The tools your agency pays for every month should earn their seat at the table. The problem is most SEO stacks grow by accident; one subscription added for a pitch, another inherited from a previous team lead, a third because a client asked about backlinks once. The inevitable situation looks like this: bloated tooling costs, […]
It started with a Slack message. Our colleague Stan sent a screenshot with a single line: “Look, I think I found fan-outs in GSC.” The first reaction was skeptical: we hear about the AI revolution every day. But the data looked different. It wasn’t a few random long-tail keywords. It was a pattern, repeating across […]
The topmost challenge faced by inbound marketers today is generating traffic and leads. Hence, growing their organic presence/ SEO is their number one priority. The market reflects this reality. The enterprise SEO platforms market was valued at $9.63 billion in 2024 and is projected to reach $58.2 billion by 2035. Separately, 55% of enterprise-level companies […]
If you want to grow organic search revenue, you need to know which SEO metrics to track – and what each one is actually telling you. This guide covers the most important SEO metrics to measure in 2026, from foundational traffic and ranking data to advanced technical signals like crawl behavior, Core Web Vitals and […]
When it comes to SEO, it is dangerously easy to drown in data. Technical audits, keyword rankings, backlink counts, crawl stats – the list never ends. But data alone does not grow a business. That is where SEO KPIs come in. SEO KPIs (Key Performance Indicators) are the select few metrics that connect your organic […]
Rankings and traffic are no longer the starting point. They’re the outcome of decisions made before a user ever reaches the SERP. AI-driven systems now determine what information gets surfaced, which version is relevant for each market and how identical keywords map to entirely different intent depending on context. That shift fundamentally rewrites how you […]
“Do I need canonical tags on every page of my site?” It’s one of the most common questions in technical SEO and the answer is more nuanced than a simple yes or no. Most sites have more duplication than they realize. Filtered category pages are a classic example: you set up robots.txt rules, point canonicals […]
If you use dynamic or client-side rendering, make sure Googlebot sees the correct HTML and content. With dynamic rendering, pre-rendering applies only to search engines and Googlebots, not to all clients. There are also cases where the web page version for Googlebot is slightly different from the user version. For example, you can show users […]
This article is based on the third and final part of the JetOctopus AI webinar series. You can see part one here and part two here. SEO evolved. Search changed. The question is whether AI will choose you as the source of the answer. In the third and final part of the JetOctopus AI webinar […]
This article is based on the second part of the JetOctopus AI webinar series. You can read part one here. AI visibility is no longer about rankings. It is increasingly about probability – the likelihood that an AI system will select, reference or paraphrase your content when responding to a user query. For SEO specialists […]
Why do you need a site migration checklist Site migration is one of the highest-risk SEO operations. A single mistake during migration can: If you’ve never done a site migration before, this checklist exists to answer one simple question:What exactly do I need to do to migrate a site without losing traffic? This is not […]
A domain migration gone wrong. Thousands of pages flagged with 404 errors overnight. All indexed articles suddenly returning are linked through a 301 redirection. This is the everyday reality of managing SEO redirects across complex, fast-moving websites. Whether you’re handling a platform migration, restructuring URLs after a rebrand or consolidating domains following the m&a, if […]
AI bots now account for roughly 50% of Google bot activity and 75% of that traffic comes from user searches, not just training crawls, according to Stan Dashevskyi, Head of SEO and Customer Success at JetOctopus. If your site isn’t optimized for AI visibility, you’re already losing ground, he said. Speaking at a recent JetOctopus […]
How Search Works in 2026 Search has fundamentally changed. In 2025, visibility is no longer determined only by Google. Websites are now discovered, evaluated, and surfaced by: Modern SEO requires understanding how all these systems access your site and ensuring that your content is discoverable for both search engines and AI models.Logs have become the […]
Chaos may be a ladder to growth, but it’s not something you’d want on your website. A poorly organized website (one without a proper website structure) won’t just form a bad first impression on visitors, but also lead to a higher bounce rate and ultimately, kill conversions. And if you think that’s just a UX […]
2025 has been an intense and highly productive year for JetOctopus.Search is evolving beyond traditional rankings – AI systems now play a central role in how content is discovered and evaluated. This year, we focused on helping SEO teams understand how their websites are actually crawled, interpreted, and surfaced by both search engines and AI […]
What types of Googlebot exist? Just a couple of years ago, Python was a hot topic: “Python for technical SEO”, “Python for log file analysis”, “Making friends with Python”. But suddenly, in late 2022, everything changed with the introduction of ChatGPT-3. Instead of spending a long evening writing code to process a CSV file, now […]
17 November, JetOctopus and OMcollective gathered the SEO community in Ghent to answer one question:How is AI reshaping search and what must SEOs do to stay visible in 2025 and beyond?Across multiple expert sessions, one insight became clear:Search is no longer Google-only and AI has fundamentally changed how content is discovered. Below are the 7 […]
Most SEO audits stop at what crawlers and analytics platforms report. Log files go further: they record what search engines actually did on your server, with no sampling, no estimation and no third-party interpretation. This checklist is built for SEOs who need that level of precision: practitioners managing large or complex sites where crawl budget […]
1. What types of Googlebot exist? Google has several crawlers and fetchers. They are built for different services and purposes. For us, SEOs, the main interest is in two: Googlebot Smartphone and Googlebot Desktop. Years ago, switching to mobile-first indexing was a hot topic, as it changed the crawl ratio between the two bots. However, […]
You attended Serge Bezborodov’s talk at brightonSEO San Diego.His session “AI Bots: What They Crawl and Why” is now available for download. Discover how AI-powered crawlers evaluate your site – and what SEOs must change to stay visible in the new AI-driven search era. How AI bots decide what to crawl and display Essential SEO […]
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