SEO Knowledge Base: Technical, AI & Strategic Insights
Deep dives and practical guidance across the key domains that shape search performance.
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Search Engine Algorithms & Mechanisms
5 articlesHow crawlers, indexing, ranking signals, and rendering impact visibility.
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Hreflang and x-default for International SEO: When You Actually Need Them
Most sites don't need hreflang. When regional targeting matters, what x-default actually signals, and how to avoid common implementation mistakes.
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Log File Analysis for Technical SEO: Diagnostics, Budget Audits and Validation
How to collect, parse, and interpret server logs to diagnose crawl behaviour, identify budget waste, and validate technical SEO implementations.
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JavaScript SEO: Rendering Strategies for Search Visibility
How search engines process JavaScript, rendering strategies for React, Vue, and Next.js, and principles of progressive enhancement for robust indexability.
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Crawl Budget Optimisation: Capacity Limits and Demand Signals
How crawl capacity and demand determine which pages search engines prioritise, and practical strategies to eliminate waste on large-scale sites.
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Duplicate Content: Detection, Canonicalisation, and Consolidation
How search engines detect and handle duplicate content, why penalties are a myth, and technical solutions for canonicalisation and consolidation.
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Content Strategy & E-E-A-T Principles
4 articlesFrameworks to build trust, depth, and usefulness into every page.
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URL Structure Fundamentals: Architecture, Trailing Slashes, and Persistence
How URL structure affects usability and search performance, including trailing slash conventions, flat vs hierarchical architectures, and designing for long-term persistence.
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Video SEO: Getting Videos Indexed and Featured in Search
Technical requirements for video indexing, from page layout signals to byte range support and complete structured data markup.
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UX For SEO: Web Accessibility, Information Architecture, and Usability
How foundational UX disciplines (accessibility, information architecture, usability) directly influence search engine crawling, indexing, and user experience.
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E-E-A-T for Product Pages: Trust Signals for Transactional Content
How to demonstrate Experience, Expertise, Authoritativeness, and Trustworthiness on transactional pages, beyond editorial content.
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SEO Management & Organisational Design
2 articlesOperating models that keep SEO aligned with product, engineering, and UX.
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SEO Product Management: From Backlog Operations to Growth Strategy
How SEO Product Management differs from traditional SEO, why backlog management isn't enough, and the strategic initiatives that drive organic growth.
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SEO Organisation Design: Structure, Roles, and Governance
How to structure SEO teams, define roles, establish governance, and integrate search considerations into cross-functional product and content workflows.
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Positioning your brand for generative search, AI overviews, and LLM ecosystems.
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Semantic Relevance: How Search and AI Systems Evaluate Meaning
How semantic relevance works in traditional search and AI retrieval systems, from knowledge graphs and embeddings to practical implications for content structure.
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Earning AI Citations: Content Strategy for Generative Search
How to actively optimise for AI visibility through content structure, off-site citation management, and brand positioning in generative search surfaces.
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AI Crawlers and Access Control: Managing Bot Access for Training, Retrieval, and Search
How to manage access for AI training versus retrieval crawlers, from robots.txt to edge-layer enforcement and licensing signals.
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How LLMs and RAG Systems Retrieve, Rank, and Cite Content
How RAG systems retrieve, rank, and cite content—from vector embeddings and re-ranking to information gain and citation attribution.
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Understanding AI Visibility: Fundamentals, Measurement Limits, and Risks
What AI visibility means, why tracking it is difficult, and what risks brands face in generative search—a foundational guide before diving into tactics.
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Recommended Reading
Books that have shaped my thinking on search, strategy, and user behaviour.
- The IR Book
- Don't Make Me Think
- Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion
- Good Strategy, Bad Strategy
- The Paradox of Choice
- High Performance Web Sites
- Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG)
- 10 Usability Heuristics for User Interface Design
- Information Architecture for the World Wide Web
- Content Design
- Designing with the Mind in Mind
- Ambient Findability