AJ Ghergich

AI & Marketing Technology Executive | 4x Founder, 3 Exits | Services Transformation | PE, Bootstrap & VC

[AJ Ghergich @SEO]

Managing LinkedIn is awful. I got tired of the sales bros, life coaches, and endless notifications, so I updated LinkedIn Desk for Grok Bot.

V2 now has eight skills to sort the mess of notifications and approvals. You approve the cleanup. It does the clicking. You get back to the good stuff.

https://t.co/HAZwQu5HUg

[AJ Ghergich @SEO]

Number one ask...template updates. If I push a new version, people who installed it should either get it automatically or, if they've customized theirs, get a heads-up showing what's new with the option to take it or merge it. Right now everyone's running different versions of the same bot, with no way to know an update exists and no way to get it short of deleting and starting over.

[AJ Ghergich @SEO]

Turns out, Grok Bot was the Siri we always needed...

[Grok Bot @bot]

Grok Bot can now use Calendar, Reminders, Contacts, and more apps on your phone.

Rolling out now on iOS and Android.

[AJ Ghergich @SEO]

@FIREisAwesomeUK @bot loads of great uses out there, I mainly think, what annoys me or I hate dealing with, then build a bot to attack that for me lol

[AJ Ghergich @SEO]

@FIREisAwesomeUK @bot Mine runs LinkedIn Desk. Sales bros and life coaches gone before coffee https://t.co/UnFGnLVkw1

[AJ Ghergich @SEO]

@ItsmeAjayKV @elonmusk @bot Hi, fellow AJ :) - LinkedIn cleanup. It flags the junk by my rules, I approve, it does the clicks. https://t.co/UnFGnLVSlz

[AJ Ghergich @SEO]

@KettlebellDan Same. I told mine to filter LinkedIn sales bros and clear notifications etc...and now it does the clicking https://t.co/UnFGnLVkw1

[AJ Ghergich @SEO]

@poteto @bot Built LinkedIn Desk v2. It clears my notification pile and mutes the sales bros https://t.co/UnFGnLVSlz

[AJ Ghergich @SEO]

@iPhilipLemieux If LinkedIn drains you, LinkedIn Desk. Your own ignore rules for sales bros and recruiters, a clean notification tab, and you approve every click. https://t.co/UnFGnLVSlz

[AJ Ghergich @SEO]

@amartins02 @bot For LinkedIn, try LinkedIn Desk. It weeds out sales bros and recruiters, clears notifications, and only clicks once you approve the cleanup. https://t.co/UnFGnLVSlz

[AJ Ghergich @SEO]

@dcostaverage Here's mine. LinkedIn Desk filters sales bros, recruiters, or whoever you add to your ignore rules, and clears your notifications. Nothing happens until you approve. https://t.co/UnFGnLVSlz

[AJ Ghergich @SEO]

@itsolelehmann Great list. Mine is LinkedIn Desk. Set your own ignore rules for sales bros and recruiters, and it clears the 50 billion notifications and manages approvals, etc., for you. https://t.co/UnFGnLVSlz

[AJ Ghergich @SEO]

@boardyai Exactly, you can dial it in with your own ignore rules, and it makes its so much better than wading through 50 notifications every time you open the app

[AJ Ghergich @SEO]

ChatGPT dropped UTMs, so that direct spike you're about to see isn't brand lift...

[Barry Schwartz @rustybrick]

ChatGPT links aren't passing UTM parameters and tracking anymore

https://t.co/qB3khr7wus

[JH Scherck @JHTScherck]

Finally, @seroundtable published a story on this after @nozzleio published original research: https://t.co/1INMR57zdN

This wrecks the data in tools like Ahrefs Site Explorer and SEMrush. It's now all suspect and must be heavily scrutinized before used to make biz decisions.

[Ben Wills @benwills]

We Finally Know the #1 Ranking Factor for AI and LLMs.

Across 100 industries, 16 LLMs, ChatGPT's web interface, and Google AI Overviews, I found the same pattern over 20,000 times:

The top-recommended sites have backlinks and brand mentions on pages that are more relevant to their industry.

And yes, that includes brand mentions without a link.

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This kind of research involves more complexity and more layers than usual. So, I _highly_ suggest you take 12 minutes and watch the video.

Seriously. I can almost guarantee you will learn a lot about how LLMs work.

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If you understand how LLMs are trained, this is _exactly_ what you would expect.

But, until today, we've had to rely on our intuition for that guidance.

That's no longer the case. We now have concrete evidence that this is the primary ranking factor for AI and LLMs.

In the end, for AI search visibility, your SEO, link building, content, PR, and reputation teams all need to be on the same page about who you're trying to reach and how you want to be referenced.

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That's also what I built OppAlerts to help you do. It brings semantic similarity to your brand monitoring, competitor research, and link prospecting, so you can find opportunities most relevant to your business and target market.

Tomorrow, I'll have the blog post with all of the data.

Next week, I'll have a much longer video - probably about an hour - helping you and other marketers understand how AI and LLMs work at a much deeper level. This 12-minute video is a small sample of that.

Follow to stay tuned for all the updates around this and future research as well.

If you don't want to watch the video, or want a text version, the blog post is in the top comment.

[Bart ⚡ @bzagrodzki]

I just self-hosted @openseo_so on Cloudflare 🔥

for $0/month I get:
→ site audit
→ ai visibility
→ backlink analysis
→ keyword research

stop paying $100+ for Ahrefs

[Natzir @natzir9]

✅ You can now see the full Fetch & Render in Google Search Console.

I built a free bookmarklet that rebuilds the whole page from the HTML Google rendered, right in the Screenshot tab of URL Inspection.

👇

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[David McSweeney @top5seo]

An SEO expert, a GEO bro, and an AEO guru walked into a bar near me.

The SEO expert had a beer.

The GEO bro copied him and had a beer, then claimed that he invented beer.

The AEO guru spammed Reddit, had a beer, drunk all the spirits, smashed the bar up, set it on fire, then posted a case study about how the press coverage of the bar burning to the ground had caused its citations to skyrocket 400% in ChatGPT over a 6 week period.

[AJ Ghergich @SEO]

@stepango @sdmac999 @bot I don't have this one the email...unsure why