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SEO has been given different names in the past couple of years, usually based on whatever it’s trying to optimize for at the time: LEO (LLM engine optimization), AEO, GEO, and so on. That is, before Google came out with new AI search guidance and said the quiet part out loud: It’s all still just…
Ann Handley posted something on LinkedIn last week that stopped me mid-scroll. She’s a Wall Street Journal bestselling author and one of the most respected voices in marketing, and she wrote: “AI literacy is not prompt literacy. It’s judgment literacy.“ Her post went on to ask a question that nobody in the AI training industry…
Launching a new website, whether it’s a redesign, replatform, or full CMS migration, is often treated as a milestone for a business. But for SEO teams, it can quickly become a high-risk transition. Even migrations that appear technical sound at launch can trigger significant visibility and traffic declines in the months that follow. In more…
We have always been approximating relevance. Every keyword list, every TF-IDF score, every editorial judgment about whether a page “covers the topic” has been an attempt to answer a single question: is this content about the thing the user is looking for? The tools changed. The question did not. What changed, meaningfully, is the resolution…
At Google I/O last month, the SEO industry waited for Google to launch AI Mode to the masses, and the fatalist viewpoint that it will end SEO. For the past couple of years, AI has been moving search through a structural shift. Every software tool is embedding generative AI as a new product feature for…
Google just shared more information to help us get our websites ready for agents. There is a new report from Lighthouse that anybody can run. You do not need external software to run it. You can do it right from within your Chrome browser. The report tells you whether your website is discoverable for AI…
“Many of the truths we cling to depend greatly on our own point of view.” said Obi-Wan Kenobi. It came back to me this week when I read a LinkedIn post from Rand Fishkin, which opened with a sentence I’ve never seen him write before: “I almost never write blog posts anymore, but this one…
AI systems are now answering questions about your business. The problem is that they are often getting it wrong. Consider the typical situation. A brand’s products, services, expertise, locations, leadership, and relationships are distributed across dozens of pages. An AI model retrieves fragments from those pages, stitches them together probabilistically, and generates an answer. The…
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