Screaming Frog alternative

A Screaming Frog Alternative That Repairs What The Crawl Finds

Screaming Frog is a desktop crawler and it is the best one there is. Point it at a site and it returns every broken link, every redirect chain, every duplicate title and every page the robots file is quietly blocking. What it will not do is repair a single one of them.

With Cascadia you get

We publish, you approve
Technical work included from day one
Content written, not just briefed
Links earned through real outreach
Reporting you can actually read
Local and store SEO covered

The short version

Why teams pick Cascadia over Screaming Frog

We are for the case underneath that one, where search matters to revenue and the missing piece is a job description rather than a download.

What you get here

  • 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 license 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 license 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
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What ships in the standard plan here

The most trusted crawler in technical SEO, free to five hundred URLs and one hundred and ninety nine pounds a year past that, returning an honest and very complete list of what is wrong with a site. Then the list sits there.

  • 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 license 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 license 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 license per head and a second product for log files
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Where hiring us makes sense

The crawl, then the repairs made directly on your live site, targets chosen against what a customer is worth rather than against a difficulty score, the writing, the publishing, outreach to publishers, and local visibility wherever you hold an address.

The work lands on the site, not in a spreadsheet about the site

Seven hundred and forty nine a month covers changes made to your live installation. Redirect chains shortened, canonicals repointed, schema corrected until a validator accepts it, titles rewritten and pushed.

Nothing here is licensed by the head

No second license when a second person needs the work, no annual renewal to put in the calendar, and no separate purchase for log files.

It does not stop when somebody closes a laptop

A crawler runs when somebody launches it. The work here runs on a schedule that is ours to keep rather than yours to remember. Thirty days’ notice from month one, and the audit happens before any money changes hands.

The crawlers are our overhead, and so is everything beside them

Whatever the work needs in order to be done properly is bought on our side. No license to renew, no second copy for a colleague, no log file product to add, and no crawl waiting on a machine that happens to be free this afternoon.

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Who this comparison is for

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

The paid crawl limit is listed as unlimited, and the note underneath says the maximum number of URLs depends on allocated memory and storage. That is an honest footnote rather than a catch.

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

Windows, macOS and Linux, currently version twenty four point three, installed locally rather than reached through a browser. Scheduling exists and it schedules on that machine.

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

Screaming Frog Ltd sell the SEO Spider, and out of the same office in Henley-on-Thames they also sell search optimization, technical SEO, link building, digital PR and content marketing as a services business.

How switching works

  1. 1

    Nothing gets touched until we have read the whole crawl

    What the crawl returns, what Search Console has been reporting into an empty room, which pages already earn impressions and which have never been seen.

  2. 2

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

    Redirect chains shortened, canonicals aimed at the page that should own the term, schema corrected until it validates, titles and descriptions rewritten where they undersell what sits behind them.

  3. 3

    The target list gets built around margin rather than around volume

    Terms get chosen with your pricing in front of us rather than by volume and difficulty alone. Two hundred searches from people holding a budget beat four thousand from people browsing.

  4. 4

    Publishing starts, and the reporting carries on regardless

    Pages get drafted and shipped, links get chased, and a short summary arrives each month covering what went out, what moved, what did not, and what we intend to do about the part that did not.

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What clients say about working with Cascadia

“I’ve always dreaded website management, but Cascadia has done an incredible job with my WordPress site, making it one less thing for me to worry about.”
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“I’ve worked with Cascadia for several years now. They are always ready to help in any way I ask and can implement my ideas with ease. A company that values their clients!”
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“Cascadia has been great to work with! We recently needed some updates, and Cascadia was quick to get them completed! We highly recommend Cascadia Web Services.”
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“Cascadia is very responsive and we’re happy with them as our primary IT vendor.”
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“They do great work, been using for years. Prompt responses to requests.”
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Screaming Frog alternative questions

Straight answers about switching, pricing, and what moves with you.
What is a Screaming Frog alternative?
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 Moz, 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.
Screaming Frog finds faults and we repair them. Their license 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 license, 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.
Enormously, and under five hundred URLs it costs nothing whatsoever. No arithmetic makes a desktop license cost more than a staffed service, and dressing that up would insult you. What the license does not contain is anybody to act on what comes out of it. That is the only reason to keep reading past the price.
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.
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 judgment rather than effort. Then each of those needs a change on a live server that nobody wants to be responsible for breaking.
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.
No, and there is often good reason not to. Keep the license if somebody there uses it and we will work alongside it rather than against it. One thing worth checking first: licenses 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.
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.
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.
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.
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 license 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.
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.
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.
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.
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 license 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.
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