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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.

Negative SEO - Should You Monitor Your Backlinks?

Historically links were often either counted or ignored by Google in their scoring. However, as their algorithms evolved over the past 5 years and more recently with the introduction of Penguin in April 2012 and increase in manual actions, links...

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Screaming Frog SEO Spider Update – Version 2.20

I am delighted to announce version 2.20 of the Screaming Frog SEO spider. We have been busy behind the scenes developing some very cool new features which we hope everyone will enjoy! As always, thank you to everyone for their...

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Google Panda - How Many Actually Recover?

The original Google Panda algorithm was introduced on the 23rd of February 2011 on Google.com to reduce the visibility of ‘low quality’ sites with content identified to be a poor user experience, thin and often partially duplicated in nature. The...

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Screaming Frog SEO Spider Update – Version 2.10

Just a quick post to let you all know we have released an update of the Screaming Frog SEO spider to version 2.10. The updated version of the SEO spider has plenty of new features, which include – Save Configuration...

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When Google Gets Penalties Wrong

I wanted to share a very interesting Google penalty case that we ecountered recently. An old client who owns an ecommerce website with a multi-million pound turnover and sells electronic goods called me out of the blue a few weeks...

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Screaming Frog SEO Spider Update – Version 2.00

It’s been a little longer than usual between our SEO spider updates, so I am pleased to announce the release of the Screaming Frog SEO spider version 2.00. New SEO spider features include the following – Word count – The...

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16 Google Penalty, Update & Filter Visualisations By SEO Visibility

We thought it would be interesting to put together a quick post which helps visualise the impact of various Google penalties, updates and filters. Obviously the best way to gauge the impact would be to analyse analytics, conversion and ranking...

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Screaming Frog SEO Spider For Ubuntu & 1.90 Update

I am excited to announce the release of the Screaming Frog SEO spider for Ubuntu. I know some of you might have already been using the SEO spider on Ubuntu, but this is a properly packaged version. Alongside the Ubuntu...

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Screaming Frog SEO Spider Is Now 1 Year Old

It’s a year ago today that we released the SEO spider, so we thought we should celebrate a little! Check out @matthopson‘s birthday cake skillz below – The last 12-months have been fantastic, both in terms of development of the...

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Screaming Frog SEO Spider Update – Version 1.80

I am excited to announce an update to the Screaming Frog SEO spider, to version 1.80. The following new features are included in the update – Crawl Speed Control – The ability to control the speed of the crawl is...

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