Insights

Notes from the field.

We've spent two decades writing about search, content and growth marketing for the industry's biggest publications. Here's where you'll find our work.

Interactive Courses
COURSE / 01

Generative Engine Optimization (GEO) for Technical Documentation New

An interactive, self-paced course on getting your documentation discovered, cited and recommended by LLMs and AI coding tools, and how to decide what to keep open or lock down.

  • Six audio-narrated modules (~22 min)
  • Live visuals: query fan-out, decision matrix, referral trends
  • An open-vs-gated framework for your docs
  • Interactive “is your documentation AI-ready?” self-audit
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COURSE / 02

Topic Clusters That Rank New

An interactive, self-paced course on choosing content topics that actually rank and convert: building clusters, staying inside your topic radius, and infusing real expertise.

  • Six audio-narrated modules (~20 min)
  • Live visuals: three-filter test, cluster map, topic radius
  • A mid and lower funnel weighting framework
  • Interactive “is your content plan built to rank?” self-audit
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COURSE / 03

Interactive Content & Data Visualization for SEO New

An interactive, self-paced course on building tools and visualizations that earn links and get cited: when to use a widget, a coded chart or an image, and how to keep them readable to machines.

  • Six audio-narrated modules (~20 min)
  • Live visuals: format selector, what-the-machine-reads toggle
  • A crawlable, self-contained build standard
  • Interactive “are your visuals built to get cited?” self-audit
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COURSE / 04

Content Refresh & Pruning Playbook New

An interactive, self-paced course on the fastest lever for older sites: substantive refreshes plus disciplined pruning, with a keep, refresh, redirect, noindex and pivot triage for every page.

  • Six audio-narrated modules (~21 min)
  • Live visuals: refresh priority matrix, redirect-chain diagram
  • An interactive five-way URL triage engine
  • Interactive “is your site carrying dead weight?” self-audit
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Tom Demers

CO-FOUNDER, MANAGING PARTNER

Over a decade writing on paid search, SEO, and content marketing for some of the most-read publications in the industry.

Writes about

  • Google Ads and paid search strategy
  • PPC keyword research and account structure
  • SEO and content for B2B and SaaS
  • Answer Engine Optimization (AEO)

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Ken Lyons

CO-FOUNDER, MANAGING PARTNER

Two decades in SEO and strategic content marketing. Co-founded Cornerstone Content, a free content marketing education resource.

Writes about

  • Finding keywords that actually rank
  • Measuring content marketing success
  • Content distribution and promotion
  • Improving your blog's SEO power

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