
Off Page SEO In 2026: Brand Mentions, Digital PR, And Links That Still Matter
A keep/kill/add triage of the off-page portfolio: which link tactics survive the AI search era, what to stop paying for, and the new lines that earn budget.
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A keep/kill/add triage of the off-page portfolio: which link tactics survive the AI search era, what to stop paying for, and the new lines that earn budget.

The honest verdict with the numbers in one place, what real users say about their own habits, and the five moves SaaS teams should make either way.

Both charts are right. The four numbers your meetings keep conflating, why they move in opposite directions, and the reporting template that ends the argument.

The verification timeline for migrations: what evidence to capture before launch, what to check the day of, and how to tell real damage from ordinary churn after.

One operating guide for Google's three search surfaces: how B2B SaaS sites win organic, AI Overviews, and AI Mode by mapping each to the buyer journey.

Follow the institutions instead of the discourse: what Google's guidance, job postings, tool suites, and team structures say about where GEO is actually landing.

Ten well-intentioned SEO habits that quietly cost citations: crawler panic-blocks, buried answers, stub sprawl, entity drift, and the instruments that hide it all.

Google answered this one directly, twice, in writing. The full record of what they said, the four-part reasoning underneath it, and what actually moves citations.

The generative AI report finally shows where you appear in AI Overviews and AI Mode. How impressions actually count, the five tracks worth watching, and what it can't see.

Citations up, sessions down: how to tell ambient zero-click decline from self-inflicted AEO damage, and how to rebalance the portfolio so both games get won.

The click data says yes for some sites and no for others. The full evidence review: how big the drop really is, who's hit hardest, and what recovers value.

The working checklist: eligibility, extraction structure, trust signals, technical parity, the SaaS pages that matter most, and the measurement loop that grades it.
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