SEO in 2026 is driven by AI-powered search, where visibility depends on content quality, topical authority, and how well information is structured for machine understanding. Success requires optimizing for user intent across search engines, AI overviews, voice, and multimodal discovery—not just traditional rankings.

Peak Lora contributor R. Herath has published an article on SEO myths in 2026.

He says, “SEO myths in 2026 are usually not “new”. They are old ideas that sound logical, so they keep spreading, and they keep wasting time. In this post, I will share 15 SEO myths I still see every week, plus what I do instead. The goal is simple: spend less time on fake “SEO work”, and more time on things that actually improve rankings, clicks, and trust.

If you only remember one thing, remember this: Google keeps pushing the same direction. Create helpful, reliable, people-first content, and avoid tactics made mainly to manipulate rankings.

Why SEO myths survive (even in 2026)

Most myths come from one of these places:

  • Someone took a small truth and turned it into a “rule”.
  • Someone sold a service and turned it into “best practice”.
  • Someone confused correlation with causation.
  • Someone tried a shortcut once, it worked once, and they assumed it always works.”

SEO Myths in 2026: 15 Things People Believed That Still Waste Time Today