SEO Guides

The playbooks we use on paid engagements — free.

These aren't 500-word listicles written to fill a content calendar. They're the working documents our strategists use on client engagements, rewritten for you to execute. Take them, run with them, and if you want help applying them — you know where to find us.

Beginner18 min read

The Complete SEO Audit Checklist (30 Points, Zero fluff)

The exact 30-point checklist our strategists use on paid engagements — crawlability, indexation, Core Web Vitals, on-page signals, and the quick wins most sites miss. Work through it in an afternoon and you'll know precisely why your site ranks the way it does.

Technical SEOSite auditsChecklists
Guide in the blog
Beginner14 min read

Keyword Research for Businesses, Not Bloggers

Most keyword guides are written for affiliate bloggers. This one is written for businesses: how to find keywords your buyers search before signing a contract, how to read intent behind a query, and how to prioritize by revenue potential instead of search volume.

Keyword researchSearch intentPrioritization
Guide in the blog
Intermediate16 min read

On-Page SEO That Actually Moves Rankings in 2026

Title tags and keyword density advice is a decade out of date. This guide covers what matters now: entity coverage, helpful-content signals, internal link architecture, and how to structure pages so both Google and AI assistants understand exactly what you do.

On-page SEOContent structureEntities
Guide in the blog
Intermediate21 min read

Link Building Without Spam: A Digital PR Playbook

Buying links is a treadmill you can't get off. This playbook covers the approach we use for clients: linkable asset creation, journalist outreach, HARO-style positioning, and unlinked-brand-mention recovery — with templates you can copy.

Link buildingDigital PROutreach
Guide in the blog
Intermediate15 min read

Local SEO: Win the Map Pack in Your City

For businesses with a physical presence, the map pack is worth more than ten page-one rankings. Learn how Google ranks local results, how to optimize your Google Business Profile properly, and the review-generation system that compounds month after month.

Local SEOGoogle Business ProfileReviews
Guide in the blog
Advanced24 min read

AI Search Optimization (GEO/AEO): The Field Guide

ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, and Google AI Overviews now shape vendor shortlists before a single click happens. This guide explains how AI engines choose which brands to cite, and the entity, schema, and citation-worthy-content strategy we use to get clients recommended.

GEO / AEOAI searchEntities & schema
Guide in the blog
Advanced19 min read

Ecommerce SEO: Collection Pages, Facets & Scale

Product pages rarely rank; collection pages are where ecommerce revenue lives. This guide covers collection-page copy at scale, faceted navigation control, internal linking for large catalogs, and platform-specific fixes for Shopify and WooCommerce.

Ecommerce SEOShopifyFaceted navigation
Guide in the blog
Advanced12 min read

Content Cannibalization: Find and Fix It in One Day

When five pages target the same intent, Google ranks none of them well. This step-by-step guide shows you how to find cannibalization with any SEO tool, decide which page should rank, and merge or re-target the rest without losing traffic.

Content strategyCannibalizationSite structure
Guide in the blog

How to get the most out of these guides

1. Start with the audit

The 30-point audit checklist tells you where you stand. Everything else in SEO is easier once you know which third of the checklist is broken.

2. Fix intent before volume

A page-one ranking for a keyword buyers never use is a participation trophy. The keyword research guide shows how to tell the difference before you write a word.

3. Instrument everything

Set up conversion tracking before you publish anything. Guides can't tell you what's working in YOUR market — your data can.

Rather have us run the playbooks for you?

Reading is the easy part. If you want a senior team executing this week after week — with reporting that ties to revenue — let's talk.