ScrubberDuck working with crawler research data

Collaborate With Scrubnet

Build practical tools, publish useful guides and investigate technical questions together

What collaboration means

Scrubnet works with technical SEO specialists, web developers, agencies, researchers and crawler operators on projects that improve how practitioners work. Collaborations can shape practical tools, turn specialist knowledge into useful guides, or investigate narrowly defined questions with transparent evidence.

Where a project involves search and AI crawler behaviour, Scrubnet’s public feeds and verified access logs provide a shared observational dataset; collaborators add site context, descriptive analysis and peer challenge.

Good collaboration topics

  • Testing and refining practical tools around real technical SEO and web development workflows.
  • Co-authoring clear technical guides, implementation notes or repeatable working methods.
  • Comparing crawler discovery and revisit patterns across feed formats.
  • Describing how requests coincide with timestamps, status codes or content changes.
  • Building multi-site technical SEO or GEO case studies.
  • Reviewing crawler verification, access controls and observability methods.
  • Turning repeatable findings into open guidance or ideas for practical tools.

How a project works

  1. Define the outcome: agree the workflow problem, guide or narrow research question the project should address.
  2. Select the inputs: identify relevant expertise, workflows, participating sites or evidence.
  3. Build or observe: develop the practical output, or configure feeds and monitor crawler requests over an agreed period.
  4. Review carefully: test the work and keep any access-log observations separate from indexing, ranking and visibility outcomes.
  5. Share what is useful: document the method, limitations and result as a tool, guide or case study.

Roles

Scrubnet provides

  • Technical implementation and workflow design support
  • Editorial structure for useful, open guidance
  • Custom feed infrastructure and ScrubberDuck collection logic where relevant
  • Live access logs and crawler verification signals for Observatory research

Collaborators provide

  • A clear practitioner problem, guide idea or research question
  • Relevant workflow, development, SEO or crawler expertise
  • Participating sites or supporting evidence where needed
  • Testing, review and interpretation
  • Transparent limitations and publishable learnings

What this is not

This is not paid distribution, a reseller programme or a promise of rankings, indexing, AI citations or traffic. Scrubnet is an independent toolkit, knowledge hub and research environment. Any visibility claim requires evidence beyond a crawler request.

Propose a collaboration

Email contact@scrubnet.org with the workflow problem, tool or guide idea, or research question you want to explore, plus any expertise, sites or evidence you can contribute.