Adam J. Humphreys

Do they not have sandboxes anymore?

lol not for investors

Sharks, not so much a fan.

Links aren't irrelevant; crawling is based on them. The sources and their interpreted meaning from the entities have. It boils down to better disclosure and critical thinking from reasoning models. UGC to sources reminds me of early social bookmarking in 07. Now we have PR spam for AI.

It's good in some areas but really bad in a lot of others. The use of garbage sources remains the ongoing issue. I imagine if disclosure rules and the like was actually enforced it would be far more effective.

Class actions and lawyers that enjoy money for themselves first.

They used ChatGPT and found themselves irrelevant?

and it shows haha

To display in AI overviews, you'll want complete answers, but in a succinct format (bulleted and using schema markup, even). Gain a lot of PR for that content from questionable, low-quality PR links (don't do that), and voilà, you have AI overviews. #SEO

People are just going to start lawyering up at this point. Accountability is important. They're arguing in court that plagiarism is ok, well, let's see then.

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CTR would most assuredly be a metric of adoption but their blatant thumbs up or down seems to be an industry average presently. I've no idea how they're collectively mining millions of responses.

Google bombing = prompt bombing lol. I don't advocate for that but it's what some morons are doing. Further, I take issue with all the query running to see where business shows. Google and alternates need a better way to show for this.

This essentially reinforces what I've been saying on last click, last call, hyper-focused content and local review velocity:

43% of AIO link results are incestuous, and when it comes to GBP, only about 30% of your leads are likely to come from your website.

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Worthy of bringing to their attention.

Those enhancements you're adding could be costing your customers money. If it's not enhancing the client experience, it shouldn't be on the roster of implementations.

If I asked it to do the same thing it would probably pancake all the points on a single pixel lol.

Might be a sign they've been hacked.

LOL

The best optimized content isn't always the best content. Interactions of your target audience is ultimately what pays the bills.

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Previously, you could have 1/3 of the competitor review count with well-focused service pages and rank in the top 3 in the map pack. Now, interactions at Google remain the number one ranking factor. This means positive signs of life from last call, last visit, and ongoing positive reviews. #localSEO

Terrible interface. Vote it thumbs down for sure.

I'm not seeing this in Canada yet or AI mode for that matter.

Overthinking isn't very profitable. Whatever you've been thinking a lot about, do it. Swing for the fences. Life is short, and big risks often come with big rewards. If you believe in it enough, others will too.

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Google continues experimenting, but one rule remains constant: focus on the user. If visitors bounce, rankings mean nothing. No matter how polished your local SEO looks, Google will demote or even de-index pages with weak interactions compared to other, better-performing search results.

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Google is violating Canada's C18 with AIO, and they will face legal issues shortly. For the most part, educational content above the fold is self-referencing AIO, and it often includes ads if any space is left. It's a monopoly now; they're setting themselves up for what's to come.