Meta descriptions are mostly low‑ROI busywork today, especially at scale, because Google rarely shows what you write and they only matter after you’re already ranking and getting impressions. 1. Google usually rewrites them Multiple independent studies on live SERPs have found that Google rewrites a large majority of meta descriptions,
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A funfluencer is someone who wants fame but can’t execute on the thing they want to be famous at. Its incredibly popular in SEO – where people hide behind made up strategies and complex sounding speak.
This is in response to a challenge issue about whether or not we could show Schema doesnt help to rank. Obviously this is going to be super hard to do – because we’re up against social profile sites, LinkedIn etc – so this probably won’t work: so no harm done
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LLM-driven search engines like Perplexity or Gemini don’t just echo your input. When you ask, for example, “CRM for SaaS companies 50-150 employees”, the LLM rewrites or expands the query behind the curtain. Instead of competing head-to-head with your exact keyword match, you’re now in a race across a landscape
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Answer Engine Optimization (AEO), classic Search Engine Optimization (SEO), and “Generative Engine Optimization (GEO)– are not three separate religions; they’re three layers of the same game. A serious strategy in 2026 starts with GO, is executed through SEO, and only then shows up as AEO in AI and answer engines.
What is an EEAT Audit? E‑E‑A‑T is not something you “add” to a page. It’s a reviewer concept and a sanity check Google uses so humans can talk about “is this real, is this safe, is this useful?” If you’re trying to optimize for EEAT as if it’s a ranking
