FreeScreaming Frog (free tier)About 30 min
Crawl Your Site (Free Tier)
A crawler walks your whole site the way a search engine does. It lists every page and flags problems.
Why this matters
You can't fix what you can't see. A crawl finds broken links, missing titles, and messy redirects. Then you fix the base before chasing rankings.
✓ How to do it
- Download Screaming Frog SEO Spider. The free version crawls up to 500 URLs.
- Enter your domain and run the crawl.
- Sort by Status Code to find 4xx and 5xx errors and redirects.
- Check the Page Titles and Meta Description tabs for missing, duplicate, or too-long entries.
- Export the results to a spreadsheet. This is your master to-do list for the On-Page and Technical phases.
Done whenThe crawl export is saved as a dated spreadsheet.
Tools for this stepScreaming Frog SEO Spider
Tips & pitfalls
- Over 500 pages? Crawl your most important sections first, one batch at a time. The free version can't save crawls, so export before you close it.