{"id":45391,"date":"2020-03-03T09:01:00","date_gmt":"2020-03-03T14:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.inmotionhosting.com\/support\/?p=45391"},"modified":"2021-06-17T18:15:22","modified_gmt":"2021-06-17T22:15:22","slug":"how-to-install-the-screaming-frog-seo-spider-tool","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.inmotionhosting.com\/support\/website\/seo\/how-to-install-the-screaming-frog-seo-spider-tool\/","title":{"rendered":"How To Install The Screaming Frog SEO Spider Tool"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Is your website easily accessible by search engines? If a search engine has trouble crawling your site then all of your <a href=\"https:\/\/www.inmotionhosting.com\/support\/edu\/wordpress\/search-engine-optimization-with-jetpack-professional\/\">SEO efforts<\/a> will be wasted. Imagine how much energy you might waste. However, there is a good way to crawl your site like a search engine would!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The SEO Spider tool from Screaming Frog is a free application that lets you crawl your site like a search engine and find any trouble spots you can correct. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"alert alert-info\">Enjoy secure, fast hosting for your WordPress site with our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.inmotionhosting.com\/wordpress-hosting\">WordPress Hosting plans<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><a href=\"#Why-You-Should-Use-a-Site-Crawler\">Why you should use a site crawler<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"#How-To-Install-The-SEO-Spider-Tool\">How to install the SEO Spider tool<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"#How-to-Crawl-Your-Site-With-SEO-Spider\">How to Crawl Your Site With SEO Spider<\/a><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>For this article, you&#8217;ll just need access to the Internet and your computer&#8217;s admin password for installing software. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"alert alert-warning\">The spider tool is free for up to 500 URLs of your site. If you have more than 500 URLs you&#8217;ll need to upgrade to the paid version.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"Why-You-Should-Use-a-Site-Crawler\">Why You Should Use a Site Crawler<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Site crawlers are an important tool for every webmaster or casual user who manage websites large or small. The crawler will give you detailed information that would otherwise take you hours to discover\u2014and it does it in mere minutes. All you need to is provide your URL and set the crawler loose to do its work. After the crawl is complete, you\u2019ll have important data like:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Which URLs are being crawled and which are blocked<\/li><li>What pages have broken links<\/li><li>What pages have images<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>And much more. 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