Shalin Siriwardhana

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Personal notes on SEO, AI search, content strategy, and durable organic growth.

A Practical Way to Run a Local GEO Baseline Audit

Notes / SEO / Jul 16, 2026

A Practical Way to Run a Local GEO Baseline Audit

Think of it like stepping on a scale before starting a diet. If you don't know your starting number, you'll never know whether. The practical question is what this changes for SEO, content quality, and AI search visibility.

Google Is Using Social Media Signals to Mask AI Search Click Loss: the Strategic Visibility Angle

Notes / SEO / Jul 16, 2026

Google Is Using Social Media Signals to Mask AI Search Click Loss

To understand this strategy, you must look at the crisis Google faces with web publishers. Generative search experiences and AI. The practical question is what this changes for SEO, content quality, and AI search visibility.

AI SEO: Writing That’s Specific May Get Cited More: the Operator's View

Notes / SEO / Jul 16, 2026

AI SEO: Writing That’s Specific May Get Cited More

SEOs like to write articles based on keywords, and that's actually how people did it in the relative caveman days of SEO, well. The practical question is what this changes for SEO, content quality, and AI search visibility.

How Do I Split Pages Between Brand Building & Converting?: the Practical Angle

Notes / SEO / Jul 16, 2026

How Do I Split Pages Between Brand Building & Converting?

The goal of conversion rate optimization (CRO) is to help the person take a specific action, which could be adding a product to a. The practical question is what this changes for SEO, content quality, and AI search visibility.

How Google May ‘Understand’ Unique Content: the Practical Angle

Notes / SEO / Jul 16, 2026

How Google May ‘Understand’ Unique Content

Google has multiple public and leaked systems that appear to evaluate originality, effort, and unique contribution, see. The practical question is what this changes for SEO, content quality, and AI search visibility.

Where AI Agents Get Stuck on Your Site: the Practical Angle

Notes / SEO / Jul 16, 2026

Where AI Agents Get Stuck on Your Site

The moment a prospect looks at pricing, they stop browsing and start comparing. High buyer intent, bottom of the funnel. That. The practical question is what this changes for SEO, content quality, and AI search visibility.

Google Is AI Mode’s No. 2 Most-cited Domain: Report: the Practical Angle

Notes / SEO / Jul 16, 2026

Google Is AI Mode’s No. 2 Most cited Domain: Report

Google's AI Mode increased citations to google.com by 8.4x in about two months, making it the No. 2 cited domain in Profound's. The practical question is what this changes for SEO, content quality, and AI search visibility.

Google AI Mode Ads Reach Nearly 30% of Queries: Study: the Practical Angle

Notes / SEO / Jul 16, 2026

Google AI Mode Ads Reach Nearly 30% of Queries: Study

Google's AI Mode showed text ads on 29.45% of commercial queries in a new SE Ranking study, less than a year after ads began. The practical question is what this changes for SEO, content quality, and AI search visibility.