Aditya KathotiaAuthor

Aditya Kathotia

Founder & CEO - Nico Digital

Aditya writes in-depth articles on SEO, digital marketing, ecommerce growth, and brand authority for the Nico Digital blog.

Should You Block GPTBot, ClaudeBot, and PerplexityBot?Technical SEO
2026-05-08

Should You Block GPTBot, ClaudeBot, and PerplexityBot?

Blocking AI crawlers can quietly cut your visibility in ChatGPT and Perplexity. Letting them all in raises real questions about training, attribution, and revenue. Here is the decision framework most teams skip.

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Google Discover SEO: How to Win the Mobile FeedTechnical SEO
2026-05-07

Google Discover SEO: How to Win the Mobile Feed

Google Discover is the largest mobile traffic channel most SEO teams ignore. Here is the technical and editorial playbook we use to get client sites surfaced in the feed, including image specs, content patterns, and the E-E-A-T threshold that separates publishers Google pushes from publishers Google buries.

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When Performance Max works for ecommerce - and when it doesn'tPerformance Marketing
2026-05-06

When Performance Max works for ecommerce - and when it doesn't

Performance Max is the campaign type ecommerce founders love to hate. The honest answer is that it works brilliantly for some accounts and bleeds money for others, and the difference is predictable. Here is the decision framework we use to decide whether a brand should lean in, throttle back, or switch off Performance Max entirely - and the migration path when the answer is the third one.

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The 5-Minute Lead Response Rule: B2B Routing PlaybookPerformance Marketing
2026-05-05

The 5-Minute Lead Response Rule: B2B Routing Playbook

The B2B funnel does not break at the click. It breaks 47 minutes later, when the lead that paid 380 dollars to acquire is still sitting in a CRM queue waiting for a human. Here is the routing, coverage, sequencing, and measurement system we install to compress lead response time below 5 minutes - and why doing so improves close rate more than any landing page change ever will.

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PPC Landing Page Audit: 14 Conversion Killers Quietly Burning Your Ad Budget (and the Fixes That Cut CAC by 30 Percent)Performance Marketing
2026-05-04

PPC Landing Page Audit: 14 Conversion Killers Quietly Burning Your Ad Budget (and the Fixes That Cut CAC by 30 Percent)

Most paid-media accounts that look 'broken' are not bidding wrong, targeting wrong, or under-budgeted. They are sending qualified clicks into a leaking landing page. Here is the 14-point audit we run on Google Ads, Meta, and ecommerce PPC accounts to recover the conversion rate the landing page has been costing you.

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Keyword Cannibalization Audit: How to Diagnose and Fix the Internal Competition Quietly Eating Your RankingsTechnical SEO
2026-05-03

Keyword Cannibalization Audit: How to Diagnose and Fix the Internal Competition Quietly Eating Your Rankings

Most sites that plateau in organic growth are not under-publishing. They are competing with themselves. Here is the keyword cannibalization audit we run on client sites to find the duplicate ranking attempts, decide which page should win each query, and recover the rankings the internal competition has been costing you.

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How to Diagnose a Google Search Console Traffic Drop: A Decision Tree for SEO TeamsTechnical SEO
2026-05-02

How to Diagnose a Google Search Console Traffic Drop: A Decision Tree for SEO Teams

When organic traffic drops in Google Search Console, most teams jump to the wrong conclusion within hours and waste two weeks fixing the wrong thing. Here is the decision tree we use on client sites to find the actual cause inside one analyst day.

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The Orphan Page Audit: How to Find and Recover Pages That Stopped Earning You TrafficTechnical SEO
2026-05-01

The Orphan Page Audit: How to Find and Recover Pages That Stopped Earning You Traffic

Most websites bleed traffic from pages that lost their internal links, not from pages that lost their rankings. Here is the seven-step orphan page audit we run on client sites to recover lost equity, fix crawl efficiency, and rescue posts that quietly stopped converting.

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Topical Authority in 2026: How to Build Content Silos That Rank in Google AND Get Cited by AIDigital Marketing
2026-04-30

Topical Authority in 2026: How to Build Content Silos That Rank in Google AND Get Cited by AI

Topical authority is the single biggest ranking lever left in 2026, both for Google and for AI answer engines. Here is the operator's framework we use to design silos, map clusters, and build internal linking architecture that compounds over 12 months.

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Programmatic SEO 2026: How to Build Pages That Rank and ConvertDigital Marketing
2026-04-29

Programmatic SEO 2026: How to Build Pages That Rank and Convert

Programmatic SEO still works in 2026, but only when every templated page clears Google's quality floor. Here is the revenue-focused framework, the page anatomy, and the 90-day rollout we use with B2B and D2C clients.

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SEO Services Cost in India: 2026 Honest Pricing GuideDigital Marketing
2026-04-17

SEO Services Cost in India: 2026 Honest Pricing Guide

What does SEO really cost in India? Honest 2026 breakdown - from ₹10K freelancers to ₹2L agency retainers - so you can evaluate any quote you receive with confidence.

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Is SEO Dead in 2026? What AI Has Actually ChangedDigital Marketing
2026-04-10

Is SEO Dead in 2026? What AI Has Actually Changed

Every year SEO is declared dead. In 2026 with AI Overviews and ChatGPT dominating search, is it finally true? The honest answer from people who track rankings for a living.

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