Insights for SEO teams

Content strategy, keyword research, and agency growth, practical advice from the AltoRank team.

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AI Content Traffic Drop: The Recovery Path the Data Supports

Your AI content lost its Google traffic and there is no manual action to appeal. What the 2026 evidence says happened, and the recovery sequence that follows.

Mike Cecconello
seo

Open Source AI SEO Tools, Compared by What They Publish

Five open-source AI SEO projects verified against the GitHub API: licence, maintenance, and the question listicles skip — which can actually publish to a CMS.

Mike Cecconello
seo

Answer Engine Optimization: A Multi-Surface Playbook

AEO covers every system returning direct answers: ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, AI Overviews. One playbook for all.

Updated Mike Cecconello
seo

Internal Linking Tool for Agencies: Propose, Don't Insert

The best internal linking tools propose links rather than insert them. The criteria, and the pattern that scales.

Updated Mike Cecconello
seo

Schema Markup for AI: The Inventory-Layer Playbook (2026)

A technical deep-dive on schema markup for AI retrieval: the JSON-LD types, properties, and patterns that actually move citation outcomes in 2026.

Updated Mike Cecconello
seo

What Is GEO? Generative Engine Optimization Explained

Earning citations inside AI answers: what GEO is, how it differs from SEO, and how agencies should structure it.

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seo

How to Get Cited by AI: 14 Tactics That Work (2026)

14 tactics that earn AI citations in ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Gemini, organized by leverage for agencies running GEO across multiple clients.

Mike Cecconello
seo

How to Rank in ChatGPT: An Agency Playbook

The four-layer framework agencies use to rank client brands inside ChatGPT, and the loop that sustains it.

Mike Cecconello
seo

How to Rank in Perplexity: An Agency Playbook

Perplexity cites sources in every answer. The agency framework, adapted to its specific retrieval surface.

Mike Cecconello
seo

Agency Keyword Research Across 10+ Clients

Per-client keyword sets, opportunity scoring and a monthly refresh cadence that does not burn the strategy team.

Mike Cecconello
seo

LLM SEO: How It Differs From GEO and AEO (Agency Guide)

LLM SEO is the practitioner term for optimizing client content to be retrieved and cited by large language models. Here's how it relates to GEO, AEO, and SEO.

Mike Cecconello
agencies

SEO Content Strategy for Agencies: An Operating Model

How agencies turn SEO content into a repeatable engine: voice, inputs, production and measurement.

Mike Cecconello