How to Set an SEO Strategy for 2026

FREE Webinar #72 | Wednesday, 7th January 2026

How do you plan your SEO strategy for the coming year? Is it best to plan your SEO activities for a whole year or is it more effective to break down your overarching plan into smaller chunks?

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Kelsey Libert, Fractl
Sukhjinder Singh, I Do SEO
Sabine Ljunggren, Maia Marketing
Georgia James, Flaunt Digital

Premieres on Wednesday, 7th January 2026 at: LA: 6am, NY: 9am, London 2pm, Paris 15:00, Delhi 7:30pm.

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Additional Insights | 2025 & 2026

It's our free podcast that delivers fresh weekly expert content, bringing you regular updates from some of the very best in SEO and Digital Marketing.

Combine SEO tactics with data insights to personalise the user journey

Sharon Gwati-Mudzudzu discusses the importance of understanding user intent over traditional keyword strategies.

One Thing Remains Constant in SEO

Martina Kölsch shares that the Panda Update in 2011 was one of the first major changes by Google that she encountered. SEO is continually evolving, yet one thing remains constant: prioritising a solid SEO foundation, a clear structure, and excellent content. Many tend to overlook these essentials whenever a new trend emerges.

Crawling and indexing management needs to be a corner stone of your SEO strategy

James McLoughlin shares that crawling and indexing management needs to be a corner stone of your SEO strategy in 2026, ensuring crawlers (both traditional search engine crawlers and LLM crawlers) can quickly and easily discover, understand and index any content you want surfaced in search engines and LLMs.

Coming next month on Additional Insights - Charlie Clark, Roman Leliukh and Jérôme Salomon

Where to find us - 2026 Conferences

Here is our schedule of confirmed conference appearances, so far, for the start of 2026. If you can join us, we'd love to say, "Hi!"

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The Majestic SEO Podcast : Some of the finest minds in our Industry have been invited to our SEO Podcasts. Discover some recent highlights, below:

• #71 A sneak preview of SEO in 2026
  Emina Demiri-Watson, Jono Alderson, Filipa Serra Gaspar, Anthony Barone
• #70 How does GA4 help to drive SEO strategy?
  Priya Verma, Jonathan Moore, Kyle Rushton McGregor, Dan Taylor
• #69 Thought Leadership and SEO
  Ashley Segura, Christian Rigg, Jasper Hamill, Kelsey Libert, Joe Terry

Check out more Majestic podcasts, hosted by David Bain and Old Guard, New Blood, with Dixon Jones.