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A technical SEO specialist fixes the infrastructure that decides whether Google can crawl, index, and rank your site, separate from content and links. Here’s what the role covers, what it pays, and how it differs from an SEO manager or on-page specialist.
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Topical authority is how much Google trusts your site as the go-to source on a subject, and you earn it by covering one topic deeply, not by publishing scattered posts. Here’s my step-by-step system for building pillar pages, mapping content clusters, and interlinking them so Google (and AI answer engines) treat your site as the authority.
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When two pages target the same keyword and intent, Google splits its ranking signals and often ranks neither well. Here’s how I detect cannibalization with the site: operator and Google Search Console, pick one preferred page, and decide between a 301 redirect and a canonical tag, plus the internal-linking cleanup most people skip.
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Sam Altman once called advertising in ChatGPT “a last resort.” On February 9, 2026, OpenAI launched ads anyway at a $60 CPM, for 800 million weekly users. The pilot is now live in the UK, Mexico, Brazil, Japan, and South Korea. Here is what the new paid AI search landscape means for your organic GEO strategy, your paid budgets, and why the two have to be planned together.
ChatGPT Ads: Paid AI Search 2026 Read More »
Google’s new AI Performance Insights in Merchant Center gives retailers their first native share-of-voice benchmark across AI surfaces. At the same time, 68% of searches now end without a click up from 60% in 2024. Here is the full e-commerce playbook: what the new Merchant Center tools actually show you, which schema types drive AI shopping citations, and 7 actions to take before Q3.
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Nearly 60% of Google searches now end without a click. Gartner projected traditional search volume would drop 25% by 2026, and the data is tracking with that prediction. Here’s the full 2026 AEO and GEO playbook: what each discipline covers, what the citation research actually shows, and a 7-step action plan grounded in sourced data.
June 2026 was one of the busiest months in search in years. Google launched its Search Console AI performance report on June 3, Gary Illyes officially classified purchased brand mentions as spam at Search Central Live Shanghai, and a Munich court ruled Google directly liable for false claims in AI Overviews, a legal first. Add in the launch of Google’s Open Knowledge Format (OKF) and the definitive llms.txt verdict, and you have five practitioner-level action items that landed in the same 30-day window. Here’s what each one means and exactly what to do about it.
Google June 2026 SEO Update Read More »
Only 55.9% of web origins pass all three Core Web Vitals as of May 2026, and most failures trace back to four fixable issues: late LCP discovery, JavaScript blocking the main thread, a slow TTFB, and optimizing Lighthouse lab scores instead of real-user CrUX field data.
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The Map Pack appears in 93% of local searches and delivers 126% more traffic than organic-only results, but only 35% of SMBs have a Google Business Profile at all. Here’s the step-by-step 2026 playbook for getting into those three spots and staying there.
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68% of U.S. Google searches now end without a single click to any website. The blog-post-optimized-for-keywords model is structurally breaking and the brands staying visible in 2026 have already rebuilt their content strategy around zero-click distribution, Reddit authority, and AI citation signals.
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Only 47% of websites meet Google’s “Good” Core Web Vitals thresholds, and that’s before the JavaScript rendering issues that block AI crawlers entirely. Here’s the June 2026 technical SEO fix list for both traditional rankings and AI search visibility.
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Google Universal Cart announced at I/O 2026 enables AI agents to add, compare, and purchase products across Search, Gemini, YouTube, and Gmail. If your product feed and structured data aren’t machine-readable, you’re invisible to the AI doing the buying.
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