Tyler Hakes | Jul 10, 2026 | Uncategorized
Article Summary Across seven Optimist engagements (HelloSign’s $230M acquisition, Stampli’s 5x monthly pipeline, Glide’s 14x weekly signups, and more) the same operating pattern shows up. Pipeline as the north star from day one, keyword universes...
Tyler Hakes | Jul 3, 2026 | Uncategorized
Article Summary The SEO monthly retainer model still works because compounding organic work needs recurring capacity. Retainers commonly include technical SEO, content production, on-page optimization, link building and off-site work, and reporting. But with 51% of...
Tyler Hakes | Jun 23, 2026 | Uncategorized
Article Summary The best AI SEO agencies get a brand recommended by name when a buyer asks ChatGPT, Perplexity, or Google’s AI Overviews which vendor to choose, and the strongest run that work as one system with traditional SEO measured in pipeline, not traffic...
Tyler Hakes | Jun 19, 2026 | Uncategorized
Article Summary The agency that wins GEO is the one that can show a brand getting mentioned and recommended by name when a buyer asks ChatGPT, Perplexity, or Google’s AI Overview “what’s the best tool for X” — the outcome that moves pipeline — not one reporting that...
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...
