Modern SEO is broken.
AI killed top-of-funnel. Google’s updates buried blogs. Most traffic today is worthless.
But there’s still one strategy that works in 2025 — and it converts like crazy.
Let me show you:
@midjourney I would gladly pay more to have my auto-moderator requests reviewed by a human so they would stop getting blocked. Auto-mod blocks so much with the Edit tool that it's making it unusable in many scenarios.
@giacomozecchini That makes a lot of sense, appreciate it. Worth mentioning because a blanket ban of Googlebot in robots.txt is mostly not a good practice. Plenty of circumstances where you'd want content omitted from LLMs but not from Google Search.
@giacomozecchini I just shared this (which you're an author of) on my podcast https://t.co/qfQIhDbRn6 but quick note, afaik, Gemini uses User-Agent Google-Extended and not Googlebot (as said in the article) - source: https://t.co/Vqwe4ClKfN
Question: What are some of your favorite marketing case studies?
Answer: Wolves rebranding as dogs and living lives of luxury at the expense of humans.
Our journalist @SteveFlanders22 got tips from other founders too:
- John Rush (@johnrushx)
- Channing Allen (@ChanningAllen)
- Dhravya Shah (@DhravyaShah)
- Edward Sturm (@showprogress)
He wrote about how they use the algo to their advantage here:
https://t.co/cACJwvMATL
This video has gotten nearly two million views in the last under 48 hours on Instagram and TikTok.
I read a viral thread about Apple's packaging strategy aloud on my podcast. Then, I quickly turned the podcast into the video below.
The video was posted on November 1st, 2024. I started making daily videos for Instagram and TikTok on November 1st, 2022. I never missed a day of posting. My first videos got 100-200 views.
Instead of saying content is king for the last decade, SEOs should have been preaching search intent is god. Would have caused way less pain from the HCU and similar updates.