Growth Strategies and Metrics For the AI Era

GEO, short for Generative Engine Optimization (also known as AEO or LLMO), is about getting your brand noticed—and accurately represented—in AI-generated answers. That includes results from Google’s AI Overviews, and AI assistants like ChatGPT, and Gemini. The goal is to make sure your brand shows up when AI tools answer user questions, even if no…

How to Rank on Instagram and Google

This week, I searched for a lip balm and found that two of the suggested posts were from Instagram. And it’s not a fluke: Instagram is actively working toward not just improving its internal search, but also indexing your Instagram posts so they show up on search engines like Google. The line between traditional search…

Disenchanted | Seth’s Blog

Where does hope come from? It’s probably hard-wired, the result of an evolutionary process. A creature with hope is less likely to give up and more likely to raise offspring, thus passing down an ability to find resilience in the face of change. Disenchanted has come to mean something different from its original usage. Today,…

How to Detect AI-Generated Content

In April 2025, we analyzed 900,000 newly created web pages and discovered that 74.2% contained AI-generated content. With the rapid growth of generative AI, businesses, educators, and publishers are asking a critical question: how can we tell what’s written by humans and what’s produced by machines? The answer: it’s possible, but not foolproof. Here’s how…