Practical guides on technical SEO, Core Web Vitals, site security and answer engine optimisation from the SEOsoft team.
News / Update
Search Engine Land reported Google’s August 2026 spam update hit rankings harder than normal. Here’s what’s known, why diagnosis is tricky, and what to watch in the next 7 days.
Mika Sandgrove | | 4 min read
Checklist
A lightweight 5-gate human-in-the-loop QA workflow for AI-assisted SEO content, with risk tiers and pass/fail acceptance criteria to ship accurate, intent-aligned, on-brand pages without slowing output.
Nadia Gastrom | | 4 min read
Tutorial
A repeatable workflow to map which sources AI answer engines cite, normalize the data, spot gaps by topic cluster, and turn those gaps into a prioritized outreach plan you can measure over time.
Nadia Gastrom | | 5 min read
Checklist
A practical QA checklist to make local service pages easier for AI systems to crawl, understand, cite, and trust—covering indexability, page structure, proof, and safe structured data for multi-location teams.
Mika Sandgrove | | 5 min read
Tutorial
Redirect chains add extra hops before the final URL, slowing pages and wasting crawl resources. Use this step-by-step workflow to find every hop, prioritize fixes, collapse chains to one redirect, and update SEO signals.
Mika Sandgrove | | 4 min read
Best Practices
A lean, step-by-step startup SEO playbook for the next 2–4 weeks: pick winnable keywords, build a simple site structure, publish intent-matched pages, and fix technical blockers so qualified organic traffic converts.
Nadia Gastrom | | 5 min read
News / Update
Google is testing a “Dive deeper” button in Discover that opens topic overviews, starting with videos. Here’s what’s confirmed, why it matters, and related EEA + AI visibility signals.
Nadia Gastrom | | 4 min read
Comparison
A practical robots.txt approach for 2026: protect Google/Bing indexing, selectively discourage verified AI training crawlers, and roll out changes with log checks and a fast rollback.
Mika Sandgrove | | 5 min read
Troubleshooting
A practical workflow to diagnose keyword cannibalization, choose the right primary page, apply the least disruptive fix (merge, differentiate, canonical, or retire), and verify results in Google Search Console.
Nadia Gastrom | | 5 min read
Troubleshooting
Core Web Vitals (LCP, INP, CLS) are real-user performance metrics. Use this workflow to confirm what’s failing, isolate the template causing it, ship high-impact fixes, and validate improvements over time.
Nadia Gastrom | | 5 min read
News / Update
Google’s SEO Pulse flags an AI payment pilot and Search Profiles reaching 10,000, alongside Discover UI testing and an EEA documentation update. Here’s what changed, why it matters, and what to monitor next.
Nadia Gastrom | | 4 min read
Checklist
A safety-first agentic SEO checklist for live sites: audit allowed signals, draft implementation specs, gate approvals by risk, ship in stages, and verify with monitoring and rollback triggers.
Mika Sandgrove | | 5 min read
