SEO Strategy Diagnostic Tool

Is your SEO ready for 2026?

Use the tool below to evaluate your current approach to optimization.

The SEO Strategy Diagnostic

The SEO Strategy Diagnostic

Answer five questions in a few minutes. Get a total score, a clear result, and a practical next step.

1. Content Philosophy

What is the primary purpose of your content strategy?

2. Source of Value

Where does the expertise in your content come from?

3. Team Role

How do your writers or subject-matter experts contribute to the process?

4. Perspective on Algorithm Updates

How does your team typically respond to Google updates?

5. Key Metric

What metric best defines success for your content program?

Clears your selections and hides the results.

Your Result

How scoring works

Total possible score is 25 points.

5 to 11: Efficiency-Focused Strategy

12 to 19: Balanced Growth Strategy

20 to 25: Expertise-Led Strategy

Do You Lean Heavily on Pattern-Compliant SEO?

There’s a new (old) idea floating around:

“Writers don’t need to be experts: just use AI to generate text and follow the SEO pattern.”

That’s not strategy.
That’s pattern-compliant SEO.

And when everyone follows the same pattern, differentiation disappears.

The short-term reward is visibility.
The long-term result is invisibility.

Real authority comes from insight, not imitation.
Know something worth saying, then structure it better than anyone else.

Think-First AI workflows solve this problem. Read more about it here.