August Vonk

Useful stuff I actually use

A home for tools, resources and opinions that do not need another 2,000-word SEO article written around them.

Podcasts

  • Search Off the RecordGoogle Search Relationsunreviewed

    Mueller, Splitt, Illyes and Sassman, largely unedited.

  • Crawling MondaysAleyda Solisunreviewed

    Technical and international SEO, worked through in public.

  • Search with CandourMark Williams-Cookunreviewed

    Weekly technical SEO and AI search.

  • Casual Catch-ups over SEO, CRO en Data & AnalyticsRoy Huiskesunreviewed

    In Dutch. Conversations with SEO, CRO and analytics specialists.

  • SEO & Organic MarketingChantal Sminkunreviewed

    In Dutch. Search optimisation from the ground up.

  • Goed Gevondenunreviewed

    In Dutch. Being found in Google, for business owners.

  • SEO.be podcastMathias Noyezunreviewed

    In Dutch, from Belgium. Conversations with SEO specialists.

Newsletters

  • SEOFOMOAleyda Solisunreviewed

    The week in search, filtered.

  • Growth MemoKevin Indigunreviewed

    Search strategy with the reasoning shown.

  • SparkToroRand Fishkinunreviewed

    Audience research and zero-click search.

  • Search Engine Landunreviewed

    The daily record of what changed.

Books

  • Obviously AwesomeApril Dunfordunreviewed

    Positioning, which is upstream of every keyword decision.

  • The Mom TestRob Fitzpatrickunreviewed

    How to ask questions that survive contact with a real answer.

  • InspiredMarty Caganunreviewed

    Product discovery and delivery.

  • Don't Make Me ThinkSteve Krugunreviewed

    Still the shortest route to a usable page.

Current stack

  • Peec AI

    AI search analytics: where a brand shows up across LLM answers.

  • Profound

    AI search visibility and citation tracking. Mind the domain: profound.com is a different company.

  • Screaming Frog SEO Spider

    Crawling and log analysis.

  • Ahrefs

    Backlinks, keywords and Brand Radar for AI mentions.

  • Mangools

    Rank tracking and the AI Search Watcher.

  • Google Search Console

    The only first-party record of what search actually did.

  • Next.js

    This site runs on it.

  • Tailwind CSS

    Design tokens straight into utilities.

  • Claude Code

    Pair programming and audit tooling.