Question 1

What is a Screaming Frog alternative?

Accepted Answer

Anything that crawls a site and reports what is wrong with it. That covers rival desktop crawlers, the cloud audits built into broader suites such as Semrush and Ahrefs, the free coverage reporting already sitting in Search Console, and managed services such as this one where the crawl and the repair both happen outside your company. Screaming Frog is the specialist crawler in that list. We are in the last group, which is a different purchase rather than a cheaper version of the same one.

Question 2

How is Cascadia different from Screaming Frog?

Accepted Answer

Screaming Frog finds faults and we repair them. Their licence produces an accurate list of what is wrong with a site. Ours produces changes that are live on it, plus the targeting, the writing and the link work that a crawler was never built to cover. Their pricing counts URLs inside a crawl and people holding a licence, while ours counts how much content and link work happens each month. Which one is right depends on whether the thing you are missing is the diagnosis or the repair.

Question 3

How does your price compare to theirs?

Accepted Answer

It is free under five hundred URLs and one hundred and ninety nine pounds per person per year above that, against seven hundred and forty nine dollars a month here. There is no version of that arithmetic where we are the cheaper line and we are not going to construct one. The comparison is not licence against licence though. It is a licence against a licence plus the hours of whoever works through what it finds, and once those hours are costed at any realistic rate the two figures move a great deal closer.

Question 4

Is Screaming Frog cheaper than this?

Accepted Answer

Enormously, and under five hundred URLs it costs nothing whatsoever. No arithmetic makes a desktop licence cost more than a staffed service, and dressing that up would insult you. What the licence does not contain is anybody to act on what comes out of it. That is the only reason to keep reading past the price.

Question 5

Why pay anything when the crawler is free?

Accepted Answer

Because the crawler was never the expensive part of technical SEO. The expensive part is a competent person spending a recurring share of every month editing redirect rules, rewriting titles, correcting schema and chasing links, and that costs a great deal more than seven hundred and forty nine whether you employ them or hire them. If that person is already on your payroll, download the free version and keep the difference. We would rather say so than take the order.

Question 6

Why not just work through the crawl list ourselves?

Accepted Answer

You should, if somebody there has both the site access and the hours. It is the cheapest path available and we say so on this page more than once. The reason it usually does not happen is that a crawl returns a few thousand rows, most of them harmless, and separating the handful that matter from the rest is judgement rather than effort. Then each of those needs a change on a live server that nobody wants to be responsible for breaking.

Question 7

Should we buy this at all?

Accepted Answer

Often not, and month one is a much better time to establish that than month six. If somebody in house enjoys this work and has the hours, download the free version and keep the difference, which here is the entire seven hundred and forty nine a month. This starts to make sense when search matters to revenue, the fix list has been rolling over untouched for a while, and nobody wants to own it.

Question 8

Do we have to stop using Screaming Frog?

Accepted Answer

No, and there is often good reason not to. Keep the licence if somebody there uses it and we will work alongside it rather than against it. One thing worth checking first: licences renew annually and are held per person, so if the only colleague who had one has since left, that renewal is very likely still going out. Nothing on our side depends on whether you keep it.

Question 9

Does anything break while you take over?

Accepted Answer

No. The site stays up and nothing is rebuilt. Technical changes go in one at a time and each is verified before the next one starts, and anything carrying real risk is staged and discussed first. The visible difference in month one is usually that a handful of long standing errors drop off the crawl and stop being counted a second time.

Question 10

What if we were penalised or hit by an update?

Accepted Answer

Then recovery comes before growth and the timeline stretches. We establish whether it was a manual action, an algorithmic update, or a change that merely resembles one, then repair the cause and write down what we found. Some of it clears within weeks and some waits for the next core update. Anybody offering a date for that is guessing.

Question 11

Do you host the site or own the content?

Accepted Answer

No. The site stays on your hosting under your domain, and every page we write belongs to you the moment it publishes. That is deliberate. Leaving costs you nothing beyond the work stopping, which is the difference between building an asset and renting visibility by the month.

Question 12

What is included at each tier?

Accepted Answer

Managed WordPress SEO at seven hundred and forty nine covers technical repairs, keyword strategy, content, authority building, local search and monthly reporting. Growth at one thousand four hundred and ninety nine lifts content and link volume and covers multiple locations where they exist. Two sizes rather than a licence per person, with no annual renewal and no second product to add on top. Most single location businesses should start on the first, and we will say so rather than selling up.

Question 13

Do you guarantee rankings?

Accepted Answer

No, and treat anybody who does with suspicion. Nobody outside Google decides what ranks, so a ranking guarantee is either hedged until it means nothing or pinned to terms so obscure that winning them proves nothing. What we commit to is work done, published and reported, with the months a number went the wrong way shown beside the months it did not. A crawler at least never claims otherwise.

Question 14

What does the monthly report actually contain?

Accepted Answer

What was published, what changed technically, which positions moved and in which direction, what was earned in links, and what we intend to do about whatever did not work. Positions and clicks appear together, because climbing ten places on a term nobody searches is not progress. It is written to be read in a few minutes by somebody with no interest in what a canonical tag is. There is no export to open and no filter to apply, which suits some people and not others.

Question 15

How long before we see a difference?

Accepted Answer

Technical repairs can show within weeks, because a page that was not being indexed properly starts being indexed properly. Rankings on competitive terms are the slow half: three to six months before the direction is clear, and longer where the results above you are entrenched. An error count in a crawl drops the moment the fix goes in, which is satisfying and is not the same measurement at all.

Question 16

What if I want to leave?

Accepted Answer

Thirty days notice ends it and nothing is stranded. The site, the pages and the positions were always yours, so there is no account to migrate, nothing to hand back, and no unused portion of a licence year sitting on our side. Positions do decay once the work stops, because competitors keep publishing. That is the nature of the channel rather than a lock in, and we would rather you knew it before signing than after leaving.

A Screaming Frog Alternative That Repairs What The Crawl Finds

The unlimited crawl carries an asterisk, and the asterisk points at your own hardware

It runs on a desktop, so it runs when somebody remembers to open it

Screaming Frog also run an agency, and this page is not about that half of them

Cascadia

Without Cascadia

Redirect chains and canonical tags repaired on the server, not listed in an export

Targets set against margin and customer value, which no crawl output contains

Team size never changes the price, with no second licence at the second person

Structured data written and corrected, not only validated and reported on

Backlink acquisition worked every month, which no crawler has ever contained

Billed monthly on thirty days notice, not a licence year bought in advance

Google Business Profile and local listings owned inside the same monthly fee

Index coverage watched continuously, not only when somebody opens the application

A written monthly summary instead of a spreadsheet somebody has to interpret

Two service sizes rather than a licence per head and a second product for log files

Where Screaming Frog fits

Where hiring us makes sense

Where Screaming Frog is strong

What seven hundred and forty nine buys that a licence does not

What the first ninety days look like from your side

Nothing gets touched until we have read the whole crawl

The faults that actually matter get repaired, then re-crawled to prove it

The target list gets built around margin rather than around volume

Publishing starts, and the reporting carries on regardless

Don't Take Our Word For It

The same errors appeared in the export every month for a year

The migration crawl came back clean, and the traffic still halved

Dollars a month, with nothing metered and nothing to renew

Setup fee, and no licence to buy for anybody

Months before the direction is clear on terms already within reach

Screaming Frog alternative and managed SEO FAQs

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