How to audit your own robots.txt for AI crawler access
Fourteen AI crawlers, what each one does, and how to decide which to allow.
We published 95 posts in a month. Here is what that actually did.
An honest account of a high-volume publishing push, what it cost, and what we would do differently.
Faceted navigation is where crawl budget goes to die
Filter combinations generate infinite URLs. How to keep facets crawlable without generating duplicates.
Nine pages, one query: how we consolidated our own cannibalisation
We found 48 posts competing across 22 clusters on our own site. What we merged and how we chose.
llms.txt Explained: Is It Worth Your Time Yet?
What the file does, who reads it, and an honest view of its current adoption.
Redirect Chains: The Crawl Budget You Are Wasting on Nothing
One hop is fine. Thousands of hops across a site is a tax you pay on every crawl.
Pixel width, not character count: how Google actually truncates titles
Why a 60-character title in capitals gets cut and a 70-character one does not.
Why your canonical tag might not be read at all
Attribute order, conflicting signals and self-reference. The canonical mistakes that quietly de-index pages.
The noindex you cannot see: X-Robots-Tag and disappearing pages
A noindex sent as an HTTP header renders nothing in the page source. How to find it and why pages vanish without explanation.
We Scanned 148 Businesses in 20 Cities. Only 16% Sign Their Work.
A 148-site study across 20 cities and five countries. Structured data is near-universal at 85%. Author attribution sits at 16.2% – and India leads the world on it.
The Web Is Blocking AI Training, Not AI Search: What 506 Top Sites Actually Do
We checked the robots.txt of 506 of the world’s most-visited websites against 14 AI crawlers. Sites block AI training crawlers roughly twice as often as retrieval crawlers.
Keyword Research Guide: How to Find the Right Keywords for SEO
A step-by-step keyword research guide: how to find keywords, evaluate search volume and competition, analyze search intent, and prioritize your keyword list.
SEO for Hotels: How to Increase Direct Bookings from Search
A complete guide to SEO for hotels: how to increase direct bookings from Google search, optimize your Google Business Profile, build travel directory citations, create room and amenity pages, and reduce OTA commission dependency.
YouTube SEO: How to Rank Your Videos in 2026
A complete YouTube SEO guide: how to optimize video titles, descriptions, thumbnails, tags, and engagement signals to rank higher in YouTube search results in 2026.
Link Building Strategies: 7 White-Hat Methods That Work in 2026
A guide to link building strategies for 2026: linkable assets, guest posting, digital PR, broken link building, and which strategies to avoid.