What I work on: entity SEO and AI visibility
Entity SEO treats expertise, experience, and trust as attributes of a person or organization – an entity – rather than of an individual page. That difference is the engine behind most of what I research, write, and present.
A page can be optimized. An entity has to be built.
Two ideas come out of that work.
Trust Halo
Trust Halo is the name I give to the transfer of an established entity’s trust to a new domain connected to it. When the search ecosystem already knows who’s behind a project, a brand-new site can inherit credibility it hasn’t earned on its own yet. I didn’t plan mine – I noticed it.
In February 2026 I launched a new site with just over a dozen articles and no backlinks at all. By March it had reached around 4,000 clicks. The likely explanation wasn’t the domain – it was the entity behind it: Google and several language models already had enough signals to connect the project with me. The full case study, with the data, is in my latest book.
Authority triangulation
Authority triangulation is establishing three distinct kinds of authority – institutional, market, and substantive – so that credibility doesn’t rest on a single source. One alone is fragile. Three, all pointing at the same person, are hard to dismiss – for a journalist, a search engine, or a model.