A Screaming Frog Alternative That Repairs What the Crawl Finds

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 page choice, the writing, the search reporting, and the AI answer tracking that a crawler was never built to cover. Their pricing counts URLs inside a crawl and people holding a license, while ours counts how many pages get optimized 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, and correcting schema, and that costs a great deal more than $1,200 a month 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 $1,200 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.

Visibility Pro is $1,200 a month per website and bundles AI Visibility, Search Reporting, and Page Optimization, which come to $1,348 bought separately. That covers 25 prompts tracked on Claude, monthly search reporting, and four pages optimized a month. One price per website rather than a license per person, with no annual renewal and no second product to add on top. If one part of it is all you need, 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, how often AI assistants named you, 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.

Cancel any time and the service runs to the last business day of that month. There are no partial refunds. 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.