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Every article on the cloro blog, filed by topic.

AI Search

How ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, Copilot, and Google AI Mode build answers, and how to measure what they say.

54 articles

Comparison

Head-to-head reviews of tools and providers, tested rather than summarized from marketing pages.

36 articles

Web Scraping

Extracting data from the open web and from AI interfaces: tooling, architecture, and the failure modes.

30 articles

Brand Monitoring

Watching what search engines and AI answers say about your brand, and what to do when it drifts.

27 articles

SEO

Classic search optimization: SERP features, on-page work, and the mechanics behind a ranking.

26 articles

SERP API

Getting structured search results out of an API: coverage, cost per call, latency, and reliability.

25 articles

Tutorial

Step-by-step builds with working code, from a first request to something running on a schedule.

24 articles

GEO

Generative engine optimization: earning citations in AI answers rather than blue-link rankings.

22 articles

Google

Google Search itself: operators, URL parameters, SERP features, and algorithm changes.

20 articles

Research

cloro's own data studies: measurements we ran, with the method and the sample stated.

16 articles

Rank Tracking

Measuring positions across Google, Bing, and AI answers, and the cost of doing it at scale.

13 articles

ChatGPT

OpenAI's assistant as a search surface: grounding, shopping, citations, and ads.

13 articles

News

News and media monitoring: feeds, APIs, and what to build when the official one does not exist.

11 articles

AI SEO

Running an SEO practice when the results page is written by a model: tooling, workflows, and what changes.

10 articles

Keyword Research

Finding the terms worth targeting, from SERP evidence rather than volume estimates alone.

7 articles

Advertising

Advertising inside search and AI answers, and how to observe it from the outside.

6 articles

OSINT

Open-source intelligence over the indexed web: exposure discovery, reconnaissance, and threat hunting.

5 articles

Compliance

The legal and regulatory side of collecting public data: scraping law, KYC, AML, and vendor risk.

5 articles

Fundamentals

The definitional pieces: what a SERP is, what GEO and AEO mean, and how the parts fit together.

5 articles

Proxies

Proxy types, anti-bot defences, and CAPTCHA handling for search and web data collection.

4 articles

Python

Python walkthroughs for search scraping, SERP data pipelines, and parsing.

4 articles

Local SEO

Rankings that change by city: geo-varying SERPs, local packs, and where AI gets its local picks.

4 articles

E-Commerce

Product, price, and review data, from marketplace scraping to AI shopping recommendations.

4 articles