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I agree with your comments. Google slit publisher's throats and left them for dead. Sellers are migrating to marketplaces where their goods can at least be possibly found. Despite Nvidia's blowout earnings, it's not enough to prop up the market. Then there's news Trump will sign an AI friendly executive order that will sue states and withhold their Federal funding if they create their own AI laws. It seems to be going from bad to much worse.
<b>White House crafting executive order to thwart state AI laws</b>
<blockquote>The order would establish an AI taskforce to launch lawsuits and threaten federal funding for states with contested AI laws.</blockquote>Full story: <a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2025/11/20/trump-ai-executive-order-state-funding.html">https://www.cnbc.com/2025/11/20/trump-ai-executive-order-state-funding.html</a>
Apples to Apples LOL! Love it! Nice way of saying you are putting lipstick on SEO and calling it GEO LOL! But, the brand thing... That is big. Bigger than I thought and as a small business local advertiser I'm seeing older brands take over because they have been around longer and more 3rd party websites have picked up their info over their many years. THAT is what I call GEO, maintaining and updating your legit, credible, 3rd party directory/review/lead gen local listings.
Redirecting to their own adverts or YouTube or partner companies e.g. Reddit.
Bing could really up their game by improving their presentation and advertising themselves rather than cry in the corner and throwing their toys out of the pram.
This industry is dead. I have no idea who is getting more traffic for Google but almost everyone I talk to says this business is dead. Organic traffic is. They are getting their traffic other ways or just given up already. Once you filter bot traffic, you realize real organic traffic is gone.
Seeing the same as always when google is doing something. Low Conversions, Right now it's none at all. Which is unusual. Tons and Tons Of bot traffic. but Rankings changing all the time, and seeing a lot more AIO.
I know me either I don't know how to pay wages too, I have tax from last year I can't pay now. The legal system takes so long to do anything, the only thing I can think of is to either go public or file injunction on keywords. Seriously, my thoughts are there is legal cases with AI so why have they not stopped until those cases have been heard. I was hoping the crash was coming but these companies seem to just pass around the same $1 trillion so they all look good on the balance sheet. It is a smoking gun and a scam.
What should we do now? It is very, very alarming. We don’t know how many days we can survive. We have a small business, and our main visitors come from Google organic search — but now it is almost zero. So we don't know how we will pay the salaries of our employees.
It is getting into a joke now I see 90% down in traffic and revenue and my writings being used in overviews, what's the point of people going to my site anymore my content has been stolen and served without going to my site - it is theft.
Readers want fast access to answer/knowledge with full convenience which they get from this model and ai that's why they are successful and we website owners get burried in ground, they only need us for data and plagiariam now nothing else, they don't want us to earn any money, very sad and frustrating times ahead
It doesn't relate directly to Google, ChatGPT or CoPilot but it'll help the fight against them....
<a href="https://copyrightlately.com/court-rules-ai-news-summaries-may-infringe-copyright/">https://copyrightlately.com/court-rules-ai-news-summaries-may-infringe-copyright/</a>
No, definitely not, as you can see from the bottom Tweet.
"The level of plagiarism this model has reached is now completely out of control. We are going to have to start proactively warning our followers and readers to not use these AI recipes if they find them. This is outrageous!!"
@rustybrick:disqus
Maybe you could add a special page with a chat function where all visitors could add comments or discuss SEO topics? That would be useful...