For years, a well-known SEO tactic involved buying placement on a large, trusted publication's coupon or review section, letting that domain's existing authority carry thin third-party content straight to the top of search results. Site reputation abuse is Google's...
Sana Morikofte
Algorithmic Penalty: How It Differs From a Manual
Your traffic drops, you check Search Console, and the Manual Actions report says "no issues detected." That is not good news, it just means you are dealing with an algorithmic penalty instead of a human-reviewed one, and the two require completely different recovery...
An Ecommerce SEO Case Study: What We Tested and Found
Most ecommerce SEO advice comes as a general principle: improve your product descriptions, fix your category structure, add reviews. None of that tells you whether the specific change is worth the engineering time on your specific site. This ecommerce seo case study...
SEO Test Ideas and Cases Worth Running on Your Site
The hardest part of experimentation is rarely the methodology, it is deciding what to test first. A good running list of seo test ideas and cases saves you from staring at a blank page every time you have bandwidth to run something new, and it means your next test is...
How to Run SEO Experiments Without Wasting Months
Deciding to test something is the easy part. Most SEO experiments fail not because the idea was bad, but because the setup was sloppy: too few pages, no real control group, or a measurement window closed the moment the first promising number appeared. If you want a...
Does llms.txt Actually Work? What the Data Says in 2026
If you have spent any time in SEO communities over the past year, you have seen the llms.txt pitch: add one small file to your website and AI systems like ChatGPT and Google's AI Overviews will finally understand your content. Some influencer posts go further and...
Internal Linking Strategy for SEO: How to Build Topical Authority From Within Your Site
Internal linking is one of the few SEO levers that is entirely within your control. You do not need to earn it from other websites, negotiate for it, or wait for algorithmic changes to reward it. Every internal link on your site is a deliberate choice — a signal you...
People Also Ask: What It Is and How to Appear in PAA Results
People Also Ask boxes have been part of Google's search results since 2015, which makes them old by search feature standards. What has changed is their relevance. A feature that was once treated as a minor SEO bonus is now directly connected to the AEO research being...
How Google AI Overviews Work: What Gets Selected and Why
Google AI Overviews did not arrive quietly. When Google began rolling them out broadly in May 2024, the SEO community's immediate concern was traffic loss. If Google answers the question on the results page, why would anyone click through to the source? That concern...
Google March 2026 Core Update: What Actually Changed and Who It Hit
When Google confirmed the March 2026 core update on March 4th, the initial reaction across the SEO community was the usual mix of panic, speculation, and contradictory advice. Tracking tools registered volatility levels higher than any previously recorded update....









