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2025 Reflection

Scoring my 2025 predictions

Growth Intelligence Brief #11

10 SEO, marketing, and tech predictions for 2026

The Alpha is not LLM monitoring

Growth Intelligence Brief #10

Selling AI search strategies to leadership is about risk

Budget SEO for capacity, not output

LLM traffic is shrinking

AI is breaking the economics of content

Growth Intelligence Brief #9

The impact of AI Mode on SEO - analysis of 10 studies

Google’s AI Mode SEO Impact | AI Mode User Behavior Study Part 2

What Our AI Mode User Behavior Study Reveals about the Future of Search

How AI Really Weighs Your Links (Analysis of 35,000 datapoints)

Growth Intelligence Brief #8

Making SEO Personas Actionable Across Teams

Personas are critical for AI search

Trust Still Lives in Blue Links

Internal Linking Grows Up: Evolving from Link Juice to Entity Maps

Growth Intelligence Brief #7

ChatGPT vs Google at Every Stage of the User Journey

Standby as Google cannibalizes itself (while also devouring all of us)

Growth Intelligence Brief #6

Is AI cutting into your SEO conversions?

Google E-commerce SERP Features 2025 vs 2024

Growth Intelligence Brief #5

AI Halftime Report H1 2025

Operationalizing your topic-first SEO strategy

Topic-first SEO: The smarter way to scale authority

Growth Intelligence Brief #4

How you can track Brand Authority for AI Search

Keywords are dead. But the Keyword Universe Isn’t.

Growth Intelligence Brief #3

Query fan-out

The New Normal

Growth Intelligence Brief #2

3 examples of product-led SEO

Effective Marketplace SEO is more like Product Growth

Exclusive: Topical Authority Scorer

Deep Dive: International SEO in the times of AI

How to measure topical authority [in 2025]

AIO usability study - bonus data, tactics, slides

The first-ever UX Study of Google’s AI Overviews: The Data We've All Been Waiting For

Marketplace Deep Dive - Q2

Testing Google's Post-AIO Traffic Claims

The Data Behind Google's AI Overviews: What Sundar Pichai Won't Tell You

Growth Intelligence Brief - #1

How is answer engine optimization different from SEO?

How I edit AI content

E-commerce Deep Dive, Q2 2025 (case study: Stitch Fix)

Humans are better at writing than AI in these tasks

March news

An AI-powered workflow to solve content cannibalization

Checking in: where are we with the Google lawsuits?

How should you structure a Growth team in 2025? (Reader question)

What content works well in LLMs?

SaaS Deep Dive - Q1 2025 (case study: Zapier)

Deep SEO

CheggMate

February '25 trends and news roundup

The State of AI Chatbots and SEO

The impact of AI Overviews on SEO - analysis of 19 studies

Marketplace Deep Dive - Q1 (Case Study: Zillow)

Live Session recap - 1/31/25

Transactional AI traffic - a study of over 7 million sessions

Death of the keyword

Advertising dependency

How to accelerate your SEO career

E-commerce Deep Dive, Q1 2025

Why I recommend my clients to expand from SEO to Youtube

2025 predictions and 2024 review