Screaming Frog News & Updates for December 2024

Screaming Frog SEO Spider 20.2 Update: Bug Fixes, Schema.org v27, PSI 12.0.0, Gemini 1.0

6 months ago

Screaming Frog released a small update to version 20.2 of the SEO Spider on June 24, 2024. This update includes bug fixes and minor improvements such as an update to PSI 12.0.0, Schema.org validation to v.27, and JavaScript Library to Gemini 1.0. It also adds features like more progress display in memory mode, retrying Google Sheets writing on 502 responses, and fixes various issues including crashes and UI resizing on Debian using KDE.

How to Identify Orphaned Pages Using Screaming Frog and Google Analytics

6 months ago

Screaming Frog Technical SEO

Use Screaming Frog and the Google Analytics API to find orphaned pages on your website. Orphaned pages are live but lack internal links, causing poor search engine performance or non-indexing. Configure Screaming Frog to crawl your sitemap, connect to Google Analytics, and analyze the "Sitemaps" report to identify these pages. Prioritize and improve internal links to enhance visibility and indexation.

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Technical SEO Tip: Screaming Frog's 'Show Differences' Highlights JavaScript-Loaded Content

6 months ago

Screaming Frog Technical SEO

New Screaming Frog feature "Show Differences" visually highlights content loaded through JavaScript. This tool allows direct comparison between the HTML version of a page and content requiring JavaScript, ensuring certainty about JavaScript dependencies. To use it, configure the spider for JavaScript rendering, enable HTML storage, start a crawl, and view differences in the "View Source" tab. This helps identify elements needing JavaScript.

How to Detect if Google Ignores Your Canonicals Using Google Search Console Data

7 months ago

Screaming Frog Technical SEO

To ensure Google isn't serving canonical child URLs, crawl your site and export the data to Google Sheets. Export the last 16 months of search console data and run 'Search Analytics for Sheets'. Find your URL, request data, and add 'GSC Clicks' and 'GSC Impressions' to your canonicalised URL sheet. Use VLOOKUP to match data and filter URLs with GSC data. These URLs need attention to prevent cannibalisation and ensure the canonical parent is the lead URL. Repeat as needed.

Screaming Frog's Major Update: Custom JavaScript, OpenAI Integration, and N-gram Analysis

7 months ago

Screaming Frog Technical SEO

Screaming Frog's new update adds powerful features. Users can execute custom JavaScript during website crawls for tasks like sentiment analysis and text generation. The update integrates OpenAI's ChatGPT for meta description and title tag creation. It can also analyze N-grams in content to identify commonly used terms, keywords, and unlinked N-grams for internal linking opportunities.

Screaming Frog News

Screaming Frog SEO Spider 20.2 Update: Bug Fixes, Schema.org v27, PSI 12.0.0, Gemini 1.0

How to Identify Orphaned Pages Using Screaming Frog and Google Analytics

Tired of spending too much time creating audits for your clients?

Technical SEO Tip: Screaming Frog's 'Show Differences' Highlights JavaScript-Loaded Content

How to Detect if Google Ignores Your Canonicals Using Google Search Console Data

Screaming Frog's Major Update: Custom JavaScript, OpenAI Integration, and N-gram Analysis

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