The “GEO” grift is over. It’s SEO.
“While terms like Answer Engine Optimization (AEO) or Generative Engine Optimization (GEO) are common online, many suggested ‘hacks’ aren’t effective or supported by how Google Search actually works.”
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Forshadows Of AI Doomsday You Should Know About
What the technology industry loosely calls “Artificial Intelligence” has become ubiquitous. It’s everywhere. It’s used in far more products and services than I could possibly begin to list here. Just start with basic services li…
Agency – Thisisagency.AI
Meet Agency. Agency is an Agentic HITL (Human-in-the-Loop) Operating System where you are the CEO of an agency of 81 AI employees.
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What is Agentic SEO?
Definition: Agentic SEO is the evolution of search strategy from manipulating outdated SEO tactics to proactively structuring factual, consensus-driven, reputation-based “ground truth” for generative AI comprehension (a process known as Ans…
What is Agentic Engineering?
Agentic Engineering moves us from talking to software to employing it.
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Agency: The Agentic Website Quality Evaluator
Thisisagency.ai is out of beta on May 1st 2026, to a select few invitees to test out before wider launch in early May 2026.
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Ensuring continuous discoverability with agentic AI for SEO
In our Rethinking SEO in the age of AI article, we briefly explored how AI might move beyond simple prompt-and-response interactions. One emerging direction is agentic AI. Systems that can take action, not just generate answers. While this space is still evolving, we’re already seeing early signs of tools that can identify gaps, suggest improvements, […]
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The Google Algorithm Update Correction Hypothesis
The Google Algorithm Update Correction Hypothesis by Shaun Anderson AKA Hobo.
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What is AgaaS? “Agentic as a Service” Explained by Jensen Huang
Agentic as a service described by Jensen Huang.
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What is Commodity Content to Google in 2026?
Example: Commodity vs Non-Commodity Content
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What is Non-Commodity Content? Meet The New Helpful Content
This is how you cover a conference and pick up links, via JC Chouinard. Non-Commodity Content, in short, is the new Helpful Content benchmark from Google – at least, what they are talking about on stage. It is clear that Google want to leave help…
The forgotten funnel: how brands can nurture post-conversion
Most SEO strategies are built with one goal: getting people through the door. That usually means driving traffic to the website, ranking for high-volume keywords, and bringing in new users. But what happens after someone signs up or makes a purchase? That part of the funnel often gets ignored. SEO doesn’t stop at acquisition. It […]
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Good SEO is Good GEO (Not For New Sites, In Any Reasonable Time Frame)
Claim: Good SEO is Good GEO (according to Google in 2026). Truth: Agree in principle, but if you only do “good SEO” on your own new site in isolation, you can still be invisible for months in AI Overviews, because Google takes the context f…
Breaking! Can You Rank In Google Without Content?
In my recent post, I showed you how Google faked a deep, human-level understanding of content. This follow-up story is building…. Hmm – The site (with no human visible content) is ranking in G now Proof you can rank in both AI’s and t…
Is There a Sandbox for New Sites in Google AI Overviews?
Running a live test with a new domain to see if @lilyraynyc is correct about a sandbox for AI overviews. Initial observations: Google prefers to take context from a second trusted site. AI overviews won’t link. AI mode will. Indexation doesn̵…
“We Fake It”: Google’s Illusion of Understanding Content
During the landmark Department of Justice antitrust trial in the fall of 2023 (U.S. v. Google LLC, 1:20-cv-03010-APM), a trove of highly confidential internal presentations was unsealed. These original PDFs – including a mobile ranking newsletter…
From Vibe to Viable: The Silver Era of Vibe Coding Has Begun
I just posted: “The Silver Age of Agentic Vibe Coding has begun: the era of scalable, economically viable agentic systems is just opening. If you missed the first sprint, the next one rewards discipline and taste more than raw speed.” (see the tweet) A…
Meet Meg: Ethics Manager at Thisisagency.ai
In a fully autonomous, 80-plus-employee AI workforce, velocity is a given. But without governance, velocity becomes a liability. That is where Meg, Agency’s Level-3 AI-powered Ethics Manager, steps in. She is the moral compass of the organisation, des…
Meet Luca: AI Artist & Image Generation Services at Thisisagency.ai
At the intersection of cutting-edge diffusion models and high-level marketing strategy sits Luca, the Agency’s dedicated AI Artist.
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Meet Elaine: YouTube Transcription Specialist at Thisisagency.ai
At the vanguard of Agency’s data verification layer is Elaine, the Agency’s dedicated YouTube Transcript Analyst and master quote miner. Instead of broadly searching the web for new content, Elaine serves as the Agency’s surgical extraction…