Guides, Tutorials & Insights
Learn about residential proxies, web scraping, data collection strategies, and industry best practices from the Shifter team.
Residential Proxies for Job-Board Data and Labour-Market Intelligence
Labour-market data is a time series, and coverage gaps look exactly like trends. How to run a stable job-board panel with residential proxies and verify it.
Matt Brown · September 4, 2026 How to Use Residential Proxies for Walmart Price and Inventory Monitoring
Walmart prices and stock are store-scoped, so national collection reports the wrong numbers. How to pin a session to a store and monitor price and inventory.
Chris Collins · September 4, 2026 Why AI Agents Need Real-Time SERP APIs to Access Search Data
A model's knowledge has an edge. An agent that cannot see past it will answer confidently anyway, which is the failure mode search access is meant to prevent.
Matt Brown · September 3, 2026 Geo-Targeted SERP APIs: The Secret Behind Accurate Local SEO Tracking
Local results change street by street, and most tracking gets them wrong the same way. Here is what geo-targeting granularity means and how to verify it.
Chris Collins · September 3, 2026 How SEO Platforms Use SERP APIs for Rank Tracking and Keyword Monitoring
If your product runs on search data, collection is a cost centre rather than a moat. Here is what SEO platforms buy, what they build, and where economics bite.
James Meadow · September 3, 2026 Residential Proxy Setup Checklist for Your First Project
Twelve checks, in order, from first request to a job you can leave running. Work down the list and you will avoid the mistakes that cost first-timers a month.
Matt Brown · September 2, 2026 Residential Proxy Load Testing: How to Stress-Test Before Production
Load testing proxies means finding your own ceiling without attacking someone else's site. Here is what to measure, against what, and how to read the results.
Chris Collins · September 2, 2026 Trademark Abuse Detection Without Getting Blocked
Trademark abuse hides in ads and listings that never surface from one location. Detection is the easy half; staying able to collect is the hard one.
James Meadow · September 2, 2026 Monitoring Unauthorized Sellers and MAP Violations at Scale
Both problems come from one dataset: who sells your products, where, and at what price. Here is how to collect it and act on it without drowning in noise.
James Meadow · September 2, 2026