Every day, hundreds of crawlers collect data from the websites of radio, TV, online, and print publishers. They perform monitoring, analysis, and summaries, providing the high-quality big data essential to AI.
Data for SEO , is a for-profit Organization, with desks in Estonia and Ukraine.
It was founded in 2016 by Nick Chernets: Founder and CEO, with this object:
“Powerful API Stack For Data-Driven Marketers : We provide comprehensive SEO and digital marketing data solutions via API. Our vision is to be a leader in data-driven marketing by leveraging data to equip businesses with the tools they need to create efficient and effective SEO strategies. Data is the new oil, and we are committed to providing the highest-quality fuel to power our clients’ SEO tools”
DataforSEO offers services linked to SEO , but not only. Once the contents are collected, there is a huge database ready to be monetized:
Data for AI training (The DataForSEO AI Optimization API equips you with access to keyword data enriched with search volume metrics)
“Our custom data collection services are designed to be the ultimate solution for all your AI initiatives. Whether you’re developing a new algorithm, refining an existing machine-learning model, or looking to expand your training dataset, we can deliver high-quality data at the scale your project requires to succeed”.
Content generation (DataForSEO Content Generation API is designed to facilitate the process of content creation. Its NLP model is capable of generating unique paragraphs of text, paraphrasing content, detecting grammar mistakes, and more.)
Content analysis : “Content Analysis API is a scalable solution for discovering citations of target keywords or brand names and analyzing relevant sentiments”.
DataForSEO : Costumers and prices:
- obey robots.txt : looks for robots.txt. Only one French publisher mentionned “dataforseo” disallowed this 9-11, 2025 (but DataforSeo scraps anyway). The UAs are: RSiteAuditor and DataForSeoBot/1.0
- Stats on Botscorner from 2022 (on french publishers/monthly)
DataforSEO stats show a huge activity on french websites plugged on Botscorner : more than +220.000 pages / 24h.
- DataforSEO has 29 employees, for a 3+M$ 2025 revenue