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Keyword targeting is dead. Google's semantic clustering groups related concepts to understand topic authority. We explain how to optimize for meaning instead of matching.

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Semantic Clustering for SEO: How Google Groups Concepts, Not Keywords

You rank #3 for "content marketing strategy." You also rank for "content planning framework," "editorial calendar best practices," and "content...

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AI chatbots answer questions without sending traffic. Zero-click search just evolved into no-search answers. We examine what happens to SEO when users never visit websites.

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Search Without Searching: How AI Chatbots Are Killing Traditional SEO

Someone asks ChatGPT for a local excavation company. Gets an answer. Visits the site. That's the optimistic scenario SEO professionals cling to—AI as...

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The three-category search intent model is broken. Real search behavior is messier, more nuanced, and far more revealing about what content actually needs to deliver.

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The Taxonomy of Search Intent: Beyond Informational, Transactional, and Navigational

SEO textbooks teach that search intent falls into three neat categories: informational (learning), transactional (buying), and navigational...

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Search isn't just Google anymore. Discover why multi-channel presence across search engines, AI platforms, and social is now essential—and what that means for your strategy.

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The Multi-Channel Search Reality: Why SEO Now Means Everywhere

For the first time ever, I'm watching SEOs and industry experts talk multi-channel strategy. Before, it was always eighty-five percent website is...

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AI search is vulnerable to the same spam tactics that worked in early SEO. Here's why LLMs are easier to manipulate than you think—and what that means for your brand.

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LLMs Are Malleable: What Black Hat Tactics from 2010 Mean for AI Search

LLMs are deeply malleable, and right now, they are completely susceptible to the spam tactics that kind of worked pretty well for Black Hat SEO ten...

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Websites aren't just information repositories anymore. Discover why building community on your owned properties is the search strategy that will matter most in 2026.

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Your Website as Community: The Search Strategy Nobody's Talking About

Your website being a community—this one is fun, and I've been seeing more of this. It's a little different, but I think the shift toward wanting...

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AI search tracking is a black box, and the tools claiming to solve it aren't ready. Here's why personalization makes measurement nearly impossible—and what to do about it.

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Why AI Search Is (Currently) Impossible to Track

We've been talking about personalization and marketing for, like, twelve thousand million trillion years. We know how important it is, and how great...

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People don't search to be educated or entertained anymore. Discover the three actual motivations driving search behavior in 2025—and how to create content that matches.

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The Three Real Reasons People Search (And Why HubSpot's Framework Is Outdated)

I remember the foundational HubSpot framework from fifteen years ago, when they said the reasons why people search something on the internet. That...

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Topic clusters aren't cutting it anymore. Discover why concept coverage is the evolved approach to SEO content that actually competes

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Why Traditional Topic Clusters Are Dead

I've been saying for a long time that the traditional topic cluster probably isn't going to work as well anymore. And I know some people disagree...

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SEO isn't dead—it's evolving. Cut through the sensationalism to understand what's actually changing in search and why Google still matters for your marketing strategy in 2025.

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The Death of SEO: Debunking the Internet's Favorite Marketing Myth

I can't tell you how many YouTube videos I've seen with gravestones and people dramatically falling backwards onto the grave of SEO. It's become the...

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