How to use Screaming Frog SEO spider to improve On page SEO

As we all know Screaming Frog SEO Spider is an On page SEO Audit tool. Each and every website needs on page Audit to identify Internal, on page issues, redirects. It is a free tool for auditing a website up to 500 pages. For websites more than 500 pages ( e-commerce sites), you need to pay for it. Let’s see how to use screaming frog SEO spider to improve On page SEO

But first, we need to know the advantages of using Screaming Frog SEO Spider tool to improve On page SEO, they are

• You can have the spreadsheet of audit data.
• Use to analyse the competitor’s On page, thus you have a competitive advantage.
• Find Internal Broken Links.
• Can Find Redirects.
• Find the blank meta detas, that needs to be filled.
• You can use this audit to improve on page performance
• And find other On page errors that needs to get fixed

First, you need to download the desktop application of Screaming Frog SEO spider, Click here to view the website. Then click download, it’ll be around 500mb. Then install the application.

You may see lot of data once you enter a website’s URL address. Let’s go with the menus in the top bar.

1. File

Inside the file menu, you can save the existing crawl data as a file and can view it anytime. You can also save current configuration as default. And also you can schedule the crawling ( but some features are limited to Premium users).

2. Configuration

In the Configuration menu, you can click spider to customize the content that you need to see. You can Include and exclude images, CSS and Java script. With the help of API access you can connect to the tools like Majestic, Ahrefs, Moz, Google Search console and Google Analytics. In addition to that, you can use authentication and lot of cool features are available with premium account.

3. Mode

Using the Mode menu you can change modes like List, spider, and SERP. The default mode is spider mode. For using List mode, you need a valid URL list File. For using SERP mode, you need a valid SERP summary file.

4. Bulk Export

With the help of Bulk Export Option, you can export All Inlinks, outlinks, Queued URL, All anchor test, All images, Screenshots, All page source. Able to export response codes like like Blocked by Robots. txt Inlinks, Success Inlinks, Redirection Inlinks, Client error and server error. And also able to export URLs in the sitemaps Inlinks.

5. Reports

Under reports, you can see crawl overview, where you’ll get overall On site audit report for your page. It also includes Redirect & Canonical chains, Non – Indexable Canonicals, Pagination, Insecure content, orphan pages and many more.

6. Sitemaps

With the help of this menu, you can able to view sitemap for your site.

7. Visualisations

This is one of the most important and coolest feature in this tool. It’ll show your site pages and links in the form of graph. Like below

In side this tool, you can find 3 windows, In the middle you can find the report on crawled website like Address, occurences, Indexability and many more.

The second window is in the right side of the tool, you can drag it your left side if you want. It shows data about the pages crawled.

The third window, which is in the bottom, once a particular URL is selected, it’ll show the data related to URL. Right from URL details to Inlinks, outlinks, SERP it’ll show you all.

How to use Screaming frog SEO Spider to increase On page SEO

1. Insecure Content report

It is a primary consideration that each and every website/ blog should be Secure. Should not affected by any unwanted viruses or malwares. So with the help of this Insecure Content Report, we can view which content is insecure. With the help of that we can fix it or we can eliminate it.

2. Get Response Codes

Response codes helps you to find whether your URL is blocked by Robots. txt Inlinks, Blocked Resource Inlinks, No response links, Success, redirection, client error, and server error.

In redirection, 301 indicates that the link is permanently redirected, 302 indicates that the link is temporarily redirected. 401 indicates the URL link leads to no existent pages. SO once you find it you can fix that right away.

3. Check your URL Structures

With this Screaming Frog SEO Spider Tool, you can check your URL structure. Always the URL structure should be simple, keyword rich and should be short. Unwanted or Confusing URL will lead to poor User Experience.

4. Correct page Titles

With the help of page Titles option, you can view and find whether the titles used are duplicate( repetitive), thus making every title unique. To find whether titles are keyword rich

5. Analyze Meta Descriptions

we need to visualize the website’s meta descriptions and make sure that they’re totally optimized. Check for and alt meta descriptions that have duplicate content, aren’t keyword optimized, or square measure missing. confine mind the character count ought to be around 160 characters. If you’d wish to filter and check for specific problems (for example missing meta descriptions), use the filter computer menu.

6. Inspect H1 Titles

You should inspect whether the H1 Titles are used, no of missed H1 tools. Each and every H1 Titles should be unique. H1 optization will help you greatly on keyword rankings.

7. Optimize Images

Optimize images, like change the alt text, compress and re insert the image if the image size is more than 100kb. You can either compress or replace with smaller image.

8. Look at Responsive time

With this report, you can check at the responsive time for every URL, if the responsive time is below 2 seconds, then it is healthy. If the responsive site is more than 2 seconds.

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