What it is

Screaming Frog SEO Spider is a powerful website crawler. Think of it like a robot that visits your website page by page. It checks everything that a search engine like Google sees. This helps you find problems and opportunities to make your website better for search engines and visitors.

Main Features

This tool checks many important things. It finds broken links, also known as 404 errors. It shows you duplicate content that can hurt your search rankings. It checks page titles and meta descriptions to make sure they are good. It can find missing alt text for images. It shows you how fast your pages load. It can also check XML sitemaps and robots.txt files.

Who it Helps

Screaming Frog is great for SEO professionals, website owners, and digital marketers. If you want your website to show up higher in search results, this tool is for you. It helps you understand what needs fixing on your site. It is useful for small personal blogs and very large e-commerce websites.

How to Start

You can download Screaming Frog SEO Spider from their website. There is a free version that is very useful for smaller websites. For larger websites or more advanced features, you can buy a license. Once installed, you enter your website’s address, and the spider starts crawling. It then shows you all the data it found in easy to read tables.

Pricing

Screaming Frog offers a free version with limitations on the number of URLs it can crawl per website. The paid version, called the SEO Spider license, costs a yearly fee. This license unlocks the full potential of the tool for unlimited crawling and access to all features.