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The Trial of Traditional SEO

December 15, 2025

Arguing that GEO is "just SEO" because both involve structured content is like arguing soccer is "just basketball" because both involve a ball.

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Tags GEO, AI Visibility, Traditional SEO, AI Search, SEO

GTM Teams Still Can't Answer the Most Basic Question

November 26, 2025

Most GTM stacks are a loose federation: dozens of tools, partial APIs, data living in silos, and every team working off a slightly different picture of reality. Until teams unify internal data with external buyer signals, the entire system is guessing.

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Tags AI Search, GTM integration, AI Discovery, RevOps Data, Marketing Attribution

Atomic Content: How to Make Your Pages Citable in AI Search

November 3, 2025

A content atom is the smallest, self-contained unit a model can cleanly cite. One concept, one claim, one answer per URL. Most sites ship sprawling pages with no internal structure; atomic content removes the guesswork by making each claim independently extractable.

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Tags AI Search, GEO, Structured Data, Atomic Content, AI Citations

The Discovery Wars: Why AI Answers Are Replacing Search

October 21, 2025

AI answers are where shortlists form. If you want the buyer, win the mention. The Discovery Wars will be won by those who understand that what matters now is whether the models know you exist when the buyer asks.

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Tags AI Search, Brand Discovery, GEO, ChatGPT, Branded Search

How B2B Buyers Build Shortlists: GEO For AI Overviews, ChatGPT, And Perplexity

October 9, 2025

A procurement manager opens ChatGPT: “SOC 2 compliant tools with Okta SSO, US-only data residency, under $80 per user.” Thirty seconds later she has five vendor names with links. Maybe she clicks one or two. Maybe she just screenshots the list and closes the tab. Three days later she types your brand name directly into Google. By Thursday she's on a demo. You never saw the referral from ChatGPT, but that's where she built her shortlist.

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Tags GEO, AI Search, AI Visibility, ChatGPT, B2B

The Dark Traffic Effect: Measuring Invisible Demand from AI Answers

October 4, 2025

A growing share of everyday decisions will begin in an AI chat box and end without a referral click, so your job is to be present inside the summaries people trust and to account for the lift that presence creates in exposure, in recall, and, ultimately, in pipeline. 

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Tags Dark Traffic, AI Search, GEO, SEO, AI Visibility

The Web Is Disappearing: What Google's Court Admission Reveals About AI Search

September 13, 2025

The web we knew it is gone, and it’s time to build for what's actually emerging: a post-search world where discovery happens through conversation, where dark traffic carries your best customers, and where the entire middle layer of the internet gets compressed into AI responses.

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Tags AI, AI Search, SEO, GEO, Dark Traffic

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How B2B Buyers Build Shortlists: GEO For AI Overviews, ChatGPT, And Perplexity
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The Dark Traffic Effect: Measuring Invisible Demand from AI Answers
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When the Flame Stays Lit
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The Web Is Disappearing: What Google's Court Admission Reveals About AI Search
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