a builder's codex
codex · operators · Aleyda Solis

Aleyda Solis

Bio

Aleyda Solis is the most systematic thinker in international SEO, having built her career around the intersection of technical SEO rigor and multi-market expansion strategy.

Operating themes

Cards

Sources captured

Insights · 13

Tier A · seo · aeo
Point-in-time AEO citation counts are noise: 74 percent of cited sources rotate weekly
Tier A · growth · pmm
Measure AI search on three layers: Presence, Readiness, Business Impact
Tier A · aeo · seo
AI search visibility is an off-site corroboration problem with an on-site quality floor, not the inverse
Tier B · aeo · seo
More AI answer links do not automatically mean more traffic; track six AEO signals separately, not blended into one score
Tier B · growth-demand · content
In the AI-search era, crawlability shapes everything
Tier B · aeo · seo
AI search is a 3rd-party citation problem: external domains supply over 80 percent of citations while owned pages corroborate
Tier B · aeo · seo
The pages AI engines cite and the pages that receive AI referral traffic are structurally different assets requiring separate optimization
Tier B · aeo-llm-search · seo
Content that survives a brand-swap test is commodity content and becomes Google's primary enforcement target at scale
Tier B · aeo-llm-search · seo
AI search investment requires scoring content across six independent dimensions, not a traffic forecast alone
Tier B · seo · aeo
Ecommerce YOY organic traffic drops despite stable ranking positions diagnose SERP layout displacement, not ranking failure
Tier B · aeo · seo
Third-party sources generate 84 to 93 percent of AI citation weight for SaaS brands across platforms
Tier B · aeo · seo
Six criteria for deciding which third-party platforms are worth investing in for AI search citations
Tier B · seo · aeo
Google's May 2026 Core Update rewarded source type fit over authority alone, concentrating visibility around canonical destinations for each query's dominant intent
Open the interactive profile → linkedin · website