GUIDE 01 / SEO STRATEGY
An SEO strategy is a sequence of owned decisions.
A channel wish list becomes a strategy only when it says which opportunity matters, which public surface should own it, what must change, who can release that change and what evidence would reopen the decision.
THE DECISION RECORD
Start with the consequence the business actually wants.
The company supplies the objective, valuable demand, economics and constraints. A page decision defines the reader job; technical SEO carries it into production; reporting tests the decision; and an SEO retainer retains the context when the work stays active.
- 01 / Objective
- The business event or capability the work should support.
- 02 / Opportunity
- The observed demand and result type, including the evidence boundary.
- 03 / Owner
- The one page or public surface responsible for the reader's job.
- 04 / Change
- The smallest coherent content, architecture or technical intervention.
- 05 / Delivery
- The person and system that can publish the complete dependency.
- 06 / Review
- The release proof, observation window and condition that warrants reconsideration.
PRIORITY
Demand is evidence of an opportunity, not its order in the queue.
Priority combines business value, evidence strength, strategic fit, implementation cost and dependency risk. One public surface owns the reader job, and its dependencies enter the sequence before work that assumes it already exists.
DEPENDENCY ORDER
Sequence the work by what must become true first.
A content, engineering and measurement backlog can describe the same decision from three departments. The dependency decides the order.
- Demand
Establish the reader job and the viable result type.
- Ownership
Choose the page and remove unresolved competition.
- Evidence
Secure the facts, proof and business input the proposition requires.
- Delivery
Change every producing layer needed for one coherent release.
- Observation
Verify publication, then read search and business signals at their proper scope.
RECONSIDERATION
Change the strategy when its decision changes.
- New business truth
The offer, economics, capacity or approved claims alter which demand is valuable or supportable.
- New evidence
Demand, results, performance or business outcomes change the observed opportunity.
- Delivery contradiction
The release cannot implement the decision without a dependency, cost or risk the record omitted.
What should search support?
Send the site, objective and current constraint.