The seo.bike team
SEO & GEO practitioners
The team behind seo.bike — we build the safety linter and managed service, and we write these guides from the same playbook. We measure what works and are honest about what does not.
Guides by this author
- Core Web Vitals: What They Are and How to Fix Them — A deep dive into LCP, INP, and CLS: what each measures, the thresholds, common causes, concrete fixes, and their real ranking weight.
- Does SEO Still Work in 2026? An Honest Take — An honest editorial on whether SEO is dead in 2026 — what genuinely stopped working, what still does, and why AI raised the quality bar rather than ending the game.
- Google AI Overviews Explained: Sources and Clicks — What Google AI Overviews are, how they differ from featured snippets, how sources get chosen, their effect on clicks, and the honest reality that there is no paid slot.
- How Search Engines Work: Crawling to Ranking — A deep look at how search engines crawl, render, index and rank the web — how discovery is prioritized, what the index stores, and how signals combine into results.
- How to Build Backlinks Honestly — A practical link-building playbook: linkable assets, digital PR, outreach that isn't spam, what to avoid, and evaluating opportunities.
- How to Do Keyword Research: A Practical Process — A step-by-step keyword research process: seed terms, autosuggest, intent, volume vs difficulty vs value, and topic clustering.
- How to Implement Hreflang Without Errors — A practitioner's guide to hreflang: return links, valid codes, x-default, the three placement methods, debugging, and when to skip it.
- How to Use Canonical Tags Correctly — An implementation guide to canonical tags: self-referencing, cross-domain, parameters, canonical vs redirect vs noindex, and verifying.
- How to Write Title Tags and Meta Descriptions — A hands-on guide to writing title tags and meta descriptions that survive truncation, avoid duplication, and earn clicks.
- SEO vs GEO vs AEO vs AIO: The Acronyms Explained — SEO, GEO, AEO and AIO decoded — what each acronym targets, where they overlap, and an honest guide to when each label actually matters.
- SEO vs SEM vs PPC: Paid and Organic Search Compared — A practical breakdown of SEO, SEM and PPC — how the costs, speed, durability and trust differ, and how to split a budget between earned and paid search.
- The Types of SEO: On-Page, Off-Page and Technical — On-page, off-page and technical SEO explained with concrete task lists — plus how the popular four-pillars framing maps onto the classic three types.
- Generative Engine Optimization: GEO for AI Search — An honest guide to GEO and AEO: how AI Overviews, ChatGPT, and Perplexity choose citations, and why AI visibility is earned, not bought.
- Off-Page SEO: Links, Authority & E-E-A-T — Off-page SEO explained: how backlinks, brand signals, digital PR, and real E-E-A-T build the reputation that helps a site rank.
- On-Page SEO: How to Optimize a Page That Ranks — A practical on-page SEO guide: match search intent, structure content and headings, use titles and internal links well without keyword stuffing.
- Technical SEO: The Crawl, Index & Speed Foundations — An umbrella guide to technical SEO — crawling, indexing, architecture, canonicalization, hreflang, sitemaps, speed, and structured data.
- What Is SEO? A Plain-English Guide for Beginners — SEO explained simply: what the acronym means, how search engines rank pages, and what SEO can and can't do for your site.