I tested DeepSeek’s new search API. Here’s how it ranks and scores websites
DeepSeek opened its search API with authority scores and a promise to filter SEO and GEO spam. I spent $0.08 testing what it actually returns.
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How to Find Out Who Gemini Cites for Your Query, and Why It Isn't You
Find out which pages Gemini cites for your query, which of their claims your page misses, and what to change. A guide to the free Gemini Grounding Gap Checker, stage by stage.
Your Google Search Console queries need context
A free tool that sorts a Google Search Console query export against a short business brief, how Jev labels each query, and what to do with the queries it rejects.
I made my website charge AI agents a penny per page. Then I watched Claude pay it.
Google is testing paying publishers when their pages feed its AI answers, on terms only Google can see. My site runs the other version over x402. It returns HTTP 402 to AI agents and unlocks for a cent in USDC, with a public receipt for every crawl, which is the loop those Cloudflare wallet handles will run.
One Page Earned 102,657 Image Impressions and 2 Clicks. I Shipped 8 Free Tools That Find Pages Like It.
Image search on one client site ran at 64% of web's impressions and 11% of its clicks, and no tool in the stack could see it. The new GSC MCP update ships 8 free image SEO tools that read that surface and audit the pages behind it.
ChatGPT Searches Individual Subreddits by Name
A capture this week has ChatGPT targeting one subreddit directly, with a ten-year window, on a query where Bing returns no Reddit at all. Reddit was 48 of the 71 pages it fetched and won 6 of the 8 citations. Four days earlier, a different query gave Reddit none of eleven.
ChatGPT Rebuilt Its Search Tool. I Read the New Language It Speaks.
Between 16th and 20th August, ChatGPT's search tool call went from JSON to a compact query language with freshness windows, domain targeting and separate verticals for products, places, images and widgets. I captured both sides of the change on the same account, with the same question. Here's the full map, and what each part means for getting cited.
How to Track Google AI Mode Traffic in Search Console
Four ways to surface AI Mode and AI Overview queries hiding in Search Console, from a custom regex to a free classifier that labels 100,000 queries per run.
"Yes, Go On": The AI Conversations Leaking Into Your Search Console
A classifier for the AI conversations leaking into Search Console. Seven kinds, from human replies and comparison questions to tracker bots and agent prompts, built from sixteen months of my own data and released as a free tool you run with one prompt.
ChatGPT Already Knows Who's In The Running Before It Searches
ChatGPT writes brand names into its own search query before it fetches a single page. I read the traffic across 60 conversations to work out when it happens, what being named is worth, and what actually gets you onto that list.
Common Crawl Published a Manual for Being Visible to AI. I Automated It.
Common Crawl's own AI Visibility Audit tells you to check your training data standing by hand. I automated it. My free checker reads 12 months of Common Crawl history for any domain or single page, dates the month a CCBot block appeared, tells you whether a CDN template wrote it, and hands you the fix.
How Perplexity Actually Picks Sources (I Read the Stream, Not the Answers)
I read Perplexity's raw answer stream to see how it picks sources, which domains get cited by intent, and how to show up in and get cited by Perplexity.
FanoutFox: A Free ChatGPT SEO Tool That Shows How It Picks Sources
FanoutFox is a free generative engine optimization (GEO) tool and ChatGPT rank tracker. It reads your own ChatGPT session and shows the fan-out queries, the sources it fetched, who got cited, who got mentioned, and who beat you on each claim. Free, local, one click.
ChatGPT Changed How It Picks Sources While You Were Reading My Last Post
A reader found a source pipeline I'd never seen, so I went back into ChatGPT's network traffic 10 days after the first teardown. Some of it had changed underneath me, I caught 2 of my own over-reaches, and I found the layer that shows who you lose citations to.
How ChatGPT Actually Picks Sources (I Read the Network Traffic, Not the Outputs)
I read 2 days of ChatGPT's raw network traffic to see how it picks sources, which domains get cited, and how to rank in and get cited by ChatGPT.
I Shipped Agentic Resource Discovery on This Site (And a Client Found Me)
Google and 10 others shipped Agentic Resource Discovery. I added an ai-catalog.json to this site, validated it against the official tool, and a reference client discovered my capabilities. Here is the build and the Cloudflare catch.
Open Knowledge Format (OKF): Google's New Markdown Format for AI Agents
Google shipped OKF, the Open Knowledge Format, a markdown standard for handing your content to AI agents. What it is, what it does and does not do, and how to generate your bundle free.
How to Get a Google Search Profile From Outside the US
Google Search profiles are US only for now, but you can open yours from anywhere today. Here is how, plus how claiming works and the noindex catch nobody mentions.
How to Unlock "Not Provided" Keywords in Google Analytics
The 3 ways to recover your organic keyword data after Google hid it in 2013. Search Console linking, BigQuery pipelines, and third party tools compared honestly. Includes a free open source skill whose methodology is fully inspectable, the opposite of the paid black boxes.
How to Make Your Website Agent-Ready (And Whether You Actually Should)
A technical guide to the protocols, headers, and well-known files that make a website readable by AI agents. With the SEO argument, the case study, and an honest look on whether you should bother yet.
I Run My Newsletter for $8/mo. The Self-Hosted Alternative to Beehiiv, Kit, and MailerLite.
The self-hosted alternative to Beehiiv, Kit (ConvertKit), MailerLite, Substack, and Resend. My newsletter runs on Listmonk + AWS SES for $8/mo with a cost comparison at 1k/5k/10k/50k subscribers.
The Three Lives of Schema Markup: A Beginner's Guide to How Google and LLMs Actually Use It
Schema markup is read by 3 completely different systems for 3 completely different purposes. Most articles conflate them. Here is what each one actually does, in plain English, with examples.
WebMCP: I Made My Website AI Agent Ready (Here's How)
A practical guide to implementing WebMCP on your website. What it is, how it works, and a full walkthrough of adding MCP tools to a personal site so AI agents can interact with it directly.
Keyword Hunt: I Built a Technical SEO Puzzle.
Keyword Hunt is live. Twenty single-word keywords cloaked using real technical SEO, AI SEO, and edge engineering. The first 10 to find all 20 get permanent Elite status in the Hall of Fame.
I Built an MCP That Turns Keyword Clusters Into SEO Content Calendars
A new MCP that turns a Keyword Insights clustering CSV into a scheduled SEO content calendar in 3 minutes. Intent mismatch detection, Excel export, free and open source.
GA4 + GSC in BigQuery: 6 Tools That Finally Answer "What Are My Keywords Worth?"
Connect Google Analytics 4 and Search Console data in BigQuery through Claude. Revenue per keyword, content ROI diagnosis, position value modelling, and 3 more tools. Free, open source.
Cloudflare Markdown for Agents. I Tracked Every AI Request for 44 Days.
Cloudflare has a beta feature that serves clean markdown to AI agents. I enabled it, built a tracking layer, and logged every request for 44 days. 1,421 requests. Claude was the second biggest consumer. Here is everything I found.
How to Run an LLM Locally. Your Data Never Leaves Your Machine.
A practical guide to running AI models locally with Ollama and LM Studio. Complete privacy, zero API costs, and surprisingly good performance on consumer hardware.
I Tested 3 Ways to Forecast SEO Traffic. Here Is What Actually Works.
I ran the same 486 days of GSC data through Claude, ARIMA, and Meta Prophet. All 3 landed within 10% of each other, but what you get around the numbers is completely different. Free setup guide included.
I Made 10 SEO Predictions in 2020. Here Is My Scorecard.
In 2020, I published SEO predictions on the Moz blog. Six years later, I grade myself honestly. What I got right, what I got wrong, and what nobody saw coming.
BigQuery MCP Server: 32 SEO Tools for Your GSC + GA4 Data Warehouse
Connect Claude to Google BigQuery with 32 built-in tools. Revenue per keyword via GA4 + GSC blending, ML traffic forecasting, anomaly detection, anonymous query analysis, and more. Free, open source, full setup guide.
Google Search Console MCP: Step by Step Setup Guide (OAuth + 29 Free Tools)
Connect Claude to your Google Search Console in 5 minutes with OAuth. 29 free analysis tools: quick wins, content decay, cannibalisation, image SEO, alerting, and Indexing API. Full guide with screenshots.
How I Lost My YouTube Handle to a Bot in a Millisecond
I released my YouTube handle to transfer it between channels. A bot sniped it in seconds. Here is what happened, what YouTube did about it, and why you should never release a username on any platform.
How to Get Your Dream Handle on X (Twitter)
The full process of claiming an inactive X username, from Premium Plus to approval. How I went from @Suganthanmn to @suganthan.
How to Use the Wayback Machine to Recover Lost Content
I lost 53 images during a site migration. The Wayback Machine CDX API got every single one back. Here is the exact process, the commands, and a free Claude skill that automates the whole thing.
How to Connect the Ahrefs MCP Server to Manus
Ahrefs has an official MCP server. Manus has an official MCP integration. The connection didn't work out of the box. This is what happened, what I learned, and the working setup including a downloadable Manus skill.
Rowboat Gave Me an AI Coworker That Actually Remembers Everything
An honest guide to Rowboat, the open source AI assistant that builds a private knowledge graph from your emails and meetings. How to set it up, why local models save you money, and what you can actually do with it.
I Built a macOS App With Zero Swift Knowledge. Here's How You Can Too.
A beginner friendly guide to building macOS and iOS apps using AI vibe coding assistants in Xcode. No Swift experience needed. Works with your existing Claude or ChatGPT subscription.
I Built an AI Skill That Does My Least Favourite Part of SEO
I open sourced a Claude skill that turns any crawl export into a scored, prioritised technical SEO audit with platform specific fix instructions. It replaces the 6 hours of spreadsheet work after every crawl.
How I Added an AI Chat to My Personal Website
A step by step guide on how I built a RAG powered AI assistant on my site using Cloudflare Vectorize, Workers AI, and Claude. It answers questions about my blog posts, opinions and personal knowledge.
How Our Remote Team Saves $31,500/Year Using One Platform Instead of Nine
In 2024, I shared how Roam replaced six tools for our remote team. Two years later, it replaces nine. Here is an updated look at what Roam offers, what it costs, and why we still use it every day.
How I Built This Site: From WordPress to Astro, TinaCMS, and Cloudflare Workers
Why I tore down my WordPress site and rebuilt it from scratch with Astro 5, TinaCMS, and Cloudflare Workers. The story behind the decisions, the challenges, and what I learned.
OpenClaw for SEO: What It Is, How to Set It Up, and Use Cases That Actually Matter
A practical guide to OpenClaw for SEO. What it is, how it differs from ChatGPT and Claude, setup instructions, and real SEO use cases.
I Put OpenClaw Inside My Ray Ban Meta Glasses. Here Is How.
How VisionClaw connects Meta Ray Ban smart glasses to Google Gemini and OpenClaw for real time voice, vision, and agentic actions.
Logfile Analysis for SEO
Understanding how search engine crawlers interact with your website through server log analysis.
What Will It Mean to Do SEO in 2020 and Beyond?
Exploring the evolution of SEO as search engines become smarter and user behaviour shifts across platforms.
SEO Competitor Analysis: How Do I Find My Niche Rivals?
How to effectively analyse your SEO competitors to find opportunities and inform your strategy.
Frustrating SEO Problems
A deep dive into common and frustrating SEO problems facing webmasters and SEOs, from zero-click results to GMB spam and shrinking organic landscapes.
A Guide to Outsourcing SEO
A comprehensive guide to outsourcing SEO — from finding the right agency or freelancer to managing projects and measuring success.
Don't Let Your Website Redesign Become an SEO Disaster
A comprehensive guide to preserving your SEO equity during a website redesign, covering URL strategy, redirects, and post-launch monitoring.
19 Actionable SEO Tips
A comprehensive guide with 19 actionable SEO tips covering keyword research, featured snippets, video optimisation, local SEO, schema markup, and more.
Why We Need to Start Thinking About Next-Gen Image Formats
Exploring next-gen image formats like WebP, JPEG 2000, and JPEG XR — why they matter for SEO and web performance.
Rank Math SEO Plugin Review from an SEO Consultant (2026 Update)
I first reviewed Rank Math in 2019 when it was the new kid on the block. Seven years, 3 million users, and an AI overhaul later, here is an honest update on where it stands in 2026.
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