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Playbooks from the trenches.

52 essays on SEO, GEO, brand, PR, and content. Long-form. Operator voice. No fluff. Updated biweekly.

Account-based marketing (ABM) for B2B in 2026: the complete playbookPLAYBOOK

Account-based marketing (ABM) for B2B in 2026: the complete playbook

ABM is not a campaign type — it's a go-to-market motion that replaces spray-and-pray with surgical precision. Here's the full playbook: account selection, tier logic, content, channels, and measurement.

JUL 9, 2026
Zero-click search in 2026: how to win when nobody clicksSEO

Zero-click search in 2026: how to win when nobody clicks

Most Google searches now end without a single click. This is the playbook for converting visibility into influence — and influence into pipeline — in an era when the answer IS the result.

JUL 7, 2026
Brand positioning strategy: how to define and own your market position in 2026BRAND

Brand positioning strategy: how to define and own your market position in 2026

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.

JUL 4, 2026
B2B marketing attribution in 2026: measuring the 70% of your pipeline your dashboard can't seeANALYTICS

B2B marketing attribution in 2026: measuring the 70% of your pipeline your dashboard can't see

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.

JUL 2, 2026
Conversion rate optimization in 2026: the CRO playbook for marketing teamsPLAYBOOK

Conversion rate optimization in 2026: the CRO playbook for marketing teams

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.

JUN 30, 2026
Performance Max, honestly: when Google's AI campaigns work and when they burn budgetSEM

Performance Max, honestly: when Google's AI campaigns work and when they burn budget

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.

MAY 29, 2026
Hidden SEO tactics that still rank in 2026 (post-AI-Overview edition)SEO

Hidden SEO tactics that still rank in 2026 (post-AI-Overview edition)

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.

MAY 25, 2026
Reddit for B2B marketing in 2026: the community playbook that earns pipeline and AI citationsSOCIAL

Reddit for B2B marketing in 2026: the community playbook that earns pipeline and AI citations

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.

JUN 27, 2026
llms.txt explained: the one-hour setup that gets you cited by AIGEO

llms.txt explained: the one-hour setup that gets you cited by AI

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.

MAY 29, 2026
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