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Reviews of Ahrefs, Semrush, RankMath, Yoast and the rest, written by someone who has run SEO campaigns since 2017.

32 Articles

23Oct

#SEO & Marketing Tools

SendFox Review: The $29 Lifetime Deal Now Means 300,000 Sends, Not Unlimited

Ashikur Rahman

Founder in a loft co-working space, hand on his chin, weighing a laptop showing a .si domain search with available names, beside a small Slovenian flag

02Oct

#SEO & Marketing Tools

What Is a .si Domain, and Should You Buy One for an AI Brand?

Ashikur Rahman

29Sep

#SEO & Marketing Tools

Google Spam Update September 2026: Was Your Site Hit, and What Should You Do?

Ashikur Rahman

Site owner frowning at a laptop while Google shows no results for a site built with an AI builder such as Lovable or Bolt, next to a falling impressions chart

26Sep

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Is Lovable Good for SEO? Why Your Site Is Not Ranking and How to Fix It

Ashikur Rahman

A man with glasses weighs an AppSumo lifetime deals page listing NeuronWriter, ZeroRank AI, Nuwtonic SEO and AahSheet against a Semrush dashboard with a price tag reading $1,407.96 per year, with a notebook checklist for keyword research, backlinks, site audit and rank tracking

25Sep

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AppSumo SEO Tools: Which Lifetime Deals Replace a Semrush Seat, and Which Are Toys

Ashikur Rahman

20Sep

#SEO & Marketing Tools

Google Reviews Not Showing Up? The Six Reasons Google Actually Gives

Ashikur Rahman

Laptop showing a Google Analytics 4 Traffic acquisition report with the AI Assistant channel row highlighted, while chips for ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude and Perplexity send arrows into the screen

20Sep

#SEO & Marketing Tools

How to Track AI Traffic in GA4 Now That Google Added an AI Assistant Channel

Ashikur Rahman

Four small robot crawlers labelled ChatGPT, Google, Claude and Bing approaching a web page, a robots.txt panel with Disallow rules and a red block shield, while a person at a laptop weighs allow against block

20Sep

#SEO & Marketing Tools

Should You Block AI Crawlers? Read the Bot List Before You Decide

Ashikur Rahman

Laptop on a desk showing a pricing page with four plan cards labelled SEO, Starter, Pro+ and Advanced, a Semrush One banner spanning the three bundled tiers, beside a notebook checklist about comparing plans

20Sep

#SEO & Marketing Tools

What Semrush One Costs, and Whether the $60 AI Layer Is Worth It

Ashikur Rahman

Laptop showing a Lovable project SEO panel next to a checklist of page titles, meta descriptions, Open Graph tags, indexing settings, sitemap and canonical URLs

20Sep

#SEO & Marketing Tools

Lovable SEO Settings: The Checklist Behind a Site That Actually Indexes

Ashikur Rahman

20Sep

#SEO & Marketing Tools

Google Review Policy Violations: All 20 Categories, and Which Ones You Can Win

Ashikur Rahman

20Sep

#SEO & Marketing Tools

Google Business Profile Video Verification: What Google Actually Requires

Ashikur Rahman

Two browser windows showing the same page at two URLs with a duplicate content badge, beside a laptop with the Google Search Console Page indexing report reading Duplicate without user-selected canonical

20Sep

#SEO & Marketing Tools

Duplicate Without User-Selected Canonical: Find the Twin Google Chose

Ashikur Rahman

Laptop showing the Google Search Console Pages report with the Crawled, currently not indexed reason highlighted above Discovered, Duplicate and redirect rows, and an arrow pointing to an Indexed badge

20Sep

#SEO & Marketing Tools

Crawled, Currently Not Indexed: What Google Saw and Why It Said No

Ashikur Rahman

18Sep

#SEO & Marketing Tools

How Much Does It Cost to Remove a Google Review?

Ashikur Rahman

18Sep

#SEO & Marketing Tools

How Do You Actually Get a Negative Google Review Removed?

Ashikur Rahman

17Sep

#SEO & Marketing Tools

Service-Area Businesses and Google Verification: The Rules That Get Profiles Suspended

Ashikur Rahman

Google Search Console Pages report on a laptop with a magnifying glass over the Discovered, currently not indexed status

17Sep

#SEO & Marketing Tools

Discovered, Currently Not Indexed: What Google Is Actually Telling You

Ashikur Rahman

Laptop showing an AI generated answer beside Google search results, surrounded by ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, Perplexity and Copilot icons representing answer engine optimization

17Sep

#SEO & Marketing Tools

What AI Visibility Tools Actually Cost (and Which Ones Will Not Tell You)

Ashikur Rahman

17Sep

#SEO & Marketing Tools

Google Business Profile Suspended: What Google Actually Says

Ashikur Rahman

Editorial illustration for updating old blog posts versus writing new ones: on the left a tall stack of aged papers with four glowing coral sheets slotted into the middle, a blue refresh icon resting on top and a coral arrow curving upward from the stack; on the right a single small blank document beside a pencil edit icon. A bearded man in a navy suit sits between them. The refreshed stack dominates the frame while the new blank page stays small and static.

15Aug

#SEO & Marketing Tools

Is It Better to Update Old Blog Posts or Write New Ones?

Ashikur Rahman

Google Search Console's Generative AI Report: What 33,600 Impressions Actually Show

14Aug

#SEO & Marketing Tools

Google Search Console's Generative AI Report: What 33,600 Impressions Actually Show

Ashikur Rahman

Local business owner outside his storefront holding a phone with glowing Google Maps location pins and review listings floating above it

10Jul

#SEO & Marketing Tools

How Do You Get Your Business to Show Up on Google Maps?

Ashikur Rahman

Business owner viewing a ChatGPT analytics dashboard showing a Top 3 visibility ranking

10Jul

#SEO & Marketing Tools

How Do You Get Your Business Cited in ChatGPT?

Ashikur Rahman

SEO operator at a laptop publishing a stream of validated WordPress posts with Claude Code, shown as content cards with green checkmarks flowing through a pipeline into a WordPress site

12Jun

#SEO & Marketing Tools

How I Publish 50 SEO Posts in an Afternoon With Claude Code

Ashikur Rahman

Is Elementor Pro worth it: CriticNest 8.0/10 review of Elementor Pro covering the 2026 Editor Pro and One plan pricing, features, and honest caveats

11Jun

#SEO & Marketing Tools

Is Elementor Pro Worth It in 2026? An Honest Review of the New Two-Family Pricing

Ashikur Rahman

Google May 2026 core update explained by CriticNest: rollout dates, volatility data, how to tell a core update drop from AI Overviews click loss, and a recovery plan

10Jun

#SEO & Marketing Tools

Google May 2026 Core Update: What Changed and How to Recover If Your Traffic Dropped

Ashikur Rahman

16May

#SEO & Marketing Tools

How to Rank in AI Overviews: Google’s 2026 SEO Guide

Ashikur Rahman

Is Semrush overkill for a one person website? CriticNest compares the $139 a month Semrush SEO plan against Mangools at $18.85 a month and free Google Search Console.

29Apr

#SEO & Marketing Tools

Is Semrush Overkill for a One Person Website?

Ashikur Rahman

Elementor Free vs Pro for WooCommerce - feature comparison showing why Pro is essential

27Mar

#SEO & Marketing Tools

Do I Need Elementor Pro for WooCommerce?

Ashikur Rahman

Yoast SEO traffic light icon with stopwatch and speed gauge showing fast performance on WordPress

03Mar

#SEO & Marketing Tools

Does Yoast Slow Down Your WordPress Site? Tested With Real Numbers

Ashikur Rahman

Google February 2026 Discover core update - algorithm changes affecting publisher visibility

26Feb

#SEO & Marketing Tools

Google February 2026 Discover Core Update: What Actually Changed and What to Do

Ashikur Rahman

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