🤖 This post was built collaboratively by Will Scott and Bob — his AI assistant — as part of a weekly AI & local search briefing workflow. Will curated the topics and sources; Bob researched, synthesized, and formatted the content. Published March 24, 2026. The shift we've been anticipating all year accelerated dramatically in the …
Google's new BlockRank research (covered in Search Engine Journal) shows how large language models can rank web pages by reading a query alongside multiple documents and determining which one best answers what the user's looking for. DeepMind calls this In-Context Ranking (ICR), and it represents a real shift toward evaluating pages based on meaning, not …
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I was trying to get ChatGPT to render my most recent post on Search Influence as markdown so I could check a chunking tool I made -- copying one from Dejan, Dan Petrovic, (SEO Automation: How I Built an AI-Powered Question Discovery System with Make.com) and it was giving me a hard time, but it …
Most law firms are still stuck on outdated SEO strategies. Today, AI ranks brands based on clear entity relationships—not keywords. This guide breaks down what AI-driven SEO means for law firms, how to build trust signals across platforms, and the specific steps lawyers should take to win in local search.
One of the things I love about the modern AI engines is their ability to educate. I will often go to the tools – ChatGPT mostly – to answer a question I have. I was inspired to think through the following after listening to Andrea Volpini and Gianluca Fiorelli on The Search Session. They referenced Tim Berners-Lee's publication of "The Semantic Web." and it got me thinking about all the other developments that have gotten us to this point in AI search.
Imagine being THE authority on a topic and still losing the AI search. That’s exactly what’s happening to Working Genius. And the problem isn’t content quality. It’s design. A series of UX decisions are making their core message invisible to machines. Angie (my partner in all things) introduced me to the Working Genius model to …
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During the course of our SMX Master Class on Generative Engine Optimization (GEO, aka AI SEO,) a number of topics came up that didn't have a specific connection to a slide.
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