/seo-growth — first-party SEO growth method

Core principle: the right move depends on whether you have data yet, and most bad SEO advice is given to the wrong one of those two situations. A site with no rankings and a site with a breadwinner page need opposite behavior. Advice that ignores which you are in is how efforts stall despite consistent output.

Distilled from two content properties run in production and the Search Console reads that produced each rule. This is a first-party method: narrower than a general playbook, and more trustworthy for it. Every rule traces to the failure or result behind it in references/why-these-rules.md. Absolute traffic figures are withheld; the ratios and thresholds are as observed.

The two playbooks