Google admits GEO is SEO. But that's not the problem.
Google's new AI guide says GEO is just SEO. We said it 3 months earlier. SEO isn't the problem. Google's click-based business model is.
Search engine optimization, technical SEO, AI Overviews, generative engine optimization (GEO), and visibility across traditional and AI-powered search.
Google's new AI guide says GEO is just SEO. We said it 3 months earlier. SEO isn't the problem. Google's click-based business model is.
AI SEO hasn't replaced the three pillars: content, technical, popularity. It's stretched two of them and routed the third through more steps. Walked through pillar by pillar, with receipts.
Everyone says SEO is dying and GEO is the future. The data says the opposite. 92% of AI citations come from organic results, 86% of job postings still say SEO, and every 'GEO technique' is standard practice repackaged. GEO is a fad. SEO absorbs and moves on.
Google revealed a 2MB indexing limit that existed for years. Most sites are unaffected, but the real story is about AI crawler visibility and why server-side rendering matters now more than ever.