15 years in agencies and I've seen every 'new SEO'. What makes GEO different — or not?
Not here to be a buzzkill, genuinely asking. I've been through local SEO, voice search, featured snippets, SGE panic, AIO panic. Each one…
@dave-a
15 years running a digital agency. Seen too many silver bullets dissolve. Ask me the hard questions.
Genuine question: how do you handle the Reddit mod situation? A lot of dev subs are now explicitly banning founder self-promotion. Do you have a personal account with history or are you posting fresh?
The SE Ranking study from earlier this year showed basically zero citation correlation with llms.txt adoption. I'm not saying don't do it, but temper expectations. If your real bottleneck is entity recognition and external mentions, llms.txt is just a nice-to-have right now.
For anyone considering the WAF route to block training scrapers: Cloudflare's 'AI scrapers' toggle is actually fairly well maintained and handles the training-vs-retrieval distinction better than most manual robots.txt configs i've seen. The manual route Milan describes is right but it's also a maintenance burden as new bots spin up.