My list of the biggest myths in SEO in 2026 New Additions LLMs.txt Schema Chunking “Clear writing” (like, what else would you be writing – in cryptics?) GEO LLMS are independent search engines Intent Matching Information Gain Old Thin Content Word Count Outbound Citations Semantic SEO Meta-Descriptions Backlinks are dead
I’ve spent the last few years watching AI SEO go from a niche curiosity to an industry-wide buzzword, and honestly, most of what gets sold as “AI SEO” still misses how LLMs and SEO actually work. What I’m trying to do—through my work, writing, and community participation—is bridge the gap
A “sample SEO strategy” is not a checklist of generic best practices; it is a small, opinionated system for getting one domain to win very specific searches in a realistic time frame. Start with a narrow, winnable topic map Instead of “doing SEO for everything,” pick a tight cluster where
PageRank and backlinks are still the spine of SEO in 2026, but most of the industry has completely misunderstood what those words actually mean in practice. PageRank is still the real engine Underneath all the new terminology and dashboard metrics, search still runs on a simple idea: links are votes,
Most content marketing doesn’t fail because the writers are bad. It fails because there is no actual SEO strategy beneath the calendar—no defined topics, no focus per page, and no plan for links. At Primary Position, a content marketing SEO strategy is built around one simple equation we keep repeating
Reddit has quietly become one of the most powerful levers for SEO, AI visibility, and demand generation—if you use it like a research lab and distribution channel, not a link dump. For Primary Position’s audience, the opportunity is to treat Reddit as both a place to learn what the market
Most teams buy AI visibility tools, then barely change how they do SEO. The ones that win treat those tools as a second Search Console: a live map of how LLMs actually talk about their brand, competitors, and category, and then rebuild strategy around that. Footnote: Disinformation in GEO Tool
Introduction A modern B2B SEO strategy starts long before someone hits your homepage. It begins where your buyers complain, compare, and troubleshoot: on Reddit, YouTube, X, in Slack communities, and in their calls with your sales team. If you treat those places as the raw source material for everything you
The Basics: SEO 101 Overviews These are the only sources that provide direct information on how Google’s algorithms work: Google Search Central: Formerly “Webmasters,” this is the ultimate hub. It hosts the SEO Starter Guide, which covers the bedrock of crawling, indexing, and serving. Google Search Essentials: (Formerly Webmaster Guidelines)
The best SEO strategy is simple to describe and hard to execute: one strong brand domain as the “mothership,” supported by a small, deliberate network of focused EMD/KID satellite sites, YouTube, Reddit, LinkedIn, and other social profiles that all co‑rank together and reinforce one entity. Instead of trying to get
