SEO Rockstars 2026SEO Rockstars

Replay Guide

Browse 16 sessions from SEO Rockstars New Orleans 2026, spanning AI visibility, local SEO, paid search, link building, automation, and agency growth.

1. 01

   Eldar Cohen

   Ranking in LLM, GEO, & the New Search Reality

   Improve visibility in AI answers with clearer service pages, verifiable facts, citations, and outside mentions. Includes ways to measure AI visibility without personalization skew and plan AI work before implementation.

2. 02

   Jeremy Burgos

   The AI Growth Playbook: 5 Habits of Businesses Winning With AI

   A five-step growth system—capture, nurture, close, evangelize, and reactivate—plus HighLevel AI tools for lead responses, appointments, reviews, and follow-up that convert more of the leads a business already has.

3. 03

   Zach DeLorenzo

   The Client Machine I Wish I’d Built Sooner

   Build a multi-seven-figure agency through Upwork, Meta ads, and cold outreach, then address churn and delivery problems with better client qualification, stronger offers, enterprise outreach, and revenue forecasting.

4. 04

   Rabih Rizk

   Using AI Out of the Box

   How AI agents are changing agency services, with practical ways to make websites accessible to agents and build repeatable workflows with business context, approval steps, and quality checks.

5. 05

   Brian Costello

   SEO From First Principles: Testing, Certificate Transparency, and Browser Automation

   Apply computer science and single-variable tests to SEO experiments. Covers certificate transparency for discovery, automated link workflows, and browser or profile experiments around engagement and CTR.

6. 06

   Terry Samuels

   Your Website Has a New Audience: AI Agents

   Follow an AI-assisted customer journey from the first question to an appointment request. Spot conflicting service areas, vague warranties, misleading booking buttons, and broken follow-up that can keep a business from being selected.

7. 07

   Dimitry Morgan

   Stop Paying for Clicks That Don’t Convert: 5 Google Ads Fixes That Actually Move the Needle

   Fix conversion tracking, analyze search terms with n-grams, diagnose performance, test ad copy, and control placements and Performance Max—with a focus on measuring actual new customers and qualified leads.

8. 08

   Mar Zano

   Real Conversations Lead the Way

   Build local forums with AI-generated conversations, scheduled feeds, and locally relevant personas to support brand mentions, directories, links, and local rankings, alongside relevant community links.

9. 09

   Bradley Benner

   AI for Agency Operations

   Integrate AI into agency workflows without coding using custom skills, organized context, and shared business knowledge. Covers preserving decision reasoning and grounding content in client interviews and firsthand expertise.

10. 10

    Brian Winum

    LLM Authority Hacking & Stacking

    Combine authorship, third-party proof, structured data, and content to build search and AI authority. Covers discoverable supplemental files, content ownership and revision records, and Common Crawl inclusion.

11. 11

    Brian Kato

    Eight Graphs, One Ranking

    A framework connecting links, entities, topics, behavior, identity, reviews, trust, and citations. Explains how related signals work together for rankings and AI retrieval.

12. 12

    Dr. Orly Amor

    How to Close the Deal 98% of the Time Through Profiling

    Read prospects’ communication styles with DISC profiling and adapt sales conversations. Also covers rational and emotional ego states and ways to reduce tension.

13. 13

    Dan Kurtz

    Making Monsters

    Eleven AI systems for agency operations and marketing, including connected business databases, improving skills, PR outreach, content and sales coaching, and funnels. The throughline is connecting real data to repeatable processes and feedback loops.

14. 14

    Jose Ponce

    When #1 Isn’t the Answer

    Why visibility alone is not enough: connect buyer psychology and StoryBrand with clear business information, credible proof, and next steps. Distinguishes being cited, recommended, and actually chosen.

15. 15

    Clint Butler

    Mission: Authority

    Plan content hubs that convert through audience research, content audits, competitor gaps, internal links, and schema. Also challenges repackaging established SEO practices under new terminology.

16. 16

    Michael Merlino

    I’ve Been Telling Y’all

    Build a recognizable brand around who you are, what you do, and where you do it. Covers distributing service and PAA content across video, images, podcasts, social channels, and Google Business Profiles, supported by AI agents and persistent memory.