I cross reference that against other fields, especially indexing fields, and see how the number of results impact things like ranking, traffic, and index status. I use the custom extraction to pull the number of results and it gets put into a field. An example I use is on our pages that are search result pages on the site.
It doesn’t have to be visible, and it can even be code (html / css).
Screaming frog is an SEO spider, think GoogleBot but you get to save the data it captures. So you are talking about $16 a month if you wanted to break it down that way.Buy it, write it off, and call it a day, it will save you that money in the first hour you use it. The paid version is 149 pounds / year, or about $200 US dollars. Let’s start at the beginning, it’s free but limited, and you don’t run it online. Let’s jump right in, what is screaming frog and what can you do with it?