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              "text": "SEO Scrubbox is a technical SEO analysis tool that inspects the currently active webpage selected by the user. It analyses URL status codes, redirects, indexability signals, internal linking, rendered content, structured data, sitemaps, and optional Chrome UX Report metrics."
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