Guides
Short guides from the work we do on Basalt Studio’s own sites. Each one is dated and shows its sources, commands and real output.
What an SEO audit costs for a small SaaS in 2026
The price bands for marketplaces, freelancers, productized audits and agencies, what each buys, what to ask and the red flags. Every figure linked and dated.
Updated 20 Oct 2026
Can AI crawlers read your site? A 5-minute check
Three terminal commands for macOS and Linux: fetch as each crawler, read robots.txt, and count the words that arrive without JavaScript.
Updated 20 Oct 2026
llms.txt for a software product: what we put in ours
What the file is, what Basalt put in its own, with excerpts from the live files, and why it is a cheap test rather than a ranking factor.
Updated 20 Oct 2026