The Ultimate SEO Iceberg Which level are you? Level 1 ↳ On-page ↳ Keywords ↳ Local SEO ↳ Fixing 404s ↳ Hx headers ↳ Guest posting ↳ Traffic analysis Level 2 ↳ Long tail ↳ Reporting ↳ Rich snippets ↳ Content briefs ↳ Technical SEO ↳ Structured data ↳ Robots.txt directives Level 3 ↳ User intent ↳ XML sitemaps ↳ Backlink audits ↳ Indexing strategy ↳ Competitor analysis ↳ Mobile optimization Level 4 ↳ Link building ↳ URL structure ↳ Internal linking ↳ Canonicalization ↳ Crawling strategy ↳ Duplicate content Level 5 ↳ Voice search ↳ Topic clusters ↳ Web performance ↳ Content strategies ↳ TOFU/MOFU/BOFU ↳ Core update recovery Level 6 ↳ Crawl depth ↳ International SEO ↳ Website migration ↳ Server log analysis ↳ Information architecture Level 7 ↳ Digital PR ↳ SSR vs CSR ↳ Brand signals ↳ JavaScript SEO ↳ Featured snippet optimization Level 8 ↳ Pagerank ↳ Rankbrain ↳ Penalty recovery ↳ Redirect management Level 9 ↳ Automation ↳ User signals ↳ NLP optimization ↳ Programmatic SEO ↳ Entity oriented search Level 10 ↳ Semantic SEO ↳ Authority signals ↳ Content freshness ↳ Batch optimized rendering Level 11 ↳ Topical maps ↳ Topical coverage ↳ Topical authority ↳ Searcher task accomplishment Level 12 ↳ Content relevance ↳ Represented queries ↳ Content configuration ↳ Representative queries Level 13 ↳ Historical data ↳ Knowledge graph ↳ Semantic distance ↳ Contextual coverage Level 14 ↳ Query processing ↳ Semantic similarity ↳ Content momentum ↳ Content responsiveness Level 15 ↳ Central entity ↳ Source context ↳ Macrosemantics ↳ Supplementary content Level 16 ↳ Contextual bridge ↳ Sequence modelling ↳ Contextual hierarchy ↳ Contextual relevance ↳ Microsemantic optimization Level 17 ↳ Custom LLMs ↳ Contextual flow ↳ Contextual border ↳ Information retrieval Level 18 ↳ Quality nodes ↳ Cost of retrieval ↳ Latent Dirichlet Allocation Huge shoutout to Koray Tugberk GUBUR who introduced me to the majority of the bottom half of this iceberg P.S. REPOST ♻️ if you learned something new about SEO P.P.S. Do you need help with SEO? Book a 1:1 SEO Accelerator Hour (Link in Bio) 🙌
How many years it takes to learn all this ?, I'm only at 25%
What is quality nodes?
Thanks for sharing
Never seen an ”iceberg” post going as deep under the surface 🔥😂
I'm in Level 10. Does that mean I'll sink, Patryk 😄? P.S. Where did you get this image from?
I'm somewhere below sea level, in the 'SEO Help' submarine. 😁
You didn't even finish getting halfway and we got to the skull already. I'd probably say level 7 personally.
Well, it's hard to stick to one level, especially in SEO. Patryk Wawok 😂
Couldn't spot "trying to fight AI content in search engines" hahaha
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