Rush: Ranking top on Google will solve LLM search visibility long-term
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John Rush gives SEO advice to Nathan Latka on how website owners should adapt their optimization strategies for AI models and search engines.
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“I think you should bet on one thing that all LLMs will end up searching internet before they produce any results, and they will end up searching internet in a very similar way. So basically, as long, so if you think that Google is the best search on the internet, and everybody's trying to be like Google, some use Google, some are building their own engines, like, that's similar to Google. I think just focusing on being on top of Google in the longterm will actually solve all the other problems.”
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