Content Decay: How to Find the Pages Quietly Losing Traffic

Organic traffic rarely collapses. It erodes — a few percent here, a lost snippet there — until a channel that grew for two years is quietly shrinking. Here’s how to find decay before the quarterly report does. First, separate decay from its lookalikes Three patterns produce falling organic traffic, and they need different responses. Seasonality … Read more

A Search Growth Audit Should Answer Seven Questions

Most SEO audits are inventories of imperfections. Useful for a developer’s backlog; useless for deciding what to do. A diagnostic worth paying for answers questions, and there are seven that matter. 1. What is blocking growth? Not “what is imperfect” — what is actually constraining the system. A site can carry two hundred technical warnings … Read more

What Google Actually Says About AI Overviews — and What to Do With It

Strip away the industry noise and Google has actually been unusually direct about AI Overviews and AI Mode. Here is what the documentation says, what it doesn’t, and what a sensible team does with both. What Google says, in its own documentation The core statement sits in Google’s “AI Features and Your Website” documentation: SEO … Read more