
The Cloudflare AI Bot Blocking Move
A Tempest in a Teapot (And Why Retailers Should Double Down on AI Visibility) Yesterday’s announcement that Cloudflare will block AI crawlers by default across its network sparked a digital stampede of hot takes about the “death of AI training” and the “publisher revolution.” (For some background on this news,

What Has Really Changed? Part 2
What Retailers Must Do in the Era of AI Search In Part 1 of this series, we cut through the hype and made the case that SEO is not dead, it’s evolving. AI-powered platforms like Google AI Overviews, Perplexity, SearchGPT, and Gemini are changing the interface of search, but not

What Has Really Changed? Part 1
Cutting Through the AI Noise in Search Every few years, someone declares SEO is dead. But in 2024, the noise has reached a new level. AI Overviews, ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Google’s AI Mode are shifting the way people search ,and it’s easy to get swept up in the headlines. “Blue

SEO Isn’t Dead – It’s Everywhere: Part 6
Part 6: Stop Majoring in Minors – Focus on What Really Matters At this point, let me address a pitfall I see many businesses (and marketers) falling into: what I call “majoring in minors.” This is when teams spend an inordinate amount of time and energy on trivial or surface-level

SEO Isn’t Dead – It’s Everywhere: Part 5
Part 5: Content Everywhere: Focusing on Practical Visibility Given all we’ve discussed, I advocate a mindset shift: focus on “content penetration” across all discovery channels, rather than just traditional SEO rankings. I use the term content penetration to mean how deeply and widely your content has permeated the platforms and

SEO Isn’t Dead – It’s Everywhere: Part 4
Part 3: New Tactics for an AI-Powered Search Era While the core principles remain, there are indeed new tactics and focus areas emerging. Adapting to an AI-driven search landscape means expanding our toolkit. Here are some of the newer SEO (or dare I say AEO/GEO) tactics that savvy marketers are