More blogs from Diane Kulseth
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Search Engine Optimization
Entity authority: Build the signals answer engines use to identify and trust your brandYour brand looks sharp in a blog post, glows in a case study, and then vanishes completely the moment someone asks ChatGPT, Google's AI Overview, or any of the other AI search engines that have quietl...
By Diane Kulseth
Sep 17, 2026
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Content Strategy
Building topical authority: depth, coverage, and cluster designEnterprise topical authority compounds: Each piece of content you publish either strengthens your domain's credibility on a subject or dilutes it, and most enterprise teams are hemorrhaging credibilit...
By Diane Kulseth
Sep 15, 2026
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Search Engine Optimization
Technical readiness for AI crawlers: Schema, structured data, and discoverability infrastructureAI crawlers are the least forgiving readers your content will ever have. Google's bots used to give you some benefit of the doubt. With decent internal linking and solid keyword density, a crawler wou...
By Diane Kulseth
Sep 09, 2026
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Search Engine Optimization
What schema can and can't do for AI search visibilityA reliable AI retrieval system depends on a schema that integrates entity recognition, grounding, disambiguation, ontology design, and user intent into a single retrieval framework. For mid-to-large e...
By Diane Kulseth
Sep 01, 2026
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Search Engine Optimization
Answer engine optimization for retail and e-commerce: Product recommendations, brand representation, and revenue at riskMost ecommerce teams assume AEO is a rebranded SEO checklist: new keywords and new schema, but the same playbook. That framing is a trap. When a shopper asks an AI assistant for a product recommendati...
By Diane Kulseth
Aug 25, 2026
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Search Engine Optimization
Answer engine optimization in higher education: How AI search is reshaping the prospective student journeyWhen responding to questions, answer engines decide whether your university gets mentioned at all, and that decision comes down to structure and clarity: how cleanly a page is marked up, how logically...
By Diane Kulseth
Aug 12, 2026
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Content Governance
Answer engine content governance for regulated industries: When AI gets your brand wrong, who is accountable?Regulated organizations have spent years building content governance infrastructure (e.g., legal review workflows, audit trails, and publishing controls). And almost none of it covers what answer engi...
By Diane Kulseth
Aug 06, 2026
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Search Engine Optimization
Cross-functional alignment for AEO: Connecting SEO, content, brand, and digital teamsMost enterprise AEO programs stall before anyone writes a single word of optimized content. The visibility gap gets spotted by one team, escalated to another, and promptly lands in no-man's land — whe...
By Diane Kulseth
Aug 04, 2026
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Technical SEO
Technical SEO during migrations: Architecture, redirects, and risk controlMost site migrations go wrong before a single URL changes. Teams spend months on design and development, then treat SEO as a final checklist item. By the time anyone asks about redirects or crawl stru...
By Diane Kulseth
Jul 27, 2026
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Technical SEO
Technical and structural signals that support authorityEvery enterprise content program eventually runs into the same problem. Teams publish well-researched articles, build out topic clusters, and invest in editorial quality. Yet, rankings stall and organ...
By Diane Kulseth
Jul 20, 2026
Diane Kulseth
With over a decade of digital marketing experience, Diane Kulseth is the Manager for Digital Marketing Consulting at Siteimprove. She leads the Digital Marketing Consulting team in providing services to Siteimprove's customers in SEO, Analytics, Ads, and Web Performance, diagnosing customer needs and delivering custom training solutions to retain customers and support their digital marketing growth.