BrightonSEO

Dashboards & Reporting

Fewer graphs, better answers: dashboards that get used

San Diego, September 2026

Marketers love a dashboard. One link, every metric, every channel, every campaign — surely this is the one that finally makes the CMO happy?

Sadly, it never works. It's opened twice, they get overwhelmed, and then go back to asking you the same questions in email.

The problem isn't the tool. It's that we're delivering all the data when leadership is asking something much smaller and much harder: is this working?

Should we keep spending? What do I tell the board on Thursday?

In this session, Dana will make the case for building fewer, sharper dashboards that answer the questions your clients are actually asking.

We'll cover:
-Why bigger dashboards make decisions worse, not better
-How to figure out the real questions behind "can you send me a report?"
-What your next reporting build should look like

You'll leave knowing how to build dashboards your stakeholders actually use, instead of ones they politely ignore.

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brightonSEO Track 3, San Diego Convention Center

Tue 15 Sep, 2026 | 01:55 PM

AI ate my traffic (should I care?)

San Diego, September 2026

We'll walk through the measurement maturity curve from traffic counting to revenue attribution, show you how to diagnose whether your "traffic problem" is actually a problem, and give you the framework to prove your real impact to leadership - regardless of what AI does to your sessions.

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brightonSEO Track 3, San Diego Convention Center

Tue 15 Sep, 2026 | 01:55 PM

Why reputation is the new ROI

San Diego, September 2026

Organic has spent years proving its value through rankings, links and traffic. But in an unrestricted search landscape, the brands that win are the ones people and platforms trust enough to surface, cite and recommend.

Hannah explores why reputation is becoming one of the most valuable outcomes organic can build - shaped by what’s said about you, who says it, where it appears and how consistently your brand shows up across the topics you want to own.

From earned media and reviews to creators, communities and social content, she’ll show the signals that need to work together to build topical authority, trust and visibility - and why that matters more than ever as AI increasingly uses fan-out queries to explore a wider digital ecosystem.

3 Key Takeaways:
1. Ranking for a query isn’t enough. You need to own the topic. Why topical authority matters more as search and AI fan-out queries to use a wider set of questions, sources and signals
2. How earned media, social, creators, reviews and community combine to reinforce E-E-A-T and shape whether people and platforms see your brand as credible
3. Coverage is an output. Reputation is the outcome. How to measure whether organic activity is actually increasing authority, visibility, trust and likelihood to be recommended.

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brightonSEO Track 3, San Diego Convention Center

Tue 15 Sep, 2026 | 01:55 PM