🎧 Listen to the episode: I’ll be honest: talking with Joshua Altman of Beltway Media changed my own opinion about the role of SEO. For most of my career I thought of myself as a lone gunman — head down, ranking pages, doing my own thing in my own lane. Joshua is a fractional Chief […]
Why I’m Done Being a ‘Lone Gunman’ SEO Read More »
What a conversation with Snappa/GoodMetrics founder Christopher Gimmer changed about how I think about agent traffic, earning links, and where SEO sits inside AI visibility.
Robots With Wallets: Rethinking Bot Traffic, Links & the Content Playbook Read More »
Erika Braeger of Tenspeed on building confident teams, using AI to kill the pre-work, writing humans-first-but-machine-readable, never rushing a migration, and what AI actually cites at the B2B evaluation stage.
The Faceless-Client Era Is Over: Lessons From Erika Braeger Read More »
I’m hosting a free link building meetup in Cookeville — July 7, 2026, 9 AM at Poet’s Coffee. Come learn link building that works for LLMs and Google.
Join Me for Coffee & Links in Cookeville — Free Meetup July 7 Read More »
Interviews build proprietary, high-depth content your competitors can’t scrape or replicate. Here’s why distribution plus depth is the durable SEO play.
The Content Library No Competitor Can Copy Read More »
AI can’t fix a roof. Why home-services and blue-collar trades are the real opportunity, and how customer-first positioning wins regulated markets.
The Future Millionaires Are Blue-Collar Read More »
Stop panicking over traffic graphs. Tie SEO to revenue, build complete signals, and algorithm updates stop being scary. Lessons from two SEO pros.
Traffic Is a Proxy: Measure SEO by Revenue Instead Read More »
Adrian Nikolov of Haide Digital and I get into why AI isn’t taking SEO jobs — fear is — plus owning your audience instead of renting it from Google, prompt-tracking’s non-repeatability problem, and where SEO’s real value sits in the AI era.
Owning Your Audience in the AI Era: My Conversation With Adrian Nikolov Read More »
An SEO and a paid-media operator take opposite chairs and reach the same conclusion: fundamentals told honestly still win. My Unscripted SEO conversation with Matt Slaymaker.
Opposite Chairs, Same Truth: What a Paid-Media Pro Taught Me About Honest Marketing Read More »
Two-decade SEO Rob Bonham on stewardship over volume, measuring in a post-attribution world, link building as footprint, and getting paid as an independent.
What Rob Bonham Taught Me About Surviving SEO’s Agentic Age Read More »