Screaming Blog
SEO & search marketing news and chatter from Screaming Frog.
22 June, 2018 by Ben Fuller
The New AdWords Experience- The good, the bad and the where has that gone
Hold on to your hats, the new AdWords user interface, or as Google have referred to it, ‘The New AdWords Experience’, is finally on its way. Issued way back in the spring of 2017, the new interface is set to...
13 June, 2018 by Dan Sharp
Is Bing Really Rendering & Indexing JavaScript?
Historically all search engines were fairly blind to content created dynamically using JavaScript and would only crawl and index content within the initial HTML response. But times have changed, and Google, in particular, renders web pages like a browser, processing...
4 June, 2018 by Patrick Langridge
10 SISTRIX Features I Love
I have a confession to make – I love SISTRIX. SISTRIX, for the uninitiated, is an SEO tool which (amongst other things) plots website visibility based on ranking data, and gives a ton of useful and actionable insight into website...
14 May, 2018 by Mark Porter
Interactive Content Launch Checklist - 12 Things to Do Before You Send It to the Client
The time has finally come. You’ve poured your blood, sweat, and tears into your most recent content piece, and it’s ready to be packaged up and sent to the client to be pushed live. After a few final checks and...
4 May, 2018 by Dan Sharp
Win Screaming Frog T-Shirts
It’s time for another giveway. This time you have the chance to win a very cool Screaming Frog tee. If you’re looking to keep cool this summer and proudly display your inner SEO, these are the t-shirts for you. We...
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...
