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Search results now answer many questions before anyone clicks, and the posts in this hub start from that fact rather than arguing with it. The question each one asks is narrower than whether SEO is dead: which queries still send visits, which pages still earn trust, and which old tactics quietly stopped working.

Expect more checklists than theory here. Technical hygiene, authorship signals, content decay, local profiles and programmatic pages all get a practical treatment, with the evidence cited where there is any.

137 articles6 guides and pages

E-E-A-T, authorship and trust 16

How a site shows that real people with real experience stand behind it.

Content strategy and originality 19

What to publish when summarising the top ten is no longer enough.

Technical SEO and crawling 18

Crawl, index, speed, redirects, logs and migrations.

SERP features, CTR and AI surfaces 16

Winning the space that is left on a results page full of answers.

Local, ecommerce and vertical SEO 19

Business-profile, product, hospitality, healthcare and real estate specifics.

Also relevant 40

Filed under a neighbouring hub, but worth reading here.

Questions people ask

Is SEO still worth doing?
Yes, with a changed brief. Foundational SEO is still what makes a page eligible to appear in AI features, and branded and high-intent queries still send visits. What has lost value is thin content that restates what already ranks.
Do AI Overviews cut clicks for every query?
Not equally. The posts on CTR and click-yielding queries here break down which types of search still send traffic and which mostly resolve on the results page, so you can plan content around the difference.
What should a small site fix first?
Crawlability and indexation, then authorship and trust pages, then one cluster of genuinely original content. The new-website trust plan and the technical checklist in the reading path cover those in order.

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