SEO tool review: Craawler

There is a lot of SEO tools out there. Choosing the tool depends on a task and a project at hands. You can select SEO tools by task such as keyword research tools. But more often you’d need a tool that can quickly analyze a website for main SEO elements. There’s a number of those too. But this time I’d like to share my experience with Craawler.

I was recently talking to Tom Johns, a creator of Craawler: SEO & Spellcheck Robot and wanted to share my interest in the tool with you. Here’s why this SEO tool caught my attention and why this SEO tool may of use to you:

1. It’s simple, quick and easy to use: put your domain name in and choose a language for the spellchecker
2. It’s free (not event ad-supported), and, according to Tom, he’s not going to make it a paid SEO tool, ever.
3. In my chat with him Tom sounded like a cool guy, who wants to develop an interesting thing.
4. Although I believe that clean spelling is important, I’ve never seen an SEO tool that allowed you to check your spelling.
5. It gives you a very quick domain snapshot: IP address, host location, pages indexed by Google.
6. It quickly checks if the site being reviewed has robots.txt and sitemap.xml properly setup.
7. Craawler looks at canonical tags on the page.
8. Advanced options allow you to exclude certain pages of your website from the crawl.
9. Advanced options also allow you to exclude words from the crawl. I guess this should solve my #1 problem below.

These are some things that I’d recommend improving on:

1. Spell checker seems to have a limited library of terms. For example, things like SEO, internet and copywriting showed up as spelling errors.
2. A larger site takes longer to check through. I realize that Tom is saying that the tool will respond as quickly as my hosting servers, but still, checking my site took a few minutes.
3. No option to save reports. For example, after I ran my website and waited a few minutes, I accidentally closed the browser window. The next day I wanted to check on results again, but had to run the entire report again.
4. No option to export results. That would be handy to solve me previous problem. Also, it would be cool to save results in a PDF or XLS file.

After all, every tool is useful at its own time. Craawler is great for a quick SEO site review. I really hope Tom goes on and improves the tool. I strongly suggest you use the tool and provide Tom with recommendations to improve it.

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