How a 3-Person Content Site Broke the SEO Ceiling by Triggering a Social Velocity Surge

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Short version: a small niche site with 120,000 annual visits ran a 60-day social velocity experiment and saw dramatic ranking changes that coincided with an algorithm recalibration in the wild