Research

Latest original research articles and insights

Backlinks remain an important Google ranking signal. Here’s what the data actually shows, which links are worth building, and how they can support your visibility in AI search.

Backlinks for Google and AI Search: What Still Matters

Backlinks remain an important Google ranking signal. Here’s what the data actually shows, which links are worth building, and how they can support your visibility in AI search.

View Research

Off page SEO is the external authority engine that determines whether your site ranks in Google or gets cited by AI. Here is exactly how to build it.

Off Page SEO: How to Build Authority, Backlinks and AI Visibility

Off page SEO is the external authority engine that determines whether your site ranks in Google or gets cited by AI. Here is exactly how to build it.

View Research

Discover why auditing your core web vitals is critical to your AI SEO strategy and how to systematically identify and fix performance problems that damage your search visibility.

How to Audit Core Web Vitals: Complete Technical SEO Guide

Discover why auditing your core web vitals is critical to your AI SEO strategy and how to systematically identify and fix performance problems that damage your search visibility.

View Research

If your rankings have stalled despite solid content and links, the problem is almost always in the technical foundation - and an SEO technical audit is how you find it.

SEO Technical Audit: How to Find and Fix What’s Holding Your Site Back

If your rankings have stalled despite solid content and links, the problem is almost always in the technical foundation - and an SEO technical audit is how you find it.

View Research

EEAT is a useful framework for improving content quality and trust signals. It can support visibility in Google Search and AI-assisted search experiences, but Google does not treat it as a standalone citation gatekeeper.

EEAT Explained: How to Build Trust Signals for Google and AI Search

EEAT is a useful framework for improving content quality and trust signals. It can support visibility in Google Search and AI-assisted search experiences, but Google does not treat it as a standalone citation gatekeeper.

View Research

If your site isn't optimised for mobile, you're not just losing Google rankings, you're invisible to the AI platforms your customers are increasingly searching on.

Mobile SEO: How to Rank Higher on Google and AI Search

If your site isn't optimised for mobile, you're not just losing Google rankings, you're invisible to the AI platforms your customers are increasingly searching on.

View Research

Search intent is the reason every query gets typed - and the factor that determines whether your content ranks, converts or gets ignored entirely by both Google and AI search.

Search Intent in 2026: How to Match Content to User Intent Across Google and AI Search

Search intent is the reason every query gets typed - and the factor that determines whether your content ranks, converts or gets ignored entirely by both Google and AI search.

View Research

Technical SEO is the invisible infrastructure layer that determines whether your content ranks in Google, gets cited by ChatGPT and AI Overviews, and converts the traffic that arrives. Here is everything you need to know to get it right in 2026.

Technical SEO for 2026: How to Build a Website Google and AI Search Can Crawl, Index and Surface

Technical SEO is the invisible infrastructure layer that determines whether your content ranks in Google, gets cited by ChatGPT and AI Overviews, and converts the traffic that arrives. Here is everything you need to know to get it right in 2026.

View Research

If Google no longer ranks pages for repeating keywords, it ranks them for demonstrating genuine understanding of a topic, here's exactly what that means for your content strategy.

Semantic SEO: How to Rank for Meaning, Intent and AI Search

If Google no longer ranks pages for repeating keywords, it ranks them for demonstrating genuine understanding of a topic, here's exactly what that means for your content strategy.

View Research

AI search no longer relies only on matching one page to one query. It fans out your question into multiple sub-queries, and if your content doesn’t help answer those, you’re far less likely to be cited or recommended.

What Is Query Fan-Out? How AI Search Turns One Query Into Many

AI search no longer relies only on matching one page to one query. It fans out your question into multiple sub-queries, and if your content doesn’t help answer those, you’re far less likely to be cited or recommended.

View Research

Most businesses treat a national SEO campaign like a scaled-up local strategy. Here’s why that fails and what actually drives revenue at a national level.

How to Build a National SEO Campaign That Drives Revenue at Scale

Most businesses treat a national SEO campaign like a scaled-up local strategy. Here’s why that fails and what actually drives revenue at a national level.

View Research

If 67% of websites have broken hreflang tags and yours is one of them, your international pages are fighting each other instead of your competitors.

International SEO Audit: How to Find and Fix Global Search Visibility Issues

If 67% of websites have broken hreflang tags and yours is one of them, your international pages are fighting each other instead of your competitors.

View Research

AI Search Is Moving Fast. The Question Is: Are You?

Rankmax

Every month you wait, your competitors grow stronger. Let’s make sure you’re the one out in front.

45 minute discovery call • No sales pitch • See if we're a fit