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LinkGuard cover — GEO vs SEO: why your content strategy needs both in 2026
SEO Strategies

GEO vs SEO: why your content strategy needs both in 2026

Your rankings stayed the same but traffic dropped 34%. The culprit? AI Overviews answering queries before users click. Learn what GEO (Generative Engine Optimization) is, how it differs from SEO, and which tactics actually work — backed by Princeton research data.

Andrei

Andrei

Dec 10, 2025 • 8 min
Backlink management as four separate jobs — know, monitor, audit, recover — mapped to the deep-dive for each — LinkGuard
SEO Strategies

How to manage your backlinks: audit, monitor, recover

"Backlink management" is one phrase covering four separate jobs: knowing what you have, watching it for loss, auditing the rare bad link, and recovering the ones that vanish. Here's the honest map of the terrain — including Google's own position that most sites don't need to police their links at all — and where to go deep on each.

Andrei

Andrei

Dec 10, 2025 • 8 min
A backlink watch list being re-checked on a schedule — link removed, dofollow swapped to nofollow, anchor edited, donor page deindexed — the four ways a backlink quietly dies — LinkGuard
SEO Strategies

How to monitor your backlinks: a practical workflow

Checking your backlinks is a snapshot; monitoring is the ongoing watch that catches the ones that quietly die. Here's a complete, tool-agnostic workflow for watching the links you already earned — free spreadsheet method first, automation only where it earns its keep.

Andrei

Andrei

Dec 05, 2025 • 12 min