Not surprised by this data at all, but perhaps some folks in the “SEO is dead, long live GEO” camp should read this. Great work by Patrick, and also excited to be putting out some similar information in the near future 😉 Thanks to Glenn Gabe for flagging

“Go away, plebs.”

Happy Zero Cool day.

For those of you keeping score at home... /llms.txt request count over the last hour for all Shopify merchants by user-agent: Googlebot = 9 Bingbot = 3 OpenAI = 0 Perplexity = 0 Meanwhile, /robots.txt has > 1M requests for these UAs in the same timeframe.

My kingdom for a non-sycophant llm

The 'one weird trick' that dramatically improved my vibe coding a little bit back was literally just 'database_schema.md' Things are pretty amazing, but they're not magic.

fyi, if your circle is mostly celebrating murder, you are the bad guy

🚨HIRING ALERT🚨: Technical SEO Manager This role is ideal for someone based in North America who: 🟣 Loves to roll up their sleeves and execute on technical work. We need doers who produce, not just technical strategists. 🟣 Is extremely detail oriented and can QA their

problem: users can build serp reports, but they can't see the db to see which dates have the weekly or monthly data solution: shameless ui theft

SEO is a way to monetize the value of your brand.* * in general, shortcuts exist, parasites work, etc. Statement aimed at “actual” brands.

Me: What... is this? WTF are you even doing? Claude:

AI assistants get whatever search engines give them as grounding context and sift through that so feel free to file the 99% of the latest AI visibility studies under "SEO".