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Thanks for sharing this! Here’s a bit from the article:
Marketers have long used what are essentially filler webpages to try to get the attention of search engine algorithms — but as the web has changed, so too have the efforts to try to manipulate it.
AI-powered search has put the search engine optimization (SEO) industry through the wringer. Google has added more and more AI-generated content to search results, effectively summarizing the web instead of its tradition of linking and ranking sites. In the AI era, the content that gets surfaced the most isn’t necessarily from big websites, but rather a grab bag of blogs, news articles, and highly specific Reddit threads. Some users are searching elsewhere, using chatbots like ChatGPT and Claude to find things they had used traditional search for. For some publishers and brands, Google traffic has been on such a steady decline that it has become an existential threat. Google constantly tweaks its algorithms and introduces updates to how its systems assess content online, keeping the SEO industry on its toes, but AI represents a new era ripe for disruption — or growth and profit.
SEO firms are entering the space promising clients they’ll get chatbots to mention their brand. New tactics, like the self-serving listicles, are becoming trends (AI SEO firms are, unsurprisingly, also publishing lists ranking themselves as the best option). The SEO industry has always operated amid ambiguity, testing hypotheses, chasing down hints, and arguing over what works and what doesn’t. But AI has created a whole new set of questions, and new openings for spammers, snake oil salesmen, and well-meaning but misinformed practitioners.
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