Krawly Editorial Team
In-house engineers, writers & reviewers
10+ years of experience
About
The Krawly Editorial Team is the in-house group responsible for building Krawly's tools and for fact-checking, copy-editing, and reviewing every guide, tool description, and blog post on the site. The team's engineering background spans Python, Django, distributed systems, and Playwright/Puppeteer-based headless crawlers — most Krawly tools started as internal scripts written for real client work in SEO auditing and data extraction. Each published piece is read by at least one reviewer with hands-on experience in the topic before it goes live. We update articles when underlying tools change behaviour, when search engine guidance shifts, or when readers point out factual errors via info@krawly.io.
Areas of expertise
Recent posts by Krawly Editorial Team
How to Scrape YouTube Playlist Data in 2026 (Free & Easy)
Learn how to extract video titles, descriptions, and metadata from any YouTube playlist in seconds — no coding required.
Read articleHow to Find Email Addresses from Any Website (5 Free Methods)
Discover 5 proven methods to find contact emails from any website — for sales outreach, PR, and business development.
Read articleFree SEO Audit Checklist for 2026 (With Tools)
Complete SEO audit checklist with free tools for every check — meta tags, speed, security, structured data, and more.
Read articleTop 10 Best Free Website Analysis Tools in 2026
Discover the best free tools to analyze any website — technology stack, SEO, speed, security, and more. No signup needed.
Read articleYouTube SEO: How to Extract Tags, Subtitles & Comments from Any Video
Learn how to extract YouTube tags, subtitles, and comments for SEO research and content strategy — all free tools included.
Read articleKrawly vs SmallSEOTools — Which is Better in 2026?
An honest, feature-by-feature comparison of Krawly.io and SmallSEOTools. See which free SEO tool suite fits your needs.
Read articleTop 10 Free SEO Tools for Small Businesses in 2026
The best free SEO tools that small businesses can use today — from site audits to keyword analysis, backlink checking, and more.
Read articleWhat is Web Scraping? A Beginner's Guide (2026)
Learn what web scraping is, how it works, common use cases, and how to scrape websites without coding using free tools.
Read articleHow to Improve Your Website's SEO in 30 Minutes
A practical, step-by-step guide to quickly audit and improve your website's SEO using free tools. No technical expertise needed.
Read articleBest YouTube Scraping Tools — Free & No-Code (2026)
Compare the best free YouTube scraping tools for extracting playlist data, comments, tags, thumbnails, and subtitles without coding.
Read articleWhat I Learned Auditing 100 Small-Business Sites for Free SEO Wins
A 100-site audit found five recurring small-business SEO problems. See the data, screenshots, and low-cost fixes that produced measurable improvements.
Read articleIs It Legal to Scrape a Website in 2026? A Practical Guide
What U.S., EU, and UK courts have actually ruled on web scraping in the past two years — and the four-question checklist I run before any scraping job.
Read articleFree vs Paid SEO Tools: An Honest Comparison from Someone Who Built Both
Compare free and paid SEO tools by job: technical crawls, keyword research, backlinks, reporting, and the cases where free tools do not compete.
Read articleI Tested Every Free SEO Crawler I Could Find — Here's What Each One Actually Does
Twelve free SEO crawlers tested on the same 50-page site with five identical checks. See the results, screenshots, limits, and recommendations.
Read articleI Audited 50 E-Commerce Sites for Schema.org Product Markup — Most Are Wrong
A 50-store product schema audit reveals missing fields, misleading values, and eight repeated mistakes, with practical markup fixes.
Read articleHeadless Browser Detection in 2026 — What Actually Works and What Doesn't
Learn which headless-browser fingerprints still matter in 2026, which signals became noise, and how modern bot detection combines them.
Read articleWhy Most Free Email Finders Are Useless — And the Three That Actually Work
Fourteen free email finders were tested on 100 domains. See which results were guesses or duplicates and which methods produced usable contacts.
Read articleReading robots.txt Like a Real Crawler — Four Traps I Keep Seeing
Four common robots.txt mistakes can waste crawl budget or hide pages. Learn how crawlers interpret the file with real examples and practical fixes.
Read articleCore Web Vitals at 2.5 Years — What Changed, What Didn't, and What I Stopped Worrying About
See what Core Web Vitals data says about rankings, which metrics matter, which signals were noise, and the 2026 changes site owners should track.
Read articleOpen Graph Debugging — A 12-Step Checklist When the Social Preview Is Wrong
Fix wrong titles, missing images, and broken Open Graph previews on X, LinkedIn, Slack, and WhatsApp with this 12-step debugging checklist.
Read articleThe Hidden Cost of Free CDNs — What I Found Auditing 100 Cloudflare Sites
A 100-site Cloudflare audit found three recurring performance and configuration problems. Learn how to spot them and apply mostly free fixes.
Read articleWhy I Stopped Trusting SEO Tool Scores — And What I Look at Instead
SEO scores are often vendor-specific and easy to game. Learn which audit signals reflect real technical problems and which numbers to treat cautiously.
Read articleWhat One Domain Can Tell You — A DNS Investigation Walkthrough
Learn how DNS records reveal a site's host, email provider, nameservers, migration clues, and third-party services using only a domain name.
Read articleAuditing a WordPress Site with 8 Free Tools — Real Issues You Can Fix in an Afternoon
Audit WordPress with eight free tools that uncover recurring SEO, security, speed, metadata, link, and technology problems, plus the patterns to check.
Read articleScraping JavaScript-Rendered Sites Without Residential Proxies — What Actually Works in 2026
Residential proxies cost $5-15 per GB. For most legitimate scraping jobs you can avoid them entirely with the right stack. Here's what works and what doesn't.
Read articleLifting Your Security Headers Grade from D to A — A 30-Minute Checklist
Improve a weak security-headers grade by configuring six key headers. See what each header does, safe starting values, and how to verify the result.
Read articleGoogle's Helpful Content Update 2026 — What Actually Changed for Small Sites
Analysis of 20 sites before and after the 2025–2026 Helpful Content updates, including the patterns that changed and the advice that did not hold up.
Read articleBuilding a Personal SEO Dashboard with Free Tools — My Actual Weekly Workflow
No spreadsheets, no $400 SaaS subscription, no GA4 dashboards. The exact 30-minute Monday-morning workflow I use to keep one site healthy with seven free tools.
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