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6 best Screaming Frog alternatives in 2026
The 6 best Screaming Frog alternatives in 2026, compared by price, crawl limits and where they run. Desktop and cloud crawlers, plus pay-per-run checks.
SEO audits and checklists
Step-by-step audits for technical SEO, AI readiness and site launches.
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How to check your website's SEO in 15 minutes
Check website SEO yourself in about 15 minutes with Google search, Search Console, view source and PageSpeed Insights, and know when to automate it.
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Local SEO checklist: what your website needs to rank nearby
A local SEO checklist for your own website. Location pages, NAP in the HTML, tel links, LocalBusiness markup, maps and service areas, with a test for each.
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Programmatic SEO: when it works and when it is spam
Programmatic SEO builds many pages from one template and a dataset. Learn when it works, where Google draws the spam line and how to roll it out safely.
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SEO for SaaS: what is different and what to do first
SaaS SEO done in the right order. Split the app from the marketing site, fix JavaScript rendering, then win comparison, integration and AI answer queries.
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SEO APIs: what you can automate
An SEO API lets scripts and AI agents pull search data and run site checks. What Google's APIs, audit APIs and keyword data APIs each do, with a real request.
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How to do an SEO audit: the order, the checks and the fix list
How to do an SEO audit in five steps. Record a baseline, check crawling and indexing, review page templates, then sort the fix list by impact.
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SEO audit report template that gets fixes shipped
A copyable SEO audit report template in Markdown with a summary, scores, prioritized issues with impact, effort and owner, evidence, next steps and a recheck.
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SEO checklist for a new website: before and after launch
An SEO checklist for a new website in launch order. Clear staging blocks, set up Search Console and Bing, submit the sitemap, redirect the old site.
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SEO for startups: what to do first and what to skip
SEO for startups with no SEO hire. When search is worth your time, the one-afternoon foundations, what to skip, and how to get named in AI answers.
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Agentic SEO with an SEO MCP server
What an SEO MCP server is, how agentic SEO works when a coding agent checks, fixes and rechecks a page, and what to look for before you connect one.
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What your SEO score means, and what it can't tell you
An SEO score is a number a tool calculates, not a Google metric. Learn what goes into one, why scores differ between tools and how to use yours.
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Small business SEO: what to do with a few hours a month
Small business SEO for owners doing it themselves. Where a few hours a month go furthest, from Google Business Profile and reviews to titles and AI answers.
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Technical SEO: a practical guide
Technical SEO explained through crawl, render, index and serve. What matters most, what is overrated, and how the same work now decides what AI crawlers read.
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Technical SEO checklist: what to check and how to test it
A technical SEO checklist for crawling, indexing, canonicals, redirects, sitemaps, rendering, speed, schema and hreflang, with a one-line test per item.
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Common technical SEO issues and how to fix them
The technical SEO issues that keep pages out of Google, from stray noindex tags to redirect chains and slow LCP, with the symptom, cause and fix for each.
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Website audit checklist: SEO, content, speed and AI
A website audit checklist for site owners covering search visibility, content, conversions, speed, security, accessibility and AI search, and how to check each.
Check how your site reads to search and AI engines
Enter a URL to see how ready the site is for search engines, answer engines and AI search, with the fixes in order.
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