WHAT IS SCREAMING FROG

Screaming Frog is one of the SEO tools that can help us to find any damage or problem on our website. This tool is a desktop application that can be used and downloaded from your PC easily.

The way it works is by taking SEO data, metadata, URL, and schema categories on the website. The advantage of Screaming Frog is that sorting and finding various problems or obstacles on SEO. 

This tool is associated with Google Analytics so that it can transfer the data to the overall analytic profile. This tool is also trusted as tools that are easy and widely used to monitor traffic and a website rank. The sophistication of these tools also makes it easy to review, analyze, and audit a website quickly from an SEO point of view.

1. Can analyze the title page and metadata
2. Finding error server and broken link
3. Making sitemap
4. Extracting data using XPath
5. Finding duplicate content, such as metadata and its title
6. Can review robots
7. Integrating with google analytics
8. Can audit redirects

1. It Can Identify the Link Referring to the 404 Error

404 is one of the problems on most websites. Sometimes, it needs sophisticated tools to solve a website problem. The use of Screaming Frog will help to solve 404 problems.

2. It Can Extract the Data and Website Analysis

By using Screaming Frog, it is useful for helping you to optimize and know the information related to SEO of your website, such as meta, description, and H1. These tools can extract all of the information in every element on the website to fix or optimize the website work. So, a problem on the website will be tracked and solved quickly and accurately.

3. It Can Gradually Crawl a Site

The migration process on a website is one of the things that is quite stressful because before launching a new website, all of things should be confirmed that there are no constraints that can interfere with the work of the website since every website has different levels of security.

However, by using Screaming Frog, it might crawl the website gradually. If a website has a password, you only have to log in and then you can start to crawl a website. If the website is blocked by robots.txt, you only have to open the configuration settings to ignore the robots.txt.

4. It Can Divert Audit

These tools also function to audit redirect links. If you want to migrate the sites and make sure that all of the pages by the same site have been switched, so a redirect audit allows you to enter the old URL, then the tools will crawl and follow every step until the new URL is reachable and can be accessed without any obstacles.

1. List URL

First of all, you have to register the URL that you want to check using file.txt format. Make sure that you write the complete URL address.

2. Configure Custom Source Code Filter

Open Spider SEO and choose the section configuration > custom > search.

3.   Upload URL

Upload URL lists that have been saved in .txt format. The tools will identify the URLs that are integrated with our website.

4. Prepare and Crawl

Click “custom” and choose the filter from the drop-down, then pay attention and analyze the data that appears.

5. Review

After all of the steps have been done, then review the result displayed. Check again all the Backlink list that you have entered and observed the backlink integrated with the website. If all of the Backlinks are indeed about your website or some Backlinks are irrelevant to your website.