Author
Lewis Jones
founder at Crawl Cove. Built the crawler, runs the company, and is accountable for everything published here.
Background
Crawl Cove started as the tool Lewis wanted while auditing sites. Crawlers were good at listing problems and no help at all with deciding which ones mattered or what to do about them, so every finding in Crawl Cove arrives with a plain-English explanation, the fix, and the evidence behind it one click away.
The first public version shipped on 22 June 2026, and Crawl Cove Ltd was incorporated in England and Wales on 16 August 2026 once the product was real. Both dates are checkable: the first against this site's changelog, the second against the public register.
Everything published here goes out under this name. Screenshots come from real Crawl Cove audits, competitor prices are checked against the vendor's own pricing page and dated, and corrections are made in the open. If something on this site is wrong, saying so reaches the person who can change both the article and the app.
Articles by Lewis Jones
- Monthly SEO Report Template: A Worked Example
- How to Use an SEO Audit to Win Clients
- SEO Client Onboarding Checklist for Agencies
- WordPress SEO Audit: A Step-by-Step Checklist
- 9 SEO Chrome Extensions Compared for 2026
- Soft 404 in Search Console: Fix It or Leave It?
- How Many UK Websites Block AI Crawlers?
- Alternate Page With Proper Canonical Tag
- Blocked by Robots.txt in Search Console
- Blocked Due to Access Forbidden (403) and 401
- Google Chose Different Canonical Than User
- Excluded by Noindex Tag: What It Means
- Indexed, Though Blocked by Robots.txt
- Not Found (404) in Search Console: Fix or Leave?
- Page Indexed Without Content: What It Means
- Page with Redirect: Fix It or Leave It?
- Redirect Error in Search Console: How to Fix
- Server Error (5xx) in Search Console: Fixes
- JavaScript SEO Audit: Raw vs Rendered HTML
- How Much to Charge for an SEO Audit
- How to Crawl a Staging Site Behind a Login
- SEO Crawler CLI: Audit a Site From the Terminal
- SEO Crawl Export Format: JSON Schema and CSV
- SEO GitHub Action: Fail the Build on Broken Links
- Canonical Tag Mistakes: Catching Template Bugs
- How to Write a Robots.txt File
- Image Alt Text Audit: How to Do It Properly
- SEO Audit Report Template: A Real Example
- On-Page SEO Guide: Titles, Headings & Intent
- Duplicate Without User-Selected Canonical
- Crawled - Currently Not Indexed: What It Means
- Site Migration SEO Checklist
- How to Validate Structured Data Site-Wide
- Search Console Indexing Issues Explained
- How to Track SEO Issues Per Client Over Time
- Discovered - Currently Not Indexed: What It Means
- How to Compare Two SEO Crawls
- Hreflang Errors: How to Find and Fix Them
- 12 Screaming Frog Alternatives Compared (2026)
- Screaming Frog 500 URL Limit: Any Workaround?
- How to Find Orphan Pages: Crawler and GSC
- How to Present an SEO Audit to a Client
- 7 Free Screaming Frog Alternatives, No URL Cap
- AI Crawlers in robots.txt: Who to Allow and Block
- What Is llms.txt? A Practical Guide for Site Owners
- How to Fix Duplicate Title Tags & Descriptions
- Interaction to Next Paint (INP) Explained
- Internal Linking for SEO: A Practical Guide
- Largest Contentful Paint (LCP): How to Fix
- Search Intent: Matching Content to the Query
- Core Web Vitals Explained: LCP, INP and CLS
- Crawl Budget Explained: What It Is, Why It Matters
- Cumulative Layout Shift (CLS): Causes and Fixes
- Technical SEO Audit Checklist: What to Check First
- SEO-Friendly URLs: How to Structure Them
- Technical SEO Guide: Crawl, Index, Speed
- Title Tags & Meta Descriptions That Get Clicks
- Heading Tags for SEO: H1 to H6 Done Right
- How to Win Featured Snippets and Rich Results
- Redirect Chains and Loops: Find and Fix Them
- How to Find and Fix Broken Links Across Your Site
- Why GA4 and Google Ads Clicks Don't Match
- Are GA4 Key Events Retroactive?
- How Long Does Google Take to Recrawl a Page?
- Search Console Data Delay: How Long Is It?
- Search Console Impressions Dropped: Why?
- What Are Search Console Anonymised Queries?
How this writing is checked
Every article on this site follows the same published standard for sources, corrections and disclosure. Our editorial policy sets out how each piece is researched and what happens when we get something wrong. If you have found an error, say so through contact and it gets fixed with a dated note.