10/01/2026
On its "all" still SEO.
Just saw a guy I respect say that the stuff that worked in 2017 does not work today.
Well specifically he said the same tactics do not work .
OK.
But when I have watched my industry try and own acronyms so that they can play Bruce Clay as the inventor of said acronym. Then bro.
SEO → AEO → GEO → LLMO → AI SEO → AISO → GSO → SXO
at some point it will be a test to see if the practitioner can name and define all those 😉
After Neil Patel tried to own the acronyms, he came back to SEO as search everywhere optimization. He gets an A in the REFRAME and actually usefulness. But too little too late where were you before the AI hype? Neil Clay?)
SEO is a process. That process changes with each update. SEO is also a stupid acronym. We do not need more stupidity in our industry.
I also recently watched one of my favorite binge SEO guys teaching basically what I learned from the former guy in 2017. Except in fancier AI-ish words.
If you are wanting to learn SEO as a practitioner or business. Know that generally speaking we insert and INJECT MEANING into documents. That is job number one.
The how is what gets argued, and in fact what many names in the biz are in flight, and will share at expert seminars. As I think it is seminar season.
But even we experts only know one thing. What works for us. Or we might buy and subsequently trust their shared results.
As Google or the others like Chat GPT will not share with us their how. And in fact court docs show how they attempt to misdirect the digital community.
And as I have often warned that Googles documents and their reps who share. Speak with a forked tongue. Unless you believed in that "do no evil thing way back."