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Data operations

Actor selection, APIs, datasets, validation, crawler access, SEO, GEO, and reliable production delivery.

7 focused guidesUpdated August 2026
Operations 01

Operations guide 07 · 7 min read

Google Trends Data as an API: Programmatic Keyword Research Without the Export Button

How to turn Google Trends into a repeatable data feed for SEO and market research: batching keyword comparisons, reading interest timelines, and mining rising queries at scale.

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Operations 02

Field note 02 · 8 min read

How AI Crawlers Read Websites: HTML, Robots, and Retrieval Access

A technical guide to the crawler roles, HTML requirements, robots controls, redirects, and CDN settings that determine whether AI search can retrieve a site.

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Operations 03

Field note 04 · 8 min read

How to Choose an Apify Actor for a Production Data Workflow

A source-first method for comparing Apify Actors by entity, geography, schema, freshness, pricing, limits, and a real sample run before scaling.

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Operations 04

Operations guide 05 · 11 min read

How to Run an Apify Actor by API in a Production Application

A production integration pattern for Actor input, asynchronous runs, status handling, datasets, secrets, retries, idempotency, and observable delivery.

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Operations 05

Operations guide 06 · 10 min read

How to Validate Scraped Data Quality Before It Reaches Production

A reusable quality gate for scraped datasets covering source evidence, completeness, validity, duplicates, freshness, drift, anomalies, and manual review.

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Operations 06

Field note 01 · 9 min read

SEO and GEO for Data API Pages: A 2026 Field Guide

A practical framework for making data API and Apify Actor pages crawlable, useful, quotable, and easy to select in both search engines and AI answers.

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Operations 07

Field note 03 · 10 min read

What Improves AI Citations? An Evidence-First Content Playbook

A measured guide to citation-ready writing: direct answers, sources, statistics, topical coverage, freshness, and the tactics that should not drive a content strategy.

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