Screaming Blog
SEO & search marketing news and chatter from Screaming Frog.
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...
19 June, 2014 by Stephen Pritchard
Should we scrap English Literature and teach SEO instead?
The exam board OCR recently announced it was dropping long-standing American texts such as Of Mice and Men and The Crucible from the English Literature GCSE syllabus, with education secretary Michael Gove to blame. As someone with three younger siblings...
15 May, 2014 by Dan Sharp
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...
15 May, 2014 by Dan Sharp
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...
30 April, 2014 by Joe Trimby
Brighton SEO 2014 – The Frog’s Perspective
Brighton is a seaside town that I have always associated with Brighton Rock, both the confectionery and the Graham Greene novel whose title was inspired by the classic British sweet. However, from now on when I think of Brighton there...
17 April, 2014 by Mark Porter
Using Reddit to Build an Army of Niche Writers
Everybody wants ground breaking content these days, whether it’s for your own site or for posting elsewhere (yes, dirty guest posting), but few are willing to put their money where their mouth is. No, I’m not talking about choosing ‘5...
