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How Accurate Are Website Traffic Estimators?
If you’ve worked at an agency for any significant amount of time, and particularly if you’ve been involved in forecasting, proposals or client pitches, you’ve likely been asked at least one of (or a combination or amalgamation of) the following...
How do I extract multiple matches of a regex?
If you want all the H1s from the following HTML: <html> <head> <title>2 h1s</title> </head> <body> <h1>h1-1</h1> <h1>h1-2</h1> </body> </html> Then we can use: <h1>(.*?)</h1>
Why is my regex extracting more than expected?
If you are using a regex like .* that contains a greedy quantifier you may end up matching more than you want. The solution to this is to use a regex like .*?. For example if you are trying to...
How does the Spider treat robots.txt?
The SEO Spider is robots.txt compliant. It checks robots.txt in the same way as Google. It will check robots.txt of the (sub) domain and follow directives specifically any for Googlebot, or for all user-agents. You are able to adjust the...
Why isn’t my Include/Exclude function working?
The Include and Exclude are case sensitive, so any functions need to match the URL exactly as it appears. Please read both guides for more information. Functions will be applied to URLs that have not yet been discovered by the...
Web Scraping & Custom Extraction
Scrape any data from the HTML of a page using CSS Path, XPath and regex to enhance a crawl, such as author name, comments, shares or more.
Screaming Frog SEO Spider Update – Version 4.0
I’m really pleased to announce version 4.0 of the Screaming Frog SEO Spider, codenamed internally as ‘Ella’. We have been busy in development working on some significant improvements to the SEO Spider due for release later this year, which include...
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...
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...
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...
