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  • Lessons From a Decade of Programmatic SEO

    Lessons From a Decade of Programmatic SEO

    This is the final post in a three-part series on programmatic SEO. Part one covered what it is and whether it’s worth your time. Part two walked through the simplest way to get started. This post is the retrospective — what I’ve learned from building programmatic SEO projects since 2014, what actually works, and what’s…

  • The Simplest Programmatic SEO You Can Build Today

    The Simplest Programmatic SEO You Can Build Today

    In the last post, I explained what programmatic SEO is and when it’s worth pursuing. The short version: it’s creating web pages using templates and data instead of writing every page by hand. But knowing what it is and actually building it are different things. Most guides jump straight to complex tech stacks — custom…

  • What Is Programmatic SEO (And Is It Worth Your Time?)

    What Is Programmatic SEO (And Is It Worth Your Time?)

    A decade ago, I launched a product called Automatic Blog Machine. The idea was simple: use natural language processing to find synonyms and rotate sentence structures so that scraped content wouldn’t get flagged as duplicate text. Spin a paragraph enough times and Google’s algorithms couldn’t tell it was the same article published across a hundred…