You’ve Been Optimizing for the Wrong Thing This Whole Time

Google told us how search would change back in 2015, and most of us ignored it because keyword matching still worked. It doesn't anymore.

In this video I break down why your Google ranking and your AI visibility are now two separate scores, why AI pulls most of its citations from outside Google's top results, and how to shift from writing for keywords to answering the real moment behind a search. I also walk through the two-part system for getting cited and a simple plan you can run this week.

What you will learn:
— Why ranking number one on Google only gives you a 31.4% shot at the AI answer, and why it falls to 2.6% by rank four
— What Google's 2015 Micro Moments framework actually said, and the four moments behind every search
— The two questions that decide whether AI cites you, and why your own page is only about 25% of the job
— Where the other 75% comes from: Reddit, review sites like G2 and Trustpilot, and roundup lists

Chapters:
00:00 — The 2015 Warning Almost Everyone Ignored
00:17 — Chapter 1: The Keyword Era
01:50 — Chapter 2: What Google Told Us
03:41 — Chapter 3: How To Find the Moment
05:14 — Chapter 4: How To Get Cited
08:28 — Chapter 5: What 20 Years Of SEO Taught Me

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