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Everyone says submit to SaaS directories so AI finds you. I measured 172 citations across 4 categories. Directories got 1.
The advice is everywhere and it sounds right: get listed on G2, Capterra, AlternativeTo, SaaSHub, Crunchbase and Product Hunt, because that is where A…
13 of the 14 tools AI recommends in my category are on the same list. I am not on it.
I build a tool that checks whether AI assistants name your product. So I pointed it at my own category and let it run for a week. 39 different buyer q…
A 200 Response Does Not Prove an AI Crawler Can Read Your Site
A crawlability check often begins with a comforting result: request the homepage, receive HTTP 200, and declare the site open. That conclusion is too …
Dev Log: 2026-07-23 — a portfolio-wide SEO pass
TL;DR Ran the same SEO + analytics checklist across five public repos and a couple of private ones in one day. Different stacks (Laravel, Next.js, Ast…
The AI Summary Said "It's Not a Scam." The Springboard Was Your Site's Search Box
Last August, a man planning a cruise googled Royal Caribbean's customer service number. Google's AI Overview served him a phone number at the top of t…
The SEO advice of the past ten years doesn't work the way it used to
I still remember the spreadsheet. Keyword, search volume, difficulty score. Pick the keyword, hit the target density, write the meta description, done…
SEO‑поиск в Next.js App Router, индексируемые landing pages из фильтров и URL
Поиск в Next.js App Router связывает несколько механизмов — Server Components, dynamic routes, searchParams , metadata и клиентские фильтры.…
It Looked Done. It Wasn't." The Hidden Cost of Vibe-Coded Client Sites
It Looked Done. It Wasn't. There's a pattern I keep seeing with new developers lately, and it usually starts the same way. Someone's a week or two int…
The hard part of building with AI isn't the code — it's catching the BS
A game called Pathogenic launched on July 16. It's a roguelike where you play as a parasite inside the human body. By launch day, I had a full wiki fo…
Your blog's link preview is probably broken — here's a 1-line CI check
The silent bug that quietly kills your click-through You add <meta property="og:image" content="..."> , the preview looks fine when you test it,…
Trendigger – Aggregated Google Trends with AI keyword summaries and daily historical archives
Like many of you, I use Google Trends to research market interest, but dealing with raw trend lists and checking them day-by-day can be time-consuming…
The number that lied: rebuilding a usage meter that actually helps
Short version first, for anyone who just wants the outcome: I run Claude Code on a flat monthly subscription, not pay-as-you-go. For months that plan …
How I Built a Free AI Prompt Library With Node.js and PostgreSQL — From Zero to Live in 30 Days
If you have been following my Dev.to articles, you know I built Chatzyo — a real-time video chat platform using WebRTC. That project taught me a lot a…
Why Some Next.js Sites Show Empty HTML in Page Source (It's Not a Bug)
Why do some large websites show almost empty HTML in "View Page Source" even when built with Next.js? You open the page, check the source, and barely …
Почему сайт невидим для роботов: проблемы вайб-кодинга
Вайб-кодинг уронил порог входа до плинтуса: Lovable, Bolt или v0 соберут лендинг за вечер. А потом сайт неделями болтается на …
Half the web already hands you clean product data. You just have to ask.
I once spent an afternoon writing selectors to pull a price off a product page. Wrote the CSS path, handled the currency symbol, dealt with the sale-p…
My First Real Keyword Research, Step by Step
Day 4 of my SEO journey. How I built my first keyword list, matched keywords to search intent, and picked my first easy targets. Almost 92% of all sea…
What actually got our articles cited by ChatGPT (and what didn't)
A few weeks ago I found out our site had a table of contents that rendered for absolutely nobody. The code was there. The CSS was there. It had been s…
I run an affiliate code. Seven fake ones outrank it — and Google's AI believes them.
Disclosure up front: I'm a Chatwoot affiliate. The links in this post are affiliate links, and the code I mention earns me a commission. That's exactl…
Building Profitable Niche Lifestyle Stores: A Developer's Guide to E-Commerce Essentials
Building Profitable Niche Lifestyle Stores: A Developer's Guide to E-Commerce Essentials Launching a niche lifestyle e-commerce store is more than jus…
The one-line bug that broke Open Graph cards on 836 pages
For about a month, every social preview card on a site I build was silently cut off mid-word. Not truncated with an ellipsis — cut inside a word. PDF …
I built a lint that caught 3 tax-rule lies my manual sweep missed — a pattern-based safety net for hand-maintained SEO
Three Sundays ago I found seven pages on my site independently asserting something factually wrong about Indian tax law. The .razor sources were all c…
Six directory emails promised me a dofollow backlink. My 40-line PowerShell verifier said otherwise.
Every few days now, my inbox gets another version of the same email: "Hi there! 👋 We discovered your product and think it's a great fit. Submit it and…
I Tested Dozens of Marketing Channels. These 10 Actually Worked.
Shipping a product feels like the hard part. Then you launch into silence and realize distribution was the real challenge. For a long time, I thought …
SEO for Developers: Stop Focusing on Keywords and Start Fixing the DOM
Most developer guides on SEO are written by marketers. They tell you to find the right keywords or write better meta descriptions. While that matters …
How to Migrate WordPress to Next.js Without Losing Your SEO
Most “WordPress to Next.js” tutorials show you how to fetch posts from the WP REST API and render them in the App Router. That’s the easy 20%. The 80%…
Everything we got wrong caching a multi-tenant SaaS on one domain
Every page we serve falls into one of four buckets, and they want opposite things from a cache: Marketing pages never change between deploys. Blog art…
Google Trends ties its data tokens to your IP and it broke my scraper in a way I didn't expect
I just shipped a Google Trends scraper as an Apify Actor ( https://apify.com/swiftscrape/google-trends-fast-scraper ), and the most interesting part w…
CMS apps explained: what marketing and product teams actually get
If you're researching CMS apps for your team and finding yourself buried in feature matrices and pricing pages, this is the post to read first. Before…