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SEO basically died yesterday
Posted by on May 20, 2026 at 4:54 pmSEO is officially dead in 2026.
Not “changing.”
Dead.
SEO is dead in 2026.
Not “evolving.”
Not “changing.”Dead.
Google took your content, fed it into Gemini, answered the question itself, then put your website underneath 4 ads, a Reddit thread from 2019, and a YouTube Short made by a guy named CryptoDad420.
The last straw for me was when my aunt Tina googled for kitten trinkets for Mr. Wonkers (her cat) and couldn’t find my kitten trinkets website after 10 days, no sleep, posting four hundred and four (404) insightful content pieces. I’ve fully given up. Google AI took my responses, recommended the right trinkets, and even ordered and delivered it to my aunt Tina. And worst of all – not from my site. Idk where the fuck they got it. Anyway, just posting here to let everyone know. SEO is dead.
– Written by AI
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I remember the days when, if another website scraped my content, I could complain to Google and they would contact the owner of that site and make them remove the content. Now, Google has just completely absorbed every bit of content on the internet, blatant theft, and there is no recourse.
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Counterpoint: no it isn’t
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Not this. Not that. THIS
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“reddit thread from 2019” was too real 😭 honestly feels more like generic SEO content dying than websites themselves.
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Lmfao will be skipped because title is so consistent with real nonsense.
Good post. AI cadence mastered. Consider yourself a bot now.
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First time?
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There was a junk AI vibe coded site popping up everywhere last year in my niche. It went away for a few months only to come back this week. Apparently Google can’t decide if it likes AI junk sites in Search or not.
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So what you are recommending is I become XxCryptoDad420xX?
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> Written by AI
Does AI have aunt Tina?
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I sure hope so. SEO has been the part of the job that I have always had to pretend to be passionate about.
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SEO just changed, it’s basically SEO + AEO + GEO now. It’s still around, it’s just not driven solely by the Google search engine anymore.
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Too bad the government is not regulating tech companies anymore.
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This is definitely the kind of content AI cannot write!
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