SEO question: how do tools like speedyindex.⁠com force Googlebot Mobile to crawl a URL without using Search Console? It doesn't seem to be backlinks or the Indexing API & my tests to capture referrers etc didn't find anything. I'll make a free and OSS tool if I figure it out!

SEO earns a high position in a list of links; GEO earns a citation inside an AI-generated answer. The surfaces differ — conversational queries, zero-click answers, different measurement — but the underlying requirement is nearly identical: readable text, clear structure, disambiguated entities, and stable URLs. One workflow satisfies both, and podcasts hold a rare advantage: starting from zero text means a single conversion (episode → structured page) covers SEO and GEO in one move, with no legacy to untangle. Measure SEO in Search Console; measure GEO by AI-badged referrals and the questions agents ask your catalog.

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Has anybody used my SEO skill/CLI for real work? Trying to decide how useful it is, whether it needs to be more simple, go deeper, if it has bugs, etc. I still use it a lot but am leaning to simple single-purpose tools for most of my work now.