Parasitic SEO: What It Is, Why It Works, and Why You Shouldn't Do It
Parasitic SEO exploits high-authority domains to rank content that wouldn't rank on its own. It works — until it doesn't. Here's why legitimate businesses should avoid it.
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Amelia S. Gagne
CEO and co-founder of Kief Studio. Full-stack developer and strategist. Perplexity AI Business Fellow. In tech since 2012.
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The Sticker Price Is the Smallest Line Item in Technology Adoption
License cost is the smallest line item. Implementation, integration work, training, ongoing maintenance, and the staff hours required to operate at scale typically run two to five times the sticker price.
Institutional Memory That Survives Turnover
Individual knowledge management tools are well-solved. The organizational equivalent — institutional memory that survives turnover and scales with headcount — is harder to build and more valuable.
Core Web Vitals: The Practical Fixes That Actually Move the Needle
Most Core Web Vitals advice tells you what the metrics are. This post tells you how to fix them — with the specific changes that produce the biggest improvements for the least effort.
What Supply Chain Attacks Actually Are (And Why Your Dependencies Are the Risk)
The 2020 SolarWinds breach compromised 18,000 organizations. The attack didn't come through a phishing email or a weak password — it came through a software update. That's a supply chain attack.
SEO Misconceptions That Are Costing You Money in 2026
Most of what people believe about SEO is either outdated or was never true. Here are the misconceptions I see most often — and what actually works.
The Gap Between What a Tool Can Do and What Your Team Can Operate
Recommending infrastructure that requires dedicated engineering to maintain — to a team with none — isn't a recommendation. It's a liability with a polished interface. The gap between capability and operability is where implementations die.
The Real Cost of Context-Switching
Gerald Weinberg's research shows that switching between two projects costs 20% of productive capacity to each. Three projects: 40%. Founders run eight simultaneously and wonder why nothing ships.
The Case for Self-Hosted Infrastructure in 2026
We run our own servers, our own git, our own identity provider, our own monitoring. Not because we're paranoid — because the math works out and the control matters.
Why I Study Consumer Behavior as a CEO (And What It Actually Changes)
I have credentials in marketing psychology, consumer behavior, and positive psychology. Not because I wanted to be a therapist — because I wanted to understand why people do what they do.
Content Clusters and Pillar Pages: How to Build Topical Authority That Compounds
A single blog post ranks for a keyword. A content cluster ranks for an entire topic. The difference is architectural, and the compounding effect is dramatic.
When to Fire a Client
The clients who consume the most capacity rarely produce the most revenue. The math on who stays is straightforward. The conversation is harder.