THE PLAYBOOK

Every play, in one place.

These are the exact frameworks I use to win on Google and get cited in AI search. No theory I have not run myself. Pick a play and go.

Most SEO advice online is the same ten tips, rewritten by people who have never watched a six figure traffic line collapse and clawed it back. This is not that. The Playbook is the working manual I use with clients, two decades of measuring search compressed into plays you can actually run.

Here is the deal. Search just split into two games at once. There is the game you know, ranking pages on Google. And there is the new one, getting your brand cited inside the answers from ChatGPT, Perplexity and Google's AI Overviews. They share a foundation, but the second one is where the next decade of attention is moving. So the Playbook covers both, side by side.

Every play follows the same rule I have lived by for 20 years: measure, do not guess. If I cannot show you why something works, I will not tell you to do it.

GEO or SEO, where do you start?

Short answer: both, in the right order. Longer answer:

Classic SEO is the foundation

If Google cannot crawl, render and trust your site, no amount of AI optimization saves you. The answer engines read the same web Google does. Start with technical SEO, keyword research and E-E-A-T.

GEO is the new surface

Once the foundation is solid, you compete for citations in AI answers. That is structure, entities and being a primary source. Start with what GEO is, then getting cited in ChatGPT and winning AI Overviews.

How to use this playbook

01

Read in order, or jump

New to this? Follow the Start Here path. Already deep in it? Each guide stands alone and links to the rest.

02

Run one play at a time

Pick the play that maps to your biggest gap. Ship it, measure it, then move to the next. Compounding beats scattering.

03

Measure everything

Baseline before you change anything. If a play does not move a number you care about, it was decoration. Cut it.

Track your brand in AI search

See which engines cite you, and which cite your competitors instead.

See the GEO benchmark