SEO Spider Tool Crawls & Reports On The Following
          A quick summary of some of the data collected in a crawl include -
          • Errors - Client errors such as broken links & server errors (No responses, 4XX, 5XX).
          • Redirects - Permanent or temporary redirects (3XX responses).
          • External Links - All external links and their status codes.
          • Protocol - Whether the URLs are secure (HTTPS) or insecure (HTTP).
          • URI Issues - Non ASCII characters, underscores, uppercase characters, parameters, or long URLs.
          • Duplicate Pages - Hash value / MD5checksums algorithmic check for exact duplicate pages.
          • Page Titles - Missing, duplicate, over 65 characters, short, pixel width truncation, same as h1, or multiple.
          • Meta Description - Missing, duplicate, over 156 characters, short, pixel width truncation or multiple.
          • Meta Keywords - Mainly for reference, as they are not used by Google, Bing or Yahoo.
          • File Size - Size of URLs & images.
          • Response Time.
          • Last-Modified Header.
          • Page Depth Level.
          • Word Count.
          • H1 - Missing, duplicate, over 70 characters, multiple.
          • H2 - Missing, duplicate, over 70 characters, multiple.
          • Meta Robots - Index, noindex, follow, nofollow, noarchive, nosnippet, noodp, noydir etc.
          • Meta Refresh - Including target page and time delay.
          • Canonical link element & canonical HTTP headers.
          • X-Robots-Tag.
          • rel="next" and rel="prev".
          • AJAX - The SEO Spider obeys Google's AJAX Crawling Scheme.
          • Inlinks - All pages linking to a URI.
          • Outlinks - All pages a URI links out to.
          • Anchor Text - All link text. Alt text from images with links.
          • Follow & Nofollow - At page and link level (true/false).
          • Images - All URIs with the image link & all images from a given page. Images over 100kb, missing alt text, alt text over 100 characters.
          • User-Agent Switcher - Crawl as Googlebot, Bingbot, Yahoo! Slurp, mobile user-agents or your own custom UA.
          • Redirect Chains - Discover redirect chains and loops.
          • Custom Source Code Search - The SEO Spider allows you to find anything you want in the source code of a website! Whether that's Google Analytics code, specific text, or code etc. (Please note - This is not a data extraction or scraping feature yet.)
          • XML Sitemap Generator - You can create an XML sitemap and an image sitemap using the SEO spider.
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  • Profile picture of the author thet
    Crawl Up To 500 URLs For Free
    The standard ‘Lite’ version of the tool is completely free to download and use. However, this version is restricted to crawling a maximum of 500 URLs in a single crawl and it does not give you full access to the configuration, saving of crawls or the custom source code feature. You can crawl 500 URLs from the same website, or as many websites as you like as many times as you like though!

    For just £99 per annum you can purchase an individual licence, which removes the 500 URL crawl limit, opens up the spider’s configuration options and custom source code search feature. Alternatively hit the ‘buy a licence’ button in the SEO Spider to buy a licence after downloading and trialling the software.
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  • Profile picture of the author Oghma
    To be honest then the free version of it does the job still.
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