SEO Log Analysis in 2026: My ELK Pipeline After OpenSearch 2.18 and What Broke
Published 19 May 2026 · Andrii · ~3,200 words
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BigQuery SEO in 2026: The 12 Patterns I Still Reuse After the Pricing Reset
Published 19 May 2026 · Andrii · ~3,100 words
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GA4 + BigQuery in 2026: The Schema Changes That Tanked My Dashboards
Published 19 May 2026. I maintain seven production Looker Studio dashboards connected to GA4 BigQuery exports. Five of them broke partially or completely in 2025 due to schema…
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Building an SEO Data Warehouse in 2026: My Stack After dbt 1.10 and Three Rebuilds
I've rebuilt this thing three times. First rebuild was in late Q3 2024 when our GA4 BigQuery export started producing session-scoped rows that didn't join cleanly to GSC click data.…
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n8n for SEO in 2026: The 9 Workflows That Survived the AI-Agent Rewrite
After rebuilding every n8n SEO workflow for AI-agent compatibility in early 2026, here are the 9 that actually survived and why 14 others got killed.
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My Python SEO Library in 2026: What I Killed When LLM APIs Got Cheap
A frank audit of my personal Python SEO toolkit after LLM APIs dropped to near-zero cost: what I retired, what I kept, and what I rebuilt from scratch.
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Streamlit SEO Dashboards in 2026: Why I Finally Migrated Off Looker Studio
After four years of Looker Studio for client SEO dashboards, I moved everything to Streamlit 1.40+ in Q1 2026. Here's what broke, what worked, and whether it was worth it.
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Airflow 3.x for SEO Pipelines: The Production DAGs I Rebuilt in Q1 2026
Airflow 3.x broke my entire SEO data pipeline in January 2026. Here's what I had to rebuild, what the new architecture looks like, and which DAGs are running in production now.
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Yandex SEO in 2026: What the Post-Leak Algorithm Actually Looks Like
Three years after the Yandex source-code leak, what do the ranking signals actually do in practice? Here's what I changed for CIS clients in 2025–2026 and what moved the needle.
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Baidu SEO in 2026: My China Client Just Got Indexed in Six Days
Six days from publish to ranking. Here's exactly what changed in our Baidu workflow in 2025–2026, why ICP licensing still matters more than most agencies admit, and two things I was…
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Naver SEO in 2026: SmartBlock Killed Half My VIEW Strategy
Naver's SmartBlock redesigned the SERP in ways nobody fully predicted. Here's what happened to my Korean clients' VIEW traffic in 2025, what the new SmartBlock structure requires,…
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Kagi in 2026: Why I'm Treating 187k Paying Users Like a Real Channel
In October 2025, my analytics showed 4,847 referral sessions from kagi.com in a single month. Not a single one came from a campaign I'd built for it. I hadn't optimized for it. I…
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