37 essays on SEO, GEO, brand, PR, and content. Long-form. Operator voice. No fluff. Updated biweekly.
Brand positioning is the 30-word claim that separates you from every competitor — and in 2026 it has a second job: it's the entity clarity that earns AI citations. Here's the brief, the archetypes, and the measurement model.
ANALYTICS Last-touch attribution misses 70% of the B2B buying journey. Here's the dark social problem, why AI search made it worse, and the hybrid measurement stack — self-reported attribution, brand lift, and GEO signals — that actually captures pipeline in 2026.
PLAYBOOK CRO is the highest-ROI marketing investment most teams underrun. Here's the audit framework, the five levers that actually move conversion rates, how to run experiments when your traffic is too low for classical A/B tests, and how AI personalization changes the equation in 2026.
SEM Performance Max is Google's black-box, all-inventory campaign type. It can crush — or quietly cannibalize your branded traffic and hide where the money went. The honest guide to when to use it, how to fence it in, and how to read its opaque reporting.
SEO Ten SEO tactics that survived AI Overviews and still move traffic in 2026. Not the obvious ones — the ones working operators are quietly using while the rest of the industry panics.
SOCIAL 83% of B2B buyers research on Reddit before talking to a vendor — and AI engines pull from it constantly. Here's the community-first playbook to earn citations, generate pipeline, and win the conversations your buyers are already having.
GEO llms.txt is a plain-text index at the root of your domain that tells AI engines which pages are canonical and what each covers. It takes an hour, costs nothing, and measurably increases citations. Here's exactly how to build one.
SOCIAL Instagram growth in 2026 isn't about hashtags or follow-for-follow — those tactics are dead. The real lever is Reels distribution, and Meta's algorithm now picks winners and losers based on a small set of signals most operators ignore.
PR · GEO Digital PR is the only link-building tactic that survived Google's spam updates intact — and in 2026 it earns AI citations on top of rankings. Here's the content formats that earn editorial links, how to pitch for links specifically, and how to measure a channel most analytics dashboards undercredit.