· 28 min read
Google Core Update Recovery: How We Won Back 'SEO Audit' #3 Ranking
Our audit page fell from the top four to page two for "seo audit" after the March 2026 core update, then came back. Read our 6-step Google core update recovery.
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Emre Elbeyoglu
Founder & CEO
Emre Elbeyoglu is founder and CEO of SEOmator. Alongside running the company, Emre is its Head of Growth and leads all of SEOmator's growth work. Emre is also the founder and director of Next Marketing Technology Ltd, the London company that has owned and operated SEOmator since 2023. Emre has worked in B2B SaaS SEO and growth marketing for more than 16 years and builds every acquisition channel on search: that approach has generated $10M+ in total revenue from organic search across Emre's products, driven 300K+ monthly organic visitors and earned 10K+ referring backlinks.
In 2013 Emre co-founded Flatart, a digital marketing agency that ran SEO and growth programs for brands including Investing.com, Rakuten and EuroDNS. That consulting work turned into products: Popupsmart, an AI-powered conversion rate optimization platform used by 600+ clients, and LiveChatAI, an AI customer support tool covered by WIRED. Emre also publishes growth marketing experiments at GrowthMarketing.ai.
Articles by Emre Elbeyoglu
· 17 min read
Google Search Console MCP: Free GSC MCP for Claude & Codex
Connect Google Search Console to Claude or Codex in two minutes with SEOmator's free GSC MCP: one command, a browser sign-in, no Google Cloud project.
· 14 min read
What Is ClaudeBot? Anthropic's 3 Crawlers, and Which One You Can Safely Block (2026 Data)
ClaudeBot is Anthropic's AI training crawler, one of three. In our check of 10,000 top sites, 64% of those that block it still let Claude-SearchBot in.
· 17 min read
SEOmator Open-Source SEO Audit CLI and Claude Code Skill
Our free, MIT-licensed SEO audit CLI checks a site against 365 rules in 20 categories. Its Claude Code skill lets an AI agent run the audit and fix it.
· 35 min read
6 Best AI SEO Courses in 2026: I Completed Every One
I completed six AI SEO courses in the past year. Here's the order I'd take them in, who each one suits, and what they cost, from free to $319 a month.
· 20 min read
Monthly AI Crawler Report: September 2026 — Search Bots Climb, GPTBot Halves
Search-purpose crawling reached 10.6% of AI-bot requests in September 2026, four times January's share, as GPTBot halved to 6.2% and PerplexityBot grew sixfold since July. Our monthly AI crawler report.
· 21 min read
GEO Data Report, October 2026: Which AI Crawlers & LLM Bots Take the Most and Give the Least?
Perplexity now crawls 4,056 pages for every referral it sends back, up from 112 in January. Anthropic fell to 482:1, below OpenAI for the first time, as ChatGPT's links stopped passing a referrer. Cloudflare Radar's crawl-to-refer ratios, month by month to October 2026.
· 18 min read
AI Bot Traffic by Country: Who Crawls, Who Gets Blocked (October 2026)
In October 2026, 17% of AI-bot requests got a 403, up from 10% in July. GPTBot's block rate tripled while Googlebot's held at 3.7%. 15 markets inside.
· 22 min read
SaaS Technical SEO: 8-Step Audit (151 Pricing Pages Tested)
We tested 151 B2B SaaS pricing pages from Google's page 1. Rendering and canonicals are mostly fine; only 32.5% mark up prices. The 8-step audit.
· 6 min read
Local SEO vs Global SEO (and How to Rank in Another Country)
Local SEO wins one area; global SEO wins countries. How to choose, and how to rank in a specific country: URL structure, hreflang, and what Google ignores.
· 17 min read
Blogging Statistics 2026: 47 Eye-Opening Stats That Prove Content Still Drives Business Growth
47 blogging statistics for 2026, each traced to its original source, plus our own data: 76.6% of visits to our blog start on posts over a year old.
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