I run an SEO/content automation stack for a handful of clients in different niches. Here's what consistently moves rankings in 2026 and what doesn't. What works (data from 12 months, 40+ sites) 1. Topical authority over backlink count Sites with 30 articles all on one tight topic outrank sites with 200 articles spanning 8 topics. Period. Google's helpful content updates buried generalist sites in 2024-2025. Tactic: pick 1 cluster, write 20-30 deep articles, internal-link aggressively. Then move to cluster 2. 2. Real entities, real data, real screenshots LLM-generated walls of text without specifics get filtered out. What ranks: Original screenshots from your tools / dashboards Specific dollar amounts, dates, version numbers Named tools, named people (where appropriate) Tables with comparison data I run vocalis.pro for the content automation side — it's specifically tuned for "augmented" workflows: AI drafts, human adds the entities/numbers, AI fixes structure. 3.…