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Branded Content

Branded Content: what it is and its role in the new SEO

What branded content really is, how it differs from link building, and how to use it so the market and AI perceive your brand's value.

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Digital PR · AI

The importance of Digital PR in the age of AI

Why digital PR is key in the new SEO: contextual authority, brand mentions and relevance in front of generative AI search engines.

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Digital PR

Digital PR for SEO

What digital PR for SEO is, how it differs from classic link building, and how it improves your brand's reputation with AI.

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GEO · AI

What is GEO or Generative Engine Optimization?

What GEO is, how it differs from SEO, and why there's no GEO without SEO in search engines like ChatGPT or Perplexity.

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Brand perception

Align your vision, mission and values to strengthen brand perception

How to align vision, mission, values and perception goals to build a coherent, credible brand narrative in the age of AI.

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Topical authority

What is Topical Authority: importance, keys and mistakes

What topical authority is, why it matters to Google, and how to improve it: specialisation, expertise, semantics and media coverage.

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Topical Map

How to create a Topical Map

What a Topical Map is and how to design it step by step: pillars, subtopics, internal linking and experts who back up each piece of content.

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SEO entities

SEO entities to optimise your topical authority

What SEO entities are versus keywords, and how to work them with structured data and internal linking to strengthen your authority.

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E-E-A-T

E-E-A-T and the importance of content backed by experience

What Google's E-E-A-T is (experience, expertise, authoritativeness and trust) and how to work it to bring veracity in the age of AI.

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Study · AI

Google and SearchGPT veracity study · Health sector 2025

Our own study of 100 queries on Google and 100 on SearchGPT: to what extent search engines take health specialists into account.

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Link building

What is link building: and above all, what it's NOT

What link building is (and isn't): beyond buying links and obsessing over DR, building links with strategy and a message.

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Strategy · Link building

Defining link building strategies

How to define your strategy before you start looking for links: link profile audit, spotting opportunities, content clusters and internal linking.

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Metrics

Link building metrics

Which link building metrics are worth reporting and which aren't: authority, referring domains, rankings, actions, clipping and profile naturalness.

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Links · Google

The importance of links: the Google leak

What the leaked Google documentation reveals about links: freshness, authors, anchor text and spam detection.

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Disavow

The impact of the Disavow file on rankings

When to submit a disavow to Google (and when not to), what effect it has on your visibility, and how the Naturalness indicator helps you decide risk-free.

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