14 in-depth guides, free to read

SEO Guides

Comprehensive, data-backed guides for every SEO discipline. Technical audits, AI search optimization, SaaS SEO, local SEO, and more.

How to Perform a Technical SEO Audit

Technical SEO

The complete 8-step guide to technical SEO auditing. Covers crawlability, indexation, Core Web Vitals, structured data, security, and prioritization.

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How to Rank in ChatGPT, Claude & AI Search

AI Search

Data-backed guide to AI search optimization. Covers every platform, technical setup, content structure, authority signals, and what to measure.

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SaaS SEO: Complete Guide to Ranking Your Product

SaaS

13-section SaaS SEO playbook: inverted funnel strategy, product-led content, hub-and-spoke architecture, technical foundation, and AI visibility.

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SEO KPI Report: 20 Metrics to Track

Reporting

20 KPIs across 5 categories with a 3-tier reporting framework. Revenue, traffic, rankings, technical health, and AI search visibility.

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How Much Does an SEO Audit Cost?

Pricing

Complete pricing breakdown by provider type, audit type, and DIY tools. Freelancer ($500-$2K), agency ($2K-$7.5K), enterprise ($5K-$30K+).

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The Complete Local SEO Audit Guide

Local SEO

Everything you need to run a professional local SEO audit: GMB audit, NAP consistency, local citations, on-page factors, and schema markup.

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Enterprise SEO Audit Guide (100K+ Pages)

Enterprise

How to audit enterprise sites: crawl budget management, JS rendering at scale, hreflang validation, log file analysis, and engineering buy-in.

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Shopify SEO Audit: Fix the 12 Most Costly Issues

Shopify

The 12 Shopify-specific SEO issues that cost you rankings: duplicate URLs, tag pages, app bloat, collection pages, and more.

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Google March 2026 Core Update: Impact & Recovery

Algorithm

Analysis of the March 2026 core update. What changed, who was affected, and how to recover. Covers AI content, CWV changes, and E-E-A-T.

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Surfer SEO vs Ahrefs: Which Do You Need?

Comparison

Head-to-head comparison across 9 categories. Content optimization vs research platform. Decision framework for 7 user profiles.

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How to Choose SEO Software

Buying

Feature lists are identical across every platform, so they cannot decide anything. Four questions that can: data provenance, retention, export, and what a tool does when it is unsure.

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Search Console vs GA4: Why the Numbers Never Match

Analytics

A click and a session are different events counted in different places. Which direction the gap leans tells you which cause to check, and what size of gap is normal.

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How to Find Orphan Pages

Technical SEO

A crawler follows internal links, so it can never find a page that has none. The join that can: crawl against sitemap, Search Console and GA4, plus how to triage what it returns.

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Is SEO Dead in 2026?

AI Search

Four parts of the argument are true and the conclusion is not. Zero-click growth is real; whether it kills your traffic depends entirely on your intent mix.

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Put the guides into practice

Every guide recommends running a technical audit first. CrawlRaven does it in under 10 minutes with 200+ automated checks.