SEOSpyder is neat and small crawling software for Mac OSX which provides its users with in-depth seo data and features of a particular website. With it you can easily scan, trace and analyse every single link on your website which makes it a quite powerful tool for dealing with 404s and any other type of errors and mistakes which would be punished by the web crawlers. Moreover the product provides you with information not only for the HTMLs but for the images, css and javascript files and a lot of metadata – source paths, alt and anchor texts, rel attributes and others. Start, save and export a crawl of a site Hit Run or File>New, choose one from the 18 crawling agents (very useful if you have both mobile and desktop versions of your site) and let the analysing begin. The already processed links will show up in the “Finished” filter and the ones that wait on the queue – in the “Pending”. The progress of the scan, the scanning speed and the elapsed time are displayed in the top panel. Once you hear the nice melody and the spider is ready export the results either as an HTML report, csv file, sitemap xml file or GraphVz file. If you have paused the crawl and want to start a new one, go to File>Clear and then File>New or directly to the File>New. Tip: If you have just finished a 2+ hour crawl you might want to save all the retrieved data about your site for later usage in the native file format of SEOSpyder- *.seospyder. Then you can load it instantaneously at any time and examine it as if it has just been harvested. If you choose to export the data as a Report, Sitemap or GraphVz file, SEOSpyder will export all the examined links. However if you want to export only a particular filter – right click on it and choose “Export to csv”. Custom user-made filters – the true analytical power of SEOSpyder Filters are what will make you fall in love with SEOSpyder. The default 13 filters are in the right panel and are sorted in categories:

Filters by state: All, Pending, Finished;

All, Pending, Finished; Filters by content: HTML, Images, CSS, Javascripts, RSS;

HTML, Images, CSS, Javascripts, RSS; Filter by status code: 2xx, 3xx, 4xx, 5xx, not status code;

2xx, 3xx, 4xx, 5xx, not status code; Custom Filters: —

The last one – Custom Filters is where the true power of the SEOSpyder comes from. Find all the pages whose title contain the word “QR”, have PNG images on them and have response time above 3 sec or find all the pages with one and the same author and external outlinks more than 50. The combinations are basically numerous and the more you think about it, the more you realize what are the true capabilities of the SEOSpyder. Tip: The subject about the custom filters is quite vast and can’t be fully comprised here. For more information and useful examples regularly check our blog or the video tutorials tab which is currently “under construction” SEOSpyder provides elaborated and in-depth insight of your webpages The up (main) window distributes to the user the following 36 key and unique SEO attributes about every single link in your site:

‪Address

‪Status code

‪Content Type

‪Level

‪In Links

‪Out Links

‪Int. Out Links

‪Ext. Out Links

‪Error

‪Title

‪Title Length

‪Titles Count

‪Meta Desc.

‪Meta Desc. Length

‪Meta Desc. Count

‪Author

‪Publisher

‪Canonical

‪Size

‪Duration

‪Date

‪Charset

‪Server

‪Base

‪Meta Keywords

‪Meta Keywords Length

‪Meta Keywords Count

‪H1 Count

‪H2 Count

‪H3 Count

‪Open Graph Title

‪Open Graph Type

‪Open Graph URL

‪Open Graph Image

‪Facebook Page Id

Facebook App Id

Anchor text

The interface is not only simple and intuitive but flexible as well. The filters and the bottom window can be hidden from the “View” buttons. Furthermore you can always rearrange the default order of the columns or even hide some of them by right clicking and choosing “Show View Options”. What is more right clicking on any of the links will reveal you quite a few handy and useful functionalities like:

Copy the URL or Open it in browser;

Auditing the link with SEOAuditor ;

; Pinging it with SEOPingler ;

; Validating it with the W3 validator;

Checking the loading speed of the page in WebPageTest, PingDom, Google page speed or GTmetrix;

View the page in InterArchive;

View the page in responsinator.com – credential for mobile sites;

Above the columns there is a search bar for further browsing the filters. Once a sequence of characters is entered the application will give you only the links that contain this particular sequence. If you are at the 2xx filter and enter “qrencoder” it will give you all the links that are Ok and contain the word. Moreover if you switch between the filters – for example go to the 3xx – the search will still be applied.

Tip: If you have searched the results from a particular filter (3xx) and choose to export this filter as csv file (by right clicking on it) the searched 3xx will be exported not all 3xx.

Once you have selected a link in the up (main) window the bottom window will provide you with 9 different tabs giving you almost the same information as in the up one, but structured and in greater details:

General – the same seo keys and values as in the up window but more concise;

In, Out, Internal Out, External Out Links – all the links from this type for the particular page and their metadata;

Shortest Path – the shortest path to a particular page from the root directory;

H1, H2, H3 – all the heading tags on the page selected in the up window and their lengths;