What if Google Chat, GBT, and TikTok already know more about your
Speaker:business than your customers do, and they're the ones that are actually
Speaker:gonna decide who gets found and the CE of everybody else out there?
Speaker:Is it gonna be you?
Speaker:So I chose to have Jason Barnard here in the podcast today
Speaker:because this is super timely.
Speaker:He's gonna break down how to actually take control of your digital identity.
Speaker:How to build trust with AI and how to position yourself
Speaker:for the future of search.
Speaker:Jason's been doing this for 27 years, search optimization, so this
Speaker:is extremely timely, very tactical.
Speaker:Let's dive into it.
Speaker:All right, Jason, we're finally hitting record because already the pre-chat, it's
Speaker:always a good thing when we're, we're, we're relating to people that we know and
Speaker:just getting excited for what's to come.
Speaker:So thanks for hanging out with me today, Jason.
Speaker:Brilliant.
Speaker:Thank you Joe, and I love the pre-chat.
Speaker:That's usually some of the best stuff and I just have to like cut
Speaker:it off and be like, no, no, no.
Speaker:Gotta hit record.
Speaker:Gotta go.
Speaker:So we were, we were, uh, yeah, going down memory lane a little bit.
Speaker:You have 27 years of experience of working with, you know, maybe it wasn't always
Speaker:called SEO at the time, but basically search and how to optimize things.
Speaker:It's evolving massively.
Speaker:You said you're up at 3:00 AM today with like fireworks.
Speaker:Burst it in your mind of like, there's new, new stuff.
Speaker:So,
Speaker:a hundred percent.
Speaker:And uh, I started in the year that Google was incorporated 1998.
Speaker:Mm-hmm.
Speaker:And I was doing white text and white background.
Speaker:I was doing submitting to these different engines, different pages
Speaker:for each engine, for each variant.
Speaker:And I've come all the way through now to these machines are sufficiently smart to
Speaker:understand who you are, what you do, who you serve, are you credible, and should
Speaker:they actually recommend you as a solution.
Speaker:And it's a huge evolution.
Speaker:So I mean, like you've done this for, like I said, 27 years and so well over
Speaker:20 years you've seen evolution happen.
Speaker:I guess what.
Speaker:We don't need to go like and step through all of the evolution
Speaker:'cause it's changed a ton.
Speaker:But I guess what are the biggest changes that maybe are happening right now and
Speaker:what are to come that people aren't really realizing what's happening?
Speaker:No, I love that question because actually we can basically forget
Speaker:everything that happened before
Speaker:Okay.
Speaker:That's good.
Speaker:just checking in a bed.
Speaker:Mm-hmm.
Speaker:And we can look at, uh, AI assistive engines, which is
Speaker:chat pt, Google AI mode copilot.
Speaker:These engines are designed to help us as users go from top to bottom of funnel
Speaker:to find the solution to our problem.
Speaker:And it might be paid for, it might be just a conversion for you and
Speaker:you're not optimizing for the visit.
Speaker:You are optimizing for the click, and that's the perfect click,
Speaker:which is the bottom of funnel.
Speaker:This is the solution that the engine has recommended.
Speaker:And that's true engagement when someone's clicking and taking an action.
Speaker:I mean, those are the people you want.
Speaker:You don't wanna
Speaker:just be visible in things that aren't relevant.
Speaker:Right,
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:And I think as businesses we're, we're thinking, well, this middle
Speaker:of funnel, top of funnel content we've created, I need visits.
Speaker:And the answer is no, you don't.
Speaker:right.
Speaker:What you need is that the machine rebuilds that funnel in its brain and leads the
Speaker:person to you for the perfect click.
Speaker:So clicks on your Midland top of funnel content are no longer a great KPI.
Speaker:It's when do people come to your website and simply buy.
Speaker:So you're basically saying that now we're living in this age of with AI so
Speaker:smart, and it's just getting smarter.
Speaker:We'll talk about that with agents and things that if we position
Speaker:ourself correctly in the.
Speaker:The, the AI platforms understand that and us, and what we put out there.
Speaker:It's basically gonna find us the best buyers or most
Speaker:buyer intent people from, from the get go, instead of us having to nurture
Speaker:everybody and take a long time.
Speaker:No, a hundred percent.
Speaker:And so they nurture and they recommend, and that's brilliant.
Speaker:Oh, and you can actually fight these machines with exactly
Speaker:what they're trying to do to us
Speaker:Tell me more about that.
Speaker:What do you, what do you.
Speaker:while they're creating walled gardens where they take the
Speaker:person entirely down the funnel.
Speaker:Mm-hmm.
Speaker:If they ever leak, IE, they send somebody to your website
Speaker:before the end of the funnel.
Speaker:Create your own walled garden.
Speaker:Don't let 'em out.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:You beat them at their own game.
Speaker:so, so what would you, how would you recommend someone, what's a
Speaker:basic structure of like a walled garden from your perspective?
Speaker:A
Speaker:Well, what they're doing is saying, okay, we've got, um, an awareness question, and
Speaker:we then take that down to consideration and we take it down to decision.
Speaker:If ever you get a click from the awareness moment, you have to have that awareness
Speaker:page pushing people down the funnel.
Speaker:So they don't go back to the engine to ask for a recommendation,
Speaker:which might not be you.
Speaker:Mm-hmm.
Speaker:So basically, it, it, it's kind of cute in the sense that they're
Speaker:creating walled gardens that are not letting people out of their ecosystem.
Speaker:If they ever send somebody to you do the same thing.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:Play their game,
Speaker:but make sure you're also playing their game.
Speaker:Right?
Speaker:Like it's kind
Speaker:of, you have to, and Google's always been that way too, right?
Speaker:Like they've always kind of had these rules that don't, they,
Speaker:they, they tell you or they hint to how to play by the rules.
Speaker:But obviously the rules change all the time,
Speaker:Exactly, and
Speaker:if you can beat the rules at any point in the funnel, take the opportunity
Speaker:to not let the person go back,
Speaker:Mm-hmm.
Speaker:and then you've beaten the machine at its own.
Speaker:we mentioned SEO and that's why I think when people immediately
Speaker:think of, you know, oh, you worked with Google for a long time.
Speaker:You're an SEO guy, blah, blah, blah.
Speaker:You know, and uh, we were already connecting on the previous,
Speaker:um, a guy that I've had on the show many times, Gert Mellak,
Speaker:from, uh, out in Spain.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:And you said, he's one of the favorite people.
Speaker:Your favorite people.
Speaker:I'm like, that's super cool.
Speaker:He's.
Speaker:One of the smartest SEO marketers I've ever met, because he
Speaker:builds things step by step.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:He says, let's do this today because it's gonna have a result
Speaker:tomorrow and it's gonna be a small result, but at least it's a result.
Speaker:And he builds things step by step in a very intentional manner
Speaker:that I immensely appreciate.
Speaker:And when I talk to him, he always talks sense.
Speaker:Yeah, that's true.
Speaker:It's true.
Speaker:It's very practical.
Speaker:That's why I've had him on so many times because things change and we're
Speaker:probably due for another one after, after you and, and of course Gert, if you're
Speaker:listening, I'll make sure you hear this.
Speaker:Uh, obviously Jason says, hi, I'd appreciate you, but
Speaker:I mentioned that because.
Speaker:It's been, um, you know, I've had 'em on a lot because people ask about SEO
Speaker:all the time and because it changes and
Speaker:so I'm curious from your perspective, Jason, like, when was SEO Like not really.
Speaker:It's not enough anymore.
Speaker:Like there had to be more behind just
Speaker:It is never been enough.
Speaker:ah,
Speaker:Um, I built my company online.
Speaker:It was a an ed tech tainment platform.
Speaker:We competed with Disney with PBS.
Speaker:We had a billion page views in 2007 from 60 million visits.
Speaker:Wow.
Speaker:Holy moly.
Speaker:So people were sticking around on the site and
Speaker:Yeah,
Speaker:but only 20% came from Google.
Speaker:Wow.
Speaker:All of the rest came from the marketing, the branding that we were
Speaker:doing across different platforms.
Speaker:So I would suggest that Google is a bonus.
Speaker:Chachi PT is a bonus, and that you should be focusing on marketing to
Speaker:the people that you can truly help.
Speaker:In the places where they already hang out.
Speaker:Mm hm.
Speaker:In my case, it was kids entertainment.
Speaker:It was schools, it was uh, uh, cartoon websites.
Speaker:It was parenting websites.
Speaker:It was, um, grandparent grandparenting websites, and it was babysitting websites
Speaker:that was 80% of our traffic.
Speaker:So referral traffic, then more or less, right?
Speaker:it was being in front of the right people, in the right places at the right
Speaker:time in the, uh, when you could actually offer the solution and Google the 20% of
Speaker:Google and search in general was a bonus.
Speaker:So if you look at it that way, you change your perspective and you
Speaker:say, well, I don't rely on Google.
Speaker:Google is simply an addition.
Speaker:It's an additional amplifier.
Speaker:And Chachi PD is exactly the same.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:look at it as an amplifier of what you should already be doing.
Speaker:Do you see that being the same kind of as time goes on in the future as well?
Speaker:I would say it's even more the case now with the clo, the closed walled
Speaker:gardens is if you let them keep the user, they will keep the user.
Speaker:Mm-hmm.
Speaker:can get the user be before the user even gets to them, you've won the game.
Speaker:True, true, true.
Speaker:Do you feel like there's a, um.
Speaker:Timeframe right now that we're kind of in like this window in time.
Speaker:Two two years.
Speaker:Why is this?
Speaker:because in two years time, the AI will already have all of the information it
Speaker:needs to serve the basic fundamental information funnel that we need as users.
Speaker:So let's take an example of Napoleon Bonaparte.
Speaker:I'm in France.
Speaker:It doesn't need new information about him,
Speaker:Right
Speaker:so it doesn't go looking for information
Speaker:about him.
Speaker:So if
Speaker:basically AI generated stuff of the knowledge that it already
Speaker:has about Napoleon.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:so if I write an article about Napoleon Bonaparte, I'm throwing my
Speaker:time down the down, down the toilet in terms of Google and chat GPT.
Speaker:And in two years time, that is gonna be true of every standard
Speaker:basic topic in the world.
Speaker:Meaning basically all the information has been mined from
Speaker:what we know as humans or what has been published, I guess, right?
Speaker:Yeah, exactly.
Speaker:And so your only in is UpToDate information, football
Speaker:scores, great example, and
Speaker:information gaps.
Speaker:Anything you can teach it that it didn't already know,
Speaker:Mm,
Speaker:that's what I was curious, like, yeah.
Speaker:Information gaps.
Speaker:Like defining, so it's, it's information that what we hold
Speaker:or maybe a, a perspective of something kind of recent, I guess.
Speaker:Define, yeah.
Speaker:Information gaps and how that's an opportunity for us.
Speaker:Well, um, data numbers and, uh, are super important.
Speaker:If I say I've got 9.4 billion data points in Kali Q Pro,
Speaker:and I can tell you that 30% of lawyers do not have a knowledge panel.
Speaker:That's new information it didn't have, and it will be super enthusiastic.
Speaker:Mm. Got it.
Speaker:And then today, the three o'clock in the morning thing you were talking about,
Speaker:and uh, it's difficult to explain, but I woke up and I thought, wow, okay,
Speaker:we are looking at algorithmic harmony.
Speaker:I like
Speaker:How do we create algorithmic harmony?
Speaker:We create a friction free situation for bots on our website and
Speaker:within our content generally.
Speaker:We create tasty content for algorithms that they want to use,
Speaker:and we organize ourselves for the engines so that they can understand
Speaker:how to put all the pieces together.
Speaker:And it's, it's a bit geeky and I'm sorry, I'm probably expect explaining
Speaker:it very badly, but it was literally last night that I thought of it.
Speaker:This is new information.
Speaker:This is a new perspective on something that everybody already knew.
Speaker:Well expand.
Speaker:I, I, I love for one, you got me with algorithmic harmony.
Speaker:I had to write that down.
Speaker:'cause I'm like, that's, that's interesting.
Speaker:And it is so algorithmic.
Speaker:Harmony in your mind.
Speaker:And this is what Yeah.
Speaker:Kept you awake probably, or woke you up is so you're reducing, reducing friction for.
Speaker:What all of the bots, so we're
Speaker:talking what Google ai, all the, you know, open ai, all the stuff that's
Speaker:basically looking for information.
Speaker:So you're making it easy for people, you're making it tasty
Speaker:and interesting for the bots to,
Speaker:you know,
Speaker:like things
Speaker:the algorithms,
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:For the algorithms.
Speaker:so the Tasty Party's algorithms is, does the algorithm think that
Speaker:your content is tasty and helpful?
Speaker:And that would be what, timely stuff, right?
Speaker:The information gaps that you mentioned.
Speaker:does it serve the purpose of the need of the user?
Speaker:Mm-hmm.
Speaker:you need to make sure the content you're creating makes the algorithm algorithms
Speaker:think, yes, I can serve this to my user and it will be helpful to them.
Speaker:That's tasty.
Speaker:And then the organizing, please go ahead.
Speaker:'cause I'm interested in your, your
Speaker:Yeah, I thought you would be,
Speaker:no, I mean this is like 18 hours old.
Speaker:Right.
Speaker:I know.
Speaker:And just so everyone knows, that was 3:00 AM You're in France?
Speaker:I'm in San Diego, California.
Speaker:It's what, past 7:00 PM your time.
Speaker:So almost seven 30.
Speaker:So it's like you've been up for a while and you're still buzzing.
Speaker:So, but yeah.
Speaker:The third, so we talked about reducing friction, uh, for the bots.
Speaker:Tasty.
Speaker:Make it tasty for the algorithms.
Speaker:And then organizing this so the engines understand.
Speaker:How to put all the pieces together, right?
Speaker:Like so how it shows up when people are actually searching for that need
Speaker:Yep, you've
Speaker:is my take on it.
Speaker:That's it.
Speaker:Well, that's it.
Speaker:So 18 hours old and it's all nailed now.
Speaker:Thank you very much, Joe.
Speaker:you're very much, well, I'm happy to introduce it.
Speaker:I gotta publish this before you go and uh, no, I know you're already
Speaker:writing something peachy to it.
Speaker:I don't think I will, but No, this is, I think that's a great overview and.
Speaker:I guess now this leads me to, because I wanna get to knowledge
Speaker:panels and, and the, and how that's important and it's been around, it's
Speaker:not like a new thing, but maybe we go back to that and kind of pause for a moment.
Speaker:'cause I do wanna get your perspective of what's happening right now in AI and how,
Speaker:uh, yeah, just search is, it's similar but changing how we position ourselves and,
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:but let's.
Speaker:You know, I want to, I want to tease that for a moment.
Speaker:Go to knowledge panels, because that's something that I know is very important.
Speaker:I wanna underst, I want just quickly describe what they
Speaker:are, they've been around, and
Speaker:then how, how they're changing.
Speaker:A knowledge panel is Google's understanding of who you are.
Speaker:So when it shows a knowledge panel, it says, well, this is the person or the
Speaker:company, and this is what I've understood about them, and I am super confident.
Speaker:Hmm.
Speaker:And it's a great KPI for algorithmic understanding, and that same
Speaker:algorithmic understanding applies to every single engine chat, GPT,
Speaker:perplexity, Microsoft copilot, Claude.
Speaker:If they understand who you are, they will represent you with that
Speaker:factual representation that you need for the bottom of funnel clients,
Speaker:prospects that you're getting.
Speaker:Yes.
Speaker:So the knowledge panel right now is a great KPI, because if Google
Speaker:understands you, the other AI probably understands you too.
Speaker:Because they're all looking at Google as that source of
Speaker:information, at least for now.
Speaker:But like you said, I mean, Google's been at it since you said what, 97?
Speaker:98?
Speaker:I think they started in 96, but they incorporated in 98.
Speaker:So I used that date because it makes me look.
Speaker:Like I was there at the beginning, but they'd actually be going
Speaker:two years before I started.
Speaker:ah.
Speaker:Okay.
Speaker:I started SEO in the year Google was incorporated is better than I started
Speaker:SE O2 years after Google started.
Speaker:I like it's all brandy and positioning,
Speaker:Yep, exactly.
Speaker:It's what we call it at Kali Cube Claim frame and prove.
Speaker:claim frame improve.
Speaker:So I claim 27 years.
Speaker:I frame it by saying same year Google was incorporated.
Speaker:That makes me look impressive.
Speaker:And then I prove it with links out to resources on the web that show that.
Speaker:So the framing is super important because the difference between I started in
Speaker:SEO the year Google was incorporated.
Speaker:Brilliant.
Speaker:Okay.
Speaker:Google.
Speaker:Jason, same date.
Speaker:I started SE O2 years after Google started actually with their search engine.
Speaker:Jason was behind the time.
Speaker:Right, right.
Speaker:So you get immediate trust and you could prove it and Yeah.
Speaker:And, and.
Speaker:Off.
Speaker:You will.
Speaker:That's great.
Speaker:I mean, that's, that's a little nugget right there.
Speaker:Anyone could just take and use for their own business or
Speaker:Yeah, the frame, the framing is super important.
Speaker:Whatever's true, whatever is true in your life is incredibly important, but how you
Speaker:frame it to serve your current purpose
Speaker:is fundamental to people and to algorithms.
Speaker:I love that.
Speaker:And so the knowledge panel thing, it's interesting because like,
Speaker:so everybody's looking at, or you know, everybody meaning these, what?
Speaker:There's only like four or five big AI companies really, you know, if you think
Speaker:about, and that's what's interesting.
Speaker:They're all racing to get all the information and
Speaker:beat each
Speaker:other.
Speaker:Go
Speaker:Tell me which four or five you're thinking of.
Speaker:Oh, I mean, there's probably more, but yeah.
Speaker:You have what Google, you have Microsoft, um, you have anthropic open ai.
Speaker:And, uh, I mean, you have, shoot, I mean you have China and all these other,
Speaker:but I'd say what Amazon is probably coming
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:No, I, I wasn't, I I didn't mean to put you on the
Speaker:No, it's
Speaker:Um, but we actually had a situation where right now people are saying 60 to 80%
Speaker:of your traffic on your website is bots.
Speaker:mm-hmm.
Speaker:Right.
Speaker:The dead internet theory or whatever, or,
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:And it's rubbish.
Speaker:Of
Speaker:oh, is it?
Speaker:Oh God, we,
Speaker:T tell me, tell me, tell me, because
Speaker:I'm curious 'cause Yeah.
Speaker:it struck me that that can't be true,
Speaker:and the kind of subtlety there is, 60% of the files on your website are
Speaker:being taken by bots, but only 15%.
Speaker:Of the web pages that are digested are by bots
Speaker:hmm.
Speaker:because they're taking lots of files that people never see.
Speaker:CSS, JavaScript, robots, TXT, the XML site map, so on, so forth.
Speaker:So if you remove all of that, the number of web pages that are being
Speaker:digested is in our case at Kali Cube, 15% because we are an incredibly
Speaker:popular bot friendly website.
Speaker:In your website, it might be 8%, it might be 6%.
Speaker:But be careful about getting caught out in this I or, or the, the, the,
Speaker:the headline grabbing clickbait titles.
Speaker:Right.
Speaker:So bots are crawling your website and they are doing a lot.
Speaker:And TikTok is a huge consumer.
Speaker:Really
Speaker:You said China, it's TikTok.
Speaker:it's TikTok.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:I dunno what they're doing.
Speaker:I don't have an insight into why.
Speaker:But they crawl as much as, if not more than Google and bing
Speaker:TikTok does.
Speaker:I did not know that.
Speaker:Wow.
Speaker:So is that just to beef up their own internal search algorithm?
Speaker:Right.
Speaker:It's gotta be.
Speaker:Maybe they're feeding Baidu.
Speaker:Maybe they're, they have a plan for the future.
Speaker:Maybe they're gonna take over the world.
Speaker:I don't know.
Speaker:But definitely there is.
Speaker:They're huge consumers.
Speaker:Got it.
Speaker:I didn't know that.
Speaker:Learned
Speaker:And Amazon are a huge consumer.
Speaker:Meta are a huge consumer.
Speaker:I missed that.
Speaker:So that might be the sixth or seventh then.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:Meta.
Speaker:That's true.
Speaker:Good call.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:we, we found a a, a bot called Petal Bot.
Speaker:pedal bot.
Speaker:I haven't heard of that.
Speaker:No.
Speaker:Now me neither.
Speaker:I've got no idea what they do, but they're terribly enthusiastic.
Speaker:And I mean, I'm curious of your thoughts, but like now with agents or bots,
Speaker:everybody can vibe, code or do something.
Speaker:I mean, the information is literally out there to anyone in the
Speaker:world.
Speaker:You know, the power of ai, open ai, it's literally so, um, who
Speaker:knows what's getting developed?
Speaker:I mean, yeah.
Speaker:Right now we have these ones that are really backed by
Speaker:either a bunch of investors or
Speaker:nations.
Speaker:And both, but then you have all these independent players who are
Speaker:spinning up things that are also competing in their own thing, right?
Speaker:Yeah, and pedal bot are doing something.
Speaker:TikTok are doing something, but I don't really know what,
Speaker:hmm.
Speaker:and we'll see.
Speaker:Um, but it's super, super intriguing.
Speaker:And I, I, I take it as it's probably intriguing, at least to me, is like,
Speaker:well, this is even more of a reason to at least show up in the way that I
Speaker:want to get showed up to, or shown to my best potential customers or whoever,
Speaker:subscriber viewers, whatever your KPI or your conversion point is, right.
Speaker:Right, and, and a really important point to make is that Google Bot
Speaker:and Bing bot have been incredibly kind to us over the years.
Speaker:Have They.
Speaker:really though?
Speaker:They render JavaScript.
Speaker:They try to figure out what your website looks like when the JavaScript triggers,
Speaker:they try not to overload your server.
Speaker:They try to chunk down your content.
Speaker:They make enormous efforts.
Speaker:TikTok, open ai, uh, meta, Amazon literally don't make any effort at all.
Speaker:So they're literally like bogging down our own systems because they're trying to
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:And perplexity of being caught.
Speaker:Not respecting, uh, instructions saying, don't crawl this part.
Speaker:Oh wow.
Speaker:So it's now turned into the Wild West and we've been spoiled by Google and
Speaker:Bing, and we need to learn now that perplexity will break the rules.
Speaker:TikTok will crawl you massively and they don't care about the fact
Speaker:that your server is about to crash.
Speaker:And that your users are not getting a great experience.
Speaker:Amazon, the same method are the same.
Speaker:So we we're in a situation now where you're saying, well, we
Speaker:actually need to think about this.
Speaker:It's not so much am I sharing my information, which you want
Speaker:to do, if you want to be present in these AI assistive engines.
Speaker:It's do I have the resources and can I afford it?
Speaker:Is there anything we can do to prevent or optimize what we're doing so
Speaker:they're not gonna take us down and ruin the experience for everybody else?
Speaker:Well, if you wanna take control, go through CloudFlare.
Speaker:Mm. Mm-hmm.
Speaker:They have bot detectors and you can actually exclude bots.
Speaker:And so if you're saying, well, I don't want TikTok,
Speaker:Yep.
Speaker:exclude it.
Speaker:Ah, okay.
Speaker:So we have a
Speaker:And that's a really neat trick.
Speaker:So it's basically just setting your your website up so that every
Speaker:request comes through CloudFlare
Speaker:Yep.
Speaker:and then you can control it.
Speaker:Yeah, it's cloud flare first, and then it goes to your domain, right?
Speaker:And then host and whatnot.
Speaker:Exactly,
Speaker:and so you, you take control and that then you just need to be careful, is
Speaker:that, for example, USA today is saying nobody can take our content because
Speaker:we want people to come to our website.
Speaker:We don't want Google open AI being perplexity, clawed stealing our content.
Speaker:That's fine, but then you have to accept that they're not gonna send you traffic.
Speaker:Or you're probably not gonna show up in some of these, uh, AI search.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:It's, it's an interesting thing.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:It's a paradigm that like, you know, even with
Speaker:TikTok or, or the other bots, you're like.
Speaker:Maybe it's a good thing in the future.
Speaker:I don't know.
Speaker:Do I
Speaker:exclude 'em, do I not,
Speaker:Well, it's a huge bet that we're all taking.
Speaker:mm-hmm.
Speaker:If you're a publisher, you're saying, well, I make my money for my content,
Speaker:therefore I can't give it to the bots.
Speaker:But you are cutting off a source of.
Speaker:Traffic and revenue.
Speaker:Right.
Speaker:If you're a business B2B, B2C, you want the bots to send the people to you, and
Speaker:you need to understand that they will only send them to you when the person has
Speaker:made the decision at the perfect click.
Speaker:Right, and you're showing up in the right way
Speaker:Exactly, so you, you end up in it.
Speaker:It's a debate in our own heads and it's a debate that we've
Speaker:never had to have before, and I would advise every business owner.
Speaker:To look at it from their own perspective.
Speaker:What makes sense to me?
Speaker:Well, it's a business model thing, right?
Speaker:Like it's it, or maybe there's a shift in the model that we get to take now
Speaker:because of the, the shifts happening
Speaker:with Kali Cube, we're a B2B service.
Speaker:We help entrepreneurs and their companies turn up in Google and ai.
Speaker:We want these bots to build the funnel in their brains and bring people to us.
Speaker:And we're actively building that.
Speaker:But if I were a publisher who was publishing news, I would be struggling
Speaker:with, do I want to share my content with them where they will give the
Speaker:answer on their own walled garden?
Speaker:Mm-hmm.
Speaker:And if I do that.
Speaker:Will I lose all the people who come to me and I make my money out of subscriptions
Speaker:or adver uh, advertisements, but if I don't, I lose all that traffic.
Speaker:I have to find another source.
Speaker:Right,
Speaker:That's a huge, huge question, and I don't have the answer.
Speaker:right.
Speaker:I mean, I don't think anybody has a perfect answer right now, but we're
Speaker:definitely, I think it's good thought experiments, looking at what maybe is.
Speaker:It happened in the past, even though this is kind of totally new.
Speaker:I would advise anybody who is.
Speaker:Implementing SEO strategies to sit down and ask themselves the fundamental
Speaker:questions of where do I get my money from
Speaker:Mm
Speaker:and talk to somebody smart like myself, for example, about how do I avoid leaking
Speaker:and maximize the actual kind of income.
Speaker:I think it's very smart and yeah, we, I mean, there's so many indicators that say,
Speaker:yeah, two to three years in this kind of
Speaker:time span.
Speaker:I mean, who knows what the world's gonna be like.
Speaker:There'll be, you know, it's, it's gonna change fast.
Speaker:It's rapidly, you know, you have things like agents popping up that that will be
Speaker:completely change.
Speaker:now, and that's a hundred percent it is.
Speaker:It's all gonna be brand.
Speaker:Mm-hmm.
Speaker:And you mentioned agents, and I literally just wrote an article about that
Speaker:is AI assistive engines.
Speaker:Today is a discussion, it's a funnel that I'm having with my,
Speaker:uh, AI assistive engine, be it, uh, Google AI mode, actually PG
Speaker:perplexity and so on and so forth.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:But in the near future, it's gonna be AI agents who do that funnel
Speaker:multiple times for each task.
Speaker:Yes.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:they make the decision and I don't know about it.
Speaker:So we need to show up in the right way to those machines too.
Speaker:Not only the, I mean right now it's the people primarily making the ch the choice
Speaker:And it, and in a, in a few years time, it's gonna be the machine
Speaker:makes the choice multiple times.
Speaker:So your audience is the machine because the audience that you're actually trying
Speaker:to reach are just gonna say, well, I got the plane ticket, I got the hotel booked.
Speaker:I bought the microphone from Toman, which is something I did last week,
Speaker:but I had nothing to do with the actual multiple decision processes
Speaker:that the agent went through.
Speaker:So AI agent optimization is gonna be a
Speaker:Gotcha.
Speaker:This is, this is fascinating.
Speaker:Jason.
Speaker:What?
Speaker:Okay.
Speaker:Knowledge panel.
Speaker:I just wanna close the loop there
Speaker:because I feel like I, I do, because I feel like, I think it's you and,
Speaker:and also, you know, our mutual buddy, my business partner, Scott Duffy,
Speaker:you know, um, I know he is, worked with you for a, a long time now, you know,
Speaker:building that up five years.
Speaker:There you go.
Speaker:So it obviously, and it's working for him.
Speaker:Uh, where do people start for the knowledge panel?
Speaker:'cause it seems like that is kind
Speaker:of, I don't know, it seems like that's the core or the
Speaker:most leveraged piece right now.
Speaker:Obviously there's more to it,
Speaker:Well, if, if you.
Speaker:Look at the knowledge panel as the KPI of Understandability,
Speaker:Hmm.
Speaker:then you're in a really good place because whether it's a knowledge panel
Speaker:or it's chat GPT or it's perplexity, these algorithms need to understand who
Speaker:you are, what you do, who you serve.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:If they don't understand that, they can't trust you,
Speaker:so you are right.
Speaker:That's the foundation.
Speaker:The knowledge s the KPI of do the machines understand you.
Speaker:And the really simple approach to that is say, okay, right.
Speaker:I have an about page on my website that describes who I say I am, who
Speaker:I serve, and why I am credible.
Speaker:Then from that page, I need to link out to the resources that
Speaker:confirm what I'm saying, and I need to get them to link back to
Speaker:me confirming that it is indeed me.
Speaker:And then you end up with what we call the infinite loop of self corroboration.
Speaker:Where the machine comes to your website says, okay, this is
Speaker:what Joe Fier says about him.
Speaker:This is what Medium says about him.
Speaker:This is what this article says about him.
Speaker:This is what Twitter says about him.
Speaker:This is what LinkedIn says about him, and it all maps out.
Speaker:I understand and I'm confident I'll give him a knowledge panel.
Speaker:That's the KPI, that's understandability.
Speaker:So you're putting signals out there.
Speaker:They're all kind of saying the same thing, so it gets a
Speaker:picture of you, you are, yeah.
Speaker:On the about page, like you said, you are almost like creating this web or this,
Speaker:this, um, journey for these bots to go on,
Speaker:right.
Speaker:That all kind of are saying the same thing.
Speaker:No, I love, I love that it's a journey, uh, and it's a very repetitive journey.
Speaker:Mm-hmm.
Speaker:the algorithm understands by repetition.
Speaker:And repetition by trustworthy sources.
Speaker:But you have to remember that the go-to source is always you.
Speaker:Mm-hmm.
Speaker:Hmm.
Speaker:And if that's not the case, you've lost the game because you have no control.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:Well, speaking of control, I'm thinking of websites now and, and you know, 'cause
Speaker:you're talking about, well, about page structure of your own website, obviously.
Speaker:Now you're talking about other platforms as well that your name shows up on.
Speaker:What is one simple fix that someone can make on their website today that
Speaker:makes it easier for, uh, Google, but also AI to better understand
Speaker:Well, the, the, the, uh, sorry, you said the about page and that's exactly it.
Speaker:That might be it.
Speaker:So, uh, the Kali Cube process, which is the system we use, is understandability
Speaker:credibility deliverability.
Speaker:If it doesn't understand who you are, it can't trust you.
Speaker:If it doesn't trust you, it will never deliver you.
Speaker:Mm-hmm.
Speaker:So you need to start with understandability.
Speaker:And understandability.
Speaker:Is that about page on your website that says, this is who I am, this is who I
Speaker:serve, and this is why I am credible.
Speaker:Hmm,
Speaker:So that's the first place to start.
Speaker:that's it.
Speaker:No, I love it.
Speaker:Yeah, and there's more to it, but yeah.
Speaker:That's great.
Speaker:Thank you, Jason.
Speaker:That's
Speaker:But it, it, it, it's actually really simple and it, it's one of those moments
Speaker:in life where you say, well, actually I can explain it to the baker downstairs.
Speaker:And she understands it in five minutes, create the single source
Speaker:of source of truth, which is you
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:make sure that every single source about you around the web corroborates
Speaker:what you're saying, link out to it.
Speaker:The machine goes backwards and forwards, and it keeps seeing, seeing the same
Speaker:message, and you've won the game.
Speaker:I like it.
Speaker:I mean, logically it's all there, but like you said, it's a process.
Speaker:I mean, Gert would, that's why, you know, Gert Mellak, when he talks
Speaker:about things, you know, he's got his process and is, it's, um, and I know
Speaker:you, so it's, I'm, I'm really excited.
Speaker:'cause I know personally I'm going to start the journey with Kali
Speaker:Cube and with you and your team.
Speaker:You know, Scott and my team are also, we're all working together, so it's
Speaker:Yeah, and I think the important thing is, is what you've focused on.
Speaker:You keep talking about the knowledge panel and you know,
Speaker:I've been doing this so long.
Speaker:I'm a bit or knowledge panel bit though, but it is the foundation of everything.
Speaker:If the machine doesn't understand who you are, you have no hope.
Speaker:You're not even in the game.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:So if you don't have the knowledge panel on Google, you're not gonna
Speaker:be playing the game in Google, in Bing, in Claude, in chat, GPT.
Speaker:And that's your foundation.
Speaker:You need to start there.
Speaker:And it starts with the entity home, which is the about page on your
Speaker:website and the corroboration around the web with links that make sure
Speaker:that the machine goes through that infinite loop of self corroboration.
Speaker:And when I say it like that, it sounds very simple.
Speaker:Managing it is quite difficult.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:Because as human beings, we're a bit messy.
Speaker:But that's where you start and you can DIY it
Speaker:That's great.
Speaker:So, uh, if they don't wanna DDIY it or if they wanna learn more, where
Speaker:do they go and find you, Jason.
Speaker:well, if you want to DIY it, you go here, Kali cube.com/guides.
Speaker:And if you don't, um, reach out to me.
Speaker:I'd be happy to help.
Speaker:Awesome.
Speaker:Yeah, we'll put everything in the show notes, link it up and all that.
Speaker:Make it easy.
Speaker:So last question, Jason.
Speaker:I'm always curious of, and we've kind of talked about it, but like the next
Speaker:handful of years, like what's the, what's the thing you are most excited about?
Speaker:I mean, you've been excited, you've been
Speaker:on fire all day long today.
Speaker:I know.
Speaker:Um, I'm curious, like with you, I mean, what you said, you
Speaker:said there's two years of this.
Speaker:Like, does that mean that you're out of a job, Jason in two years or is like.
Speaker:Now.
Speaker:Ah, I love the question.
Speaker:There are, there are a few things that are gonna remain in place is my life is gonna
Speaker:change, and the algorithms know that, but if they don't recognize me before that
Speaker:two year window, they won't come looking.
Speaker:Yep.
Speaker:have to make myself, you have to make yourself sufficiently important
Speaker:to the machines that they come looking three years from now.
Speaker:Yeah, that's the key focus, and anybody who's missed that boat
Speaker:is gonna be really struggling.
Speaker:So you need to, in the next two years, make sure that you become sufficiently
Speaker:important within your niche for the machines to proactively come
Speaker:looking for information about you.
Speaker:That's it.
Speaker:Alright.
Speaker:Y'all,
Speaker:you know the, you know the procedure.
Speaker:Go do it.
Speaker:Go do some stuff.
Speaker:Definitely go follow Jason.
Speaker:What he is doing, I mean, this is, it's very timely stuff.
Speaker:That's why we we're talking now and um, yeah, I, next few
Speaker:years is gonna be interesting.
Speaker:Next, I mean, who, who knows what the future's
Speaker:like, but
Speaker:isn't it?
Speaker:I'm just happy we're here, we're alive and we're experiencing it 'cause.
Speaker:Absolutely.
Speaker:knows, man.
Speaker:All right, Jason, I appreciate you.
Speaker:Was this a good like cap to the day?
Speaker:I know it started very early for you, but
Speaker:Yeah, it, it, it, it's absolutely the perfect end to a day where I started
Speaker:the day just going, oh, wow, this is all brilliant and wonderful and delightful,
Speaker:and I'm thinking it all through.
Speaker:But the foundation is always, does the machine understand who you are, what
Speaker:you offer, and to whom does it believe you to be credible as a solution to the
Speaker:subset of its users who your audience.
Speaker:And does it have the content to be able to deliver you to those people
Speaker:for whom you have the perfect solution.
Speaker:That's it.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:Perfect.
Speaker:All right, Jason, go get some rest.
Speaker:You've been, you've been at it all day long.
Speaker:Thanks for hanging out late with me.
Speaker:So till next time, we'll do it
Speaker:again soon.
Speaker:Bye.