Tool reviews, tutorials, and comparisons: Screaming Frog, SEMrush, Ahrefs, Microsoft Clarity, Google Search Console, toolbox roundups
The traditional tools for monitoring how search engines crawl your website—Google Search Console’s Crawl Stats, log file analyzers, even enterprise crawl platforms—all have significant limitations. For large sites that need to track both traditional search engines and the growing array of AI crawlers, there’s a better approach: partnering with your site reliability engineering team. The…
Sam Torres from Gray Dot Agency brought a practical message to Tech SEO Connect: stop using LLMs for everything. When you have structured, tabular data—the kind we work with constantly in SEO—machine learning models are faster, cheaper, more accurate, and won’t make things up. “I’ve seen a lot of times where people are using LLMs…
Dana DiTomaso brought 25 years of experience to Tech SEO Connect with a simple premise: “It’s almost 2026. Why am I looking for problems instead of having problems come to me?” She wants issues to pop up and say “hello, I’m a problem, please fix me” rather than requiring manual crawls to discover them. Her…
Baruch Toledano from SimilarWeb delivered a talk that pulled back the curtain on how large-scale SEO platforms actually work. Not the features you see in the UI—the engineering decisions that make those features possible and trustworthy. His core message: in 2025, building trust in data has become much harder. The pace of AI capability is…
Here’s the thing about modern SEO: user experience signals now account for over 40% of ranking factors, and if your WordPress site isn’t engaging visitors within 3 seconds, you’re hemorrhaging both traffic and rankings. That’s where Chatly comes in: not just another chatbot, but a comprehensive AI-powered platform that’s fundamentally changing how search marketers approach…
AI bots are crawling your website right now, and you probably don’t even know it. While traditional search engine crawlers like Googlebot have been on SEO professionals’ radar for decades, a new generation of artificial intelligence crawlers from OpenAI, Anthropic, Perplexity, and other AI platforms are silently consuming your content for training data, real-time citations,…
Google has quietly launched one of its most ambitious AI tools yet: and it's creating waves across the digital marketing world. Opal, a no-code AI application builder, promises to help businesses "create optimized content in a scalable way." But here's where it gets interesting: Google's own marketing language for Opal appears to directly contradict their…
If you’re diving into local SEO and want to keep an eye on how you’re doing in specific areas, there’s a bunch of cool tools out there ready to help you out. Here’s the lowdown on some of the top picks that can give you the inside scoop on your local keyword rankings: Each of…
Welcome to my 6th annual What’s in my SEO Toolbox post. If you’ve read this post in the past, you’ll note that there’s a lot of consistency with respect to my choices. There are two reasons for that. First, these are damn good tools and their developers keep improving them year after year. Second, as…
For anyone who really interested in the Customer Journey – not just how people find your website, but how they use it – Microsoft’s integration of Clarity with Bing Webmaster tools is a welcome step forward. Clarity allows website owners, administrators, and analysts, to see exactly what visitors are doing on their website without infringing…
