What works.
What ranks.
What earns.
Multi-channel growth tactics for small online publishers — SEO, AI Search, social, paid, and owned audience. Tested across a real portfolio of sites, written up the way I'd actually want to read it.
Live across the portfolio.
Every dot is a city with someone reading one of the five sites in the last 30 minutes. Green is Mappr and RankingHacks; warm orange is PhotoWorkout; blues are SampleShots and AirportRoutes.
Five channels. One playbook each.
Every post on RankingHacks fits into one of these channels. The thesis: a solo publisher in 2026 should pick three of these well, not all five poorly.
- Channel
SEO
Search rankings that still pay in 2026 — schema, internal links, content depth.
Read the playbook → - Channel
AI Search · GEO
Citability for ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, and Google AI Overviews.
Read the playbook → - Channel
Social
Pinterest, Facebook, and the long tail of social referral.
Read the playbook → - Channel
Paid
PPC and paid social for affiliates who actually have margin.
Read the playbook → - Channel
Owned Audience
Newsletter, video, and podcast — audiences that subscribe, not strangers who land.
Read the playbook →
This is the work-in-progress.
The production site at rankinghacks.com still serves the live archive. This beta is where the new editorial system, the channel hubs, and the migrated framework posts come together. When it's ready, the cutover happens at the DNS layer — same URLs, new everything underneath.