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Search Engine Optimization

June 2, 2026
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SEO (search engine optimization) is a shitshow of wrong incentives: not good work / content / reputation counts but who can allocate most resources (money and time) to play the SEO game well (place backlinks and publish content). A better system would be a peer to peer based trust network but until then lets play the SEO hunger games using the best available tools and strategy.

The winning strategy:

  • build backlinks where possible to build domain authority
    • ideally gain natural backlinks by publishing interesting content that people naturally mention and link to
  • identify content gaps in your website with buy intent (buy intent keywords with low ranked competition + ideally high search volume)
  • monitor your content (blog posts) performance (traffic + revenue / conversion) and adapt / update over time

Measure the right target: SEO success should be measured by revenue contribution.

free backlink checker: https://www.seobility.net/en/backlinkchecker/

claude skill: https://github.com/AgriciDaniel/claude-seo

A good backlink is usually a followed, editorially placed link from a relevant and trusted page that itself has visibility or traffic. Nofollow links (from posts on social media f.e.) usually do not pass the same ranking value, but they can still drive referral traffic, brand awareness, and natural discovery.

It seems using country specific top level domains benefits search engine
ranking. https://medium.com/pinterest-engineering/how-switching-our-domain-structure-unlocked-international-growth-e00c8184d5dd

AI tools can help with research, outlines, briefs, clustering, internal-link suggestions, and draft acceleration. Do not publish large volumes of generic AI content without editorial review, original value, and clear usefulness.

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