Rand Fishkin: Zero-click search began long before AI

Fishkin also discussed AI’s unreliable answers, Google reducing organic visibility, and why early SEO offered more open opportunities.

Fishkin also discussed AI’s unreliable answers, Google reducing organic visibility, and why early SEO offered more open opportunities.

Asset Studio speeds up ad creation, but limited control, workflow trade-offs, and shifting responsibilities complicate the picture.
The European Commission proposed Google share data with rival search engines and qualifying AI chatbots in the EU/EEA.
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Many ecommerce brands misapply Meta-style thinking to Google Ads, leading to wasted spend and weak performance from poorly structured accounts.
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Google has outlined best practices that can increase the likelihood of « Read more » deep links appearing.
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Trust in search is now dynamic, requiring ongoing authority building, content maintenance, and structured delivery to remain visible.
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Data doesn’t persuade on its own. Structure your insights to show what’s working, what’s not, and what to do next.

Everyone is rushing to apply AI, but foundational identity gaps, fraud and bad inputs are only being amplified, not solved, by models.
Research on 68 million AI crawler visits show what SEOs should do to improve AI search performance
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Sometimes, back pain is felt in the thighs or even the ankles. But treating the part that hurts does nothing to address the real problem. Most business challenges have a similar pattern–it might feel like the problem is your customer’s attitude or how busy a location is–but it’s probably a different problem, something more systemic,