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Ayush Garg

Ayush Garg

Co-founder, CrawlRaven · 6+ years building SaaS content & SEO products

Ayush has 6+ years of experience building SaaS products and content strategies in the SEO space. As co-founder of CrawlRaven, he writes from hands-on experience building deep-crawl audit tools and solving the technical SEO problems agencies actually face.

Articles by Ayush Garg (11)

How to Do Technical SEO With AI: My Step-by-Step Workflow (2026)

The exact way I run technical SEO with AI now — feeding crawl data to ChatGPT and Claude for prioritization, generating and validating schema, fixing robots.txt and redirects, and making a site AI-crawler ready. With copy-paste prompts and real screenshots.

June 13, 202617 min readtechnical-seo

Moz DA vs Ahrefs DR: The Complete 2026 Comparison

Moz Domain Authority and Ahrefs Domain Rating both score domains 0–100 — but they measure different things, update at wildly different speeds, and disagree constantly. Here's exactly how each is calculated, how they correlate with rankings, which to trust for link building vs. reporting, what a 'good' score is, and how to check any site's DR free.

June 12, 202618 min readcomparisons

Google Search Profiles: What They Are, Who Qualifies, and How to Claim Yours (2026)

Google launched Search profiles — a claimable, shareable page that surfaces your articles, videos, and social posts and lets audiences follow you into Discover. Here's what they are, the follower thresholds to qualify, how to claim yours, and our take on why Google is really shipping this: it's rebuilding publisher traffic around following instead of clicks.

June 5, 202613 min readseo-news

Google Search Console AI Performance Reports: What They Track (and the Clicks Problem)

Google launched a dedicated Generative AI features performance report in Search Console — showing impressions in AI Overviews and AI Mode — plus a new toggle to block your content from AI responses. Here's what the report tracks, what it leaves out (clicks, position, queries), how to read it, and whether you should ever opt out.

June 3, 202614 min readseo-news

Raven Tools vs Semrush 2026: Honest 9-Category Comparison (After Testing Both)

Raven Tools vs Semrush compared across 9 categories — white-label reporting, site audit depth, keyword research, competitor analysis, backlinks, rank tracking, AI visibility, content marketing, and pricing. Real 2026 prices, G2 ratings, and a category-by-category verdict. Spoiler: Semrush wins 7 of 9.

May 29, 202619 min readcomparisons

DuckDuckGo Installs +30% After Google I/O 2026: What the AI Search Backlash Actually Means for SEO

TechCrunch reports DuckDuckGo US installs averaged +18.1% week-over-week and peaked at +30.5% on May 25, 2026 — but DDG's own Google Trends interest peaked in 2024 and is now ~60% off that high. We compare the install surge to the search-interest curve, work through Lily Ray's 'why didn't this happen earlier' question, and lay out what it means for SEO teams.

May 27, 202612 min readseo-news

10 Best Raven Tools Alternatives & Competitors in 2026 (Compared by Use Case)

The 10 best Raven Tools alternatives and competitors in 2026 — compared by what part of Raven you're actually replacing. Real pricing, Capterra ratings, and verbatim user reviews for AgencyAnalytics, Semrush, SE Ranking, Ahrefs, DashThis, Whatagraph, Looker Studio, Improvado, Morningscore, and CrawlRaven.

May 25, 202622 min readcomparisons

Raven Tools Review 2026: Pricing, Features, Verdict (After TapClicks)

An honest Raven Tools review covering pricing ($39–$479/mo), Marketing Reports, Competitor Domain Research, Site Auditor, and what changed after the 2017 TapClicks acquisition. Real G2 and Capterra ratings, verbatim user reviews, and who should (and shouldn't) buy in 2026.

May 25, 202617 min readreviews

Google May 2026 Core Update: Live Tracking, Volatility Data & Recovery Guide

Google's May 2026 Core Update started rolling out May 21 and is expected to complete by ~June 4. Live volatility data, verified primary-source quotes, the same-week-as-I/O recovery measurement problem, and a diagnostic flowchart for site owners.

May 23, 202616 min readseo-news

10 Best Ahrefs Alternatives in 2026 (Compared by Use Case)

Tested and compared by use case: the 10 best Ahrefs alternatives in 2026. Covers Semrush, Mangools, Moz Pro, SE Ranking, Majestic, Ubersuggest, Sitebulb, Screaming Frog, SEO PowerSuite, and CrawlRaven — with verified pricing, real Capterra + G2 ratings, and Reddit-sourced recommendations.

May 23, 202626 min readcomparisons

Google I/O 2026: Every Major Search Update (The AI Search Era Has Begun)

A deep-dive breakdown of every Search announcement from Google I/O 2026 (May 19–20): the Intelligent Search Box, Gemini 3.5 Flash, Information Agents, Generative UI, Personal Intelligence, and what they all mean for SEO and publishers in 2026.

May 22, 202632 min readseo-news