AI has been public enemy No. 1 for at least two years. As the early wave of excitement wore off, people realized the content we, as SEOs and publishers, had spent years flooding the internet with was being used to make the richest even richer. We cannot deny the open web is changing – AI…
Avinash Kaushik has a gift for puncturing comfortable myths with uncomfortable data, and recently he dismissed a persistent meme that senior leaders pressure their organizations to adopt AI while quietly staying in the 1990s themselves. Notion data, he shared in his post, shows that most senior people, including CEOs, are actually the most advanced AI…
I keep getting the same question from clients and SEOs (GEOs?). “How do we show up in ChatGPT?” The answer is always the same. Write good content, do listicles, comment on Reddit. The usual. But, how do we actually know any of that works? Most of it gets repeated on faith, one expert quoting the…
Kevin Indig’s Growth Memo offers disciplined strategic analysis in the SEO and growth field, and his columns rarely veer from careful, evidence-grounded argument. So, when he stepped outside his usual lane in June 2026 to say, simply, “Stop trying to replace people with AI,” it was more diagnosis than vent. Indig calls the phenomenon “substitution…
Bruce Clay, one of the first generation of search engine optimization experts, has passed away. Much of the terminology that he coined and many of the concepts that he pioneered continue to be used today. Thirty Years Of SEO Clay was among the cohort of SEOs who were learning and applying the art of optimization…
AI agents do not read your website the way you do. They do not see your layout, your hero image, or your brand color. They prefer reading the accessibility tree: a stripped-down structural model of the page, the same one that has powered screen readers for two decades. Today, that matters more because the audience…
A CFO asked her AI assistant to research cloud infrastructure vendors for a major investment. The assistant came back with a careful comparison. It had weighed options, named trade-offs, and confidently recommended one vendor. It was the kind of answer you forward to the team and act on. But she’d forgotten a moment from six…
Google is expanding its Limited Ad Serving policy to cover additional scenarios on Google Search. According to an email sent to advertisers, implementation will begin gradually in June 2026 and continue through 2028. The update introduces new guidance around advertiser qualification, user reports, and advertiser identity. It also includes a recommendation for advertisers to pin…
Everyone is using AI now. And almost everyone is using it the same way. You log into Google Ads, export a report, paste the CSV into ChatGPT or Claude, get an analysis, then repeat the whole process for Meta, Google Analytics 4, and whatever else is on your plate that week. Same painful process, every…
Y Combinator’s motto, “Make something people want,” was never about the product. It was about distribution. Build the thing that finds product-market fit, and the people come. For 20 years, that distribution ran through search engines, social algorithms, paid ads, and word of mouth. All human-mediated channels. That changed. In the past six months, Cloudflare,…