Paid search used to be legible. You changed a bid, added a keyword theme, rewrote an ad, and the numbers moved in a direction you could explain. Every input had a traceable output, and reporting was mostly a matter of showing which lever you pulled. That chain has come apart. With Performance Max, Demand Gen, […]
How AI Chooses Which Brands To Recommend: From Relational Knowledge To Topical Presence
Ask ChatGPT or Claude to recommend a product in your market. If your brand does not appear, you have a problem that no amount of keyword optimization will fix. Most SEO professionals, when faced with this, immediately think about content. More pages, more keywords, better on-page signals. But the reason your brand is absent from […]