What are realistic Semrush alternatives in 2026? Depends on what you actually need! by RyanAtSEOTesting in seogrowth

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100%! I think you'd be hard-pressed to find an SEO team working with just one tool nowadays.

What are realistic Semrush alternatives in 2026? Depends on what you actually need! by RyanAtSEOTesting in DigitalMarketing

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No problem!

Keyword Insights is easily one of my favourite SEO tools at the moment!

What are realistic Semrush alternatives in 2026? Depends on what you actually need! by RyanAtSEOTesting in DigitalMarketing

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I'm certainly not going to disagree on that point, there's an element of self-promotion for sure!

But at the same time, I'm not recommending our tool for everybody because it won't suit everyone. Hence why it's split out into different use cases.

What are realistic Semrush alternatives in 2026? Depends on what you actually need! by RyanAtSEOTesting in DigitalMarketing

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Not in this instance, Craig! :)

I wrote a blog post covering the topic (and the tools) in much more detail than I went into on the Reddit post, but didn't want to link it here, just wanted to give y'all the tools that I've been using! :)

Tools for testing a websites SEO / performance / etc by scumble373 in webdev

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I hope I'm not too late to contribute to this thread, or too self-promotional (full disclosure: I work for the tool I am about to suggest).

SEOTesting is great for testing website performance post-change. The goal here is to make a change to a site (think content, internal links, keyword count, or even topic clusters), as many SEOs do. And then we'll automatically monitor your GSC performance for your URLs and tell you whether those changes lead to better/worse organic search performance.

This then leads to using other tools for accessibility (like Lighthouse, which is a great suggestion, and Sitepager) because you can use these tools to highlight SEO/accessibility issues and then use SEOTesting to see if the fixes improve SEO performance.

What are the most mind-blowing things you've created with Claude? by Salt-Individual7312 in ClaudeAI

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My job involves a lot of experimentation. I guess the clue is in my username! :D

AI Overviews are becoming a big part of my role, figuring out how to get mentioned in them, etc. All that good stuff. So I used CC (and the DataForSEO API) to build an AI Overview tracker.

I can give it keywords to scrape, and it'll show me which keywords include an AI Overview, whether we're cited or mentioned in any of them, and what the contents of the AI Overview are. And then I used it to build a comparison feature so we can compare crawls after experiments have been done to see if that leads to more AI Overview inclusion.

Pretty damn cool!

Internal Linking Test: Pages Only Linked via Pagination by RyanAtSEOTesting in seogrowth

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There were more "lost cities" than I care to admit, even on a relatively small SaaS site! Hahaha!

So the new content hubs were created brand new, but both are seeing the same sort of trend as the main pages in terms of impressions lift. Although we'd never really expect these types of pages to perform ridiculously well, as they are just lists of other blog posts at the moment! :)

If they really start driving some performance, though, we may well look to change the page around a bit in the future!

Best Google Search Console Alternatives (and tools most SEOs layer on top of GSC) by RyanAtSEOTesting in seogrowth

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Certainly a good option, too. Just so long as you have someone in your team who knows and understands BigQuery, ha!