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No fluff. No filler. Hard-earned lessons on programmatic SEO, AI SEO, and product-led growth from founders who grew 0 → 1.2M organic users a year (GA peak).
Written for founders and marketing leads who buy SEO and want to know what good work looks like. Deciding who should do it? Start with fractional vs agency vs in-house. Most posts cover programmatic SEO and getting cited in AI answers, which is also the work we do for clients.
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- Winning Citations in AI Answers: A Tactical Playbook for AIO/AEO/GEO
How to get cited in AI answers: a step-by-step playbook covering content structure, schema, off-page citations, crawler access, and citation measurement.
read more → · by Bobby K - Website Migration SEO Checklist (2026): 60 Steps
A phased website migration SEO checklist: benchmark, URL map, redirects, staging QA, launch day and a 90-day watch, with the traps AI rebuilds miss.
read more → · by Dr Blaze - Is WordPress Still Worth It? AI-Era Alternatives (2026)
WordPress runs 40% of the web, but AI changed the math. An honest 2026 verdict on cost, security and SEO, plus the WordPress alternatives worth a look.
read more → · by Bobby K - Webflow Migration Guide: To or From WordPress, or Astro
Leaving Webflow, or moving to it? Compare three migration routes, what Webflow exports, the SEO steps, and which route fits your team.
read more → · by Dr Blaze - Squarespace to WordPress Migration Without Losing Rankings
Move from Squarespace to WordPress step by step: what exports, what doesn't, and how to keep your URLs, SEO and images intact.
read more → · by Dr Blaze - Competitor Keyword Research, Done Right
A tactical methodology for competitor keyword research: find real gaps, prioritize by intent, and turn analysis into a content plan that moves rankings.
read more → · by Bobby K - Programmatic SEO at Scale Without the Spam Tsunami
The quality/ops playbook for programmatic seo at scale: data audits, template architecture, QA gates, and kill switches that keep you off Google's radar.
read more → · by Bobby K - Mastering Bing: Webmaster Tools, IndexNow, and the Copilot Search Layer
A practical guide to bing webmaster tools, IndexNow setup, and tracking Copilot citations: the 5-10% of organic traffic that most SEO pros never collect.
read more → · by Dr Blaze - Google's Spam Policies: What Actually Gets Your Site Demoted or Removed
Google's spam policies explained: 16 named categories, how SpamBrain enforces them, what Scaled Content Abuse and Site Reputation Abuse mean for your site.
read more → · by Bobby K - Technical SEO and Structured Data: Rich Results, JSON-LD, and Search Console Monitoring
Technical guide to structured data SEO: JSON-LD, Google's 31 rich result types, the Rich Results Test, Search Console monitoring, and debugging rich results.
read more → · by Dr Blaze - Content Quality and Ranking: How Google's Helpful Content and E-E-A-T Systems Work
What Google's content quality systems actually measure (including the March 2024 change to helpful content) and how E-E-A-T frames your ranking signals.
read more → · by Bobby K - Crawling and Indexing: How to Control What Google Discovers, Crawls, and Indexes
A blunt technical guide to crawling and indexing SEO: robots.txt, XML sitemaps, canonical tags, and crawl budget, grounded in Google's own documentation.
read more → · by Dr Blaze - Google SEO Starter Guide Explained: What Google Actually Wants
Google's SEO Starter Guide and Search Essentials, explained: the four core levers, what not to obsess over, and when you actually need an SEO pro.
read more → · by Bobby K - How Google Search Actually Works: Crawling, Indexing, and Ranking Explained
Learn how Google Search works: crawling, indexing, and ranking explained using Google's own three-stage model, plus how to diagnose where your site fails.
read more → · by Dr Blaze - Fractional SEO vs Agency vs In-House: Which Actually Wins
An honest decision guide to fractional SEO vs agency vs in-house hiring: what each model costs, where it wins, and a framework for choosing the right one.
read more → · by Bobby K - Self-Hosting WordPress on a Hetzner VPS: What It Costs, What It Takes, What Can Go Wrong
An honest, first-hand guide to self-hosting WordPress on a Hetzner VPS: the LEMP stack, caching, security, the silent failures, and what you'd actually own.
read more → · by Dr Blaze - Measuring SEO Like a Psychometrician
Most SEO measurement is methodologically naive. A psychometrician's guide to how to measure SEO: construct vs proxy, measurement error, validity, and Goodhart.
read more → · by Dr Blaze - What is Product-led SEO?
This approach isn’t possible for all verticals and models, but it has been gaining traction alongside Product-led Growth (PLG), in particular getting
read more → · by Bobby K - Growing with AIO / AEO is mostly good old SEO
Critics call these changes evolutionary. Featured snippets and position zero have required similar optimization for years. Limited
read more → · by Bobby K - Programmatic SEO tools
Programmatic SEO tools have taken stage since 2023 and the LLM / ChatGPT / AI craze. It is mind-boggling at times what’s being created, though we know at
read more → · by Bobby K
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