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Dan Sharp is founder & Director of Screaming Frog. He has developed search strategies for a variety of clients from international brands to small and medium-sized businesses and designed and managed the build of the innovative SEO Spider software.

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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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An Update On Pixel Width In Google SERP Snippets

Some of you may have read our previous post about the changes in Google’s display of search results and our own analysis of how Google truncates SERP snippets based on characters’ pixel width. In our post we explained – Google...

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Screaming Frog SEO Spider Update – Version 2.40

I am excited to announce version 2.40 of the Screaming Frog SEO spider, codenamed internally as ‘Duck Cam’. Thanks again to everyone for their continued feedback, suggestions and support. Let’s get straight to it, the updated version includes the following...

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Page Title & Meta Description By Pixel Width In SERP Snippet

As outlined in our 2.30 release notes, the Screaming Frog SEO spider now calculates the pixel width of page titles and meta descriptions and has a SERP snippet emulator in the lower window tab. Pixel width makes total sense for...

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Screaming Frog SEO Spider Update – Version 2.30

I am really pleased to announce version 2.30 of the Screaming Frog SEO spider code-named ‘Weckl’. This update includes new features that provide greater control of crawls, as well as how the data is analysed. Thanks again to everyone for...

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