Technical SEO Engineer
Piyush Rathod
AI web futurist at 24Squad. Builds the WebGrow24, WebHost24, and FinTax24 surfaces — ships the parsers and tools that run in your browser, and obsesses over Core Web Vitals.
Writing by Piyush Rathod(11)
Blog · SERP
Featured Snippets in 2026: The Position Zero Playbook
A featured snippet can lift CTR by 8% without lifting rank. Here is the format match rule, the placement rule, and the audit we use to win position zero.
Sep 5, 2026 · 14 min read
Blog · Off-Page
Parasite SEO Explained: Why It Works and Why It Burns
Parasite SEO ranks fast on high-authority domains, but the traffic is rented. The mechanics, the failure modes, and the owned-domain play that compounds.
Feb 2, 2026 · 9 min read
Blog · Technical
hreflang 101: The Hreflang Tag Without Tears
hreflang is the most mis-implemented tag in international SEO. Learn the three rules, the mistakes that silently break it, and a validation loop that holds.
Jan 30, 2026 · 11 min read
Blog · Content
AI Content Detectors in 2026: A Reality Check
AI content detectors promise certainty and deliver coin flips. Here is how they work, why they fail, the one signal they cannot fake, and what Google scores.
Jan 28, 2026 · 10 min read
Blog · Ecommerce
The Ecommerce SEO Checklist (2026 Edition)
This 2026 ecommerce SEO checklist covers faceted navigation, product schema, reviews, images, and the conversion-side SEO most online stores quietly miss.
Jan 19, 2026 · 9 min read
Blog · Technical
Duplicate Content Penalty: What Google Actually Does
There is no duplicate content penalty in Google — there is a filter that picks one version to rank and ignores the rest. Here is how it decides who wins.
Jan 15, 2026 · 10 min read
Blog · Off-Page
Negative SEO: How to Spot It and Shut It Down
Negative SEO is rare but real. Spot toxic backlinks, scraped content, fake GMB listings, and click fraud early — then shut each attack down before it sticks.
Jan 13, 2026 · 10 min read
Blog · Technical
Log File Analysis for SEO: The Non-Engineer's Playbook
Log file analysis shows what Googlebot really crawls and what it wastes your crawl budget on. Here is the 14-day, no-engineer workflow to act on it fast.
Jan 12, 2026 · 10 min read
Guide · Performance
Core Web Vitals: CWV That Actually Move Rankings
LCP, INP, and CLS explained — what each metric measures, what it ignores, the field thresholds Google rewards, and the fixes that move real-world numbers.
17 min · Advanced
Guide · On-Page
On-Page SEO: The Complete Audit Checklist
The page-level audit workflow agencies actually run — title tags, headings, internal links, and schema, sequenced to surface the issues that matter fastest.
18 min · Intermediate
Guide · Technical
Technical SEO: A Crawl-First Audit
Crawl budget, indexing, canonicals, hreflang, and JS rendering — the foundation everything else sits on, checked bottom-up to catch silent failures early.
22 min · Advanced