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Can you use screaming frog as a broken link checker?
You can use the Screaming Frog SEO Spider for free (and paid) to check for broken links (the http response ‘404 not found error’) on your website. Below is a very quick and easy tutorial on how to use the tool as a broken link checker.
Who is the founder of screaming frog Seo?
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. Leave A Comment. Click here to cancel reply.
What do you need to know about 404 broken links?
Here’s a closer view of the lower window pane which details the ‘inlinks’ data – ‘From’ is the source where the 404 broken link can be found, while ‘To’ is the broken link. You can also see the anchor text, alt text (if it’s an image which is hyperlinked) and whether the link is followed (true) or nofollow (false).
How to use broken link checker for SEO?
Below is a very quick and easy tutorial on how to use the tool as a broken link checker. First of all, you’ll need to download the SEO Spider which is free for crawling up to 500 URLs. You can download via the green button in the right hand side bar. You can crawl more than 500 URLs with the paid version.
What to do if you lost your password on Screaming frog?
If you have lost your account password, then simply request a new password via the form. If you purchased a licence before the 22nd of September 2014, then please contact [email protected] with your username or e-mail you used to pay for the premium version. Is it possible to move my licence to a new computer?
How to save configuration settings in screaming frog?
If you tend to use the same settings for each crawl, Screaming Frog now allows you to save your configuration settings: In addition to de-selecting ‘Check Images’, ‘Check CSS’, ‘Check JavaScript’ and ‘Check SWF’, you’ll also want to de-select ‘Check Links Outside Folder’ in the Spider Configuration settings.
How to exclude a page in screaming frog?
Go to Configuration > Exclude; use a wildcard regular expression to identify the URLs or parameters you want to exclude. Test your regular expression to make sure it’s excluding the pages you expected to exclude before you start your crawl: In the example below, we only wanted to crawl the team subfolder on seerinteractive.com.