Tyler Hakes | Jun 10, 2026 | Uncategorized
Article Summary The best AEO agencies in 2026 are Optimist, Discovered Labs, iPullRank, and First Page Sage, ranked by a practitioner based on published AEO case studies with revenue and pipeline metrics. There are a lot of “best AEO agency” lists out...
Tyler Hakes | Jun 10, 2026 | Uncategorized
Article Summary A B2B SEO audit’s job is to diagnose why an organic program isn’t producing pipeline, not catalog crawl errors against a 2018 checklist. Seven dimensions a pipeline-grade audit measures: Pipeline-attribution health, SEO performance, AEO...
Tyler Hakes | Jun 3, 2026 | Uncategorized
Article Summary Generative engine optimization (GEO) is the additive layer on top of SEO that gets a brand named, recommended, and cited in ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, Claude, and Google AI Overviews when buyers ask category questions. Most of GEO is good SEO, but...
Tyler Hakes | May 30, 2026 | Uncategorized
Article Summary AI assistants now drive buyer discovery a layer above the click, leaving Series A B2B SaaS marketing leaders with flat organic dashboards and rising pipeline they can’t explain. This is the Dark Search era and it requires new measurement...
Tyler Hakes | May 27, 2026 | Uncategorized
Article Summary A content marketing strategy in 2026 is the decision layer that commits to qualified pipeline, treats Google search and AI answer engines as a unified visibility surface, and designs every page to carry a complete problem-to-solution-to-product...
Tyler Hakes | May 22, 2026 | Uncategorized
Article Summary SEO for startups succeeds when it’s run as a sequenced strategy that maps the product to a focused set of topics. It fails when treated as a checklist of on-page, off-page, and technical tasks. The winning approach is a five-step sequence:...