Which SEO Tools to use? Crawlers.

Welcome to SEO Tools Part 3 - Crawling Tools. Part of the SEO Daily newsletter series about the things you need in your daily life as an SEO professional.

There comes a time in every SEOs professional life when they need to perform a technical SEO audit of their own business/site, for a client or the company they work for.

We summarise our 3 favourite SEO crawlers that can be use for a full tech SEO Audit:

1) Screaming Frog

Our personal favourite, Screaming Frog is a robust tool with many integrations and library additions. You can customise it to perform any audit you like, from rendering JS content, to extract xpaths, create tree visualisations and the addition of the recent libraries to integrate with Open AI by adding your Open AI key and using a variety of prompts (for example generate alt text for images).

You can use it for Free with limited functionality but honestly the price of 239 € per year is ridiculous for what is offering. You can find the pricing here.

Con: It has to be installed either locally in which case you might need a strong machine to do your audits. Or in a virtual server if your company is using one.

2) Lumar (formerly Deepcrawl)

Not as robust as Screaming Frog but Lumar has made some nice new recent updates and offers a complete setup especially when you handle multiple sites. The fact that it offers a web version makes it even more attractive as it has a friendly UI and it is very easy to set up. And their support team is super responsive and efficient.

Con: Its pricing especially as you scale and you need to add more users or properties.

3) Sitebulb

A good alternative to the above tools with a much more user friendly UI that allows you to crawl at scale for an affordable price. It is not as robust as Screaming Frog or Lumar but its less pricey that Lumar and requires less technical knowledge than Screaming Frog to use.

These are our favourite tech SEO Auditing tools for crawling. In case you missed the other two parts, you can find them below:

• Part 1 - Chrome Extensions
• Part 2 - Keyword Research

Stay tuned for part 4 - Linkbuilding tools!

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My name is Nicolas Monti-Potsolakis ????♂?I am an SEO Consultant at NMP Consulting for Enterprises, SMEs and Start-Ups and Founder of Black Lantern Marketing

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