Leverable SEO

Interesting comments from Danny Sullivan at WordCamp Portland about GEO being not so different than SEO.

"Any good SEO is largely having great content for people."

Google once again shoots down the idea of GEO being different than SEO... Great segment from Danny about this at 29:58 in the video.

From Danny: "Good SEO is good GEO, or AEO, AI SEO, LLM SEO, or LMNOPEO. What you've been doing for search engines generally is still perfectly fine and the things you should be doing." and "People will tell you have to make sure you have this vector thingy that's doing the passage thingy, and it's just like uhhhhh..."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZF_sxLdfTbY&t=1798s

Check out the benefits of hiring an SEO consultant: real focus, lower costs, and sweet results.

https://leverable.com/seo-consultant-benefits/

Recognize any of these symptoms from your own experience?:

"Our SEO agency keeps sending recommendations, but we just don't have the resources or even fully grasp their impact."

"Our internal SEO team constantly asks for features that our platform simply cannot support."

"The brand president doesn't believe our audience engages with the type of content our SEO team suggests."

"We asked for an SEO review on our staging site, and now our launch is delayed."

https://www.chris-green.net/post/what-are-the-perfect-conditions-to-fail-at-seo

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Struggling to find the "i" in "cat".

AI-generated content may now earn a Lowest rating.

https://searchengineland.com/google-quality-raters-content-ai-generated-454161

Google quality raters now assess whether content is AI-generated Automated or AI-generated content may now earn a Lowest rating. Here’s what else changed in the latest quality rater guidelines update.

"It’s the early 2000s again, but instead of optimizing for search engines, we’re optimizing for LLMs too now. And the fundamentals haven’t changed."

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This is crazy!

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