
Hiring Your First In-House SEO: What the Role Should Actually Own
A scope-of-role framework for companies making their first SEO hire — what to expect them to own directly versus coordinate with other teams on.
SEO news and tactics that don't fit neatly elsewhere.

A scope-of-role framework for companies making their first SEO hire — what to expect them to own directly versus coordinate with other teams on.

Not another exhaustive 100-item checklist — a prioritized 20-item list ordered by how often each issue is both common and high-impact.

Cuts through 'publish daily' advice with what publishing frequency actually correlates with versus what's confounded by other factors like site authority and content quality.

A category-by-category breakdown of what's actually necessary at different team sizes, not just a generic top-10 list.

A reference glossary covering classic SEO terms alongside the new GEO/AEO vocabulary — RAG, citation rate, answer engine, entity SEO, and more.