User guide

How SEO Bee works

Eight chapters, from installation to the command line. If you are just starting, read them in order. If you are after one task, such as broken links or a sitemap, go to the tutorials.

Chapter 01

Installation and licence activation

How to install SEO Bee on Windows, start it for the first time and activate your licence with your email address to remove the 500 URL limit.

Read → Chapter 02

First crawl: whole site or URL list

Enter an address, choose Whole site or URL list mode and send the bee out. What happens while the crawl runs and when it finishes.

Read → Chapter 03

Crawl settings

Limits, speed, robots.txt, JavaScript rendering, including and excluding URLs, logging in to a site, and settings templates.

Read → Chapter 04

Tabs, filters and URL details

What each of the 32 tabs shows, how the filters work and what you see in the bottom panel when you click a single URL.

Read → Chapter 05

Exports, bulk exports and reports

Export one tab and filter, whole tables of links and images, or a ready-made report as CSV and Excel. Plus a report for your client.

Read → Chapter 06

Search Console, Analytics, PageSpeed and AI

Connect Google Search Console and GA4, switch on local Lighthouse and accessibility checks, and add AI queries for each page.

Read → Chapter 07

Schedules, segments and crawl comparison

Schedule a crawl to start on its own, split your site into segments and compare two crawls to see what has changed.

Read → Chapter 08

Command line and MCP server

Run crawls and exports without the app window, from a script or Task Scheduler, or let an AI agent read the findings over MCP.

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