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What if Google Chat, GBT, and TikTok already know more about your

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business than your customers do, and they're the ones that are actually

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gonna decide who gets found and the CE of everybody else out there?

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Is it gonna be you?

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So I chose to have Jason Barnard here in the podcast today

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because this is super timely.

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He's gonna break down how to actually take control of your digital identity.

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How to build trust with AI and how to position yourself

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for the future of search.

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Jason's been doing this for 27 years, search optimization, so this

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is extremely timely, very tactical.

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Let's dive into it.

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All right, Jason, we're finally hitting record because already the pre-chat, it's

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always a good thing when we're, we're, we're relating to people that we know and

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just getting excited for what's to come.

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So thanks for hanging out with me today, Jason.

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Brilliant.

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Thank you Joe, and I love the pre-chat.

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That's usually some of the best stuff and I just have to like cut

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it off and be like, no, no, no.

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Gotta hit record.

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Gotta go.

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So we were, we were, uh, yeah, going down memory lane a little bit.

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You have 27 years of experience of working with, you know, maybe it wasn't always

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called SEO at the time, but basically search and how to optimize things.

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It's evolving massively.

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You said you're up at 3:00 AM today with like fireworks.

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Burst it in your mind of like, there's new, new stuff.

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So,

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a hundred percent.

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And uh, I started in the year that Google was incorporated 1998.

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Mm-hmm.

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And I was doing white text and white background.

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I was doing submitting to these different engines, different pages

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for each engine, for each variant.

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And I've come all the way through now to these machines are sufficiently smart to

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understand who you are, what you do, who you serve, are you credible, and should

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they actually recommend you as a solution.

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And it's a huge evolution.

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So I mean, like you've done this for, like I said, 27 years and so well over

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20 years you've seen evolution happen.

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I guess what.

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We don't need to go like and step through all of the evolution

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'cause it's changed a ton.

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But I guess what are the biggest changes that maybe are happening right now and

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what are to come that people aren't really realizing what's happening?

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No, I love that question because actually we can basically forget

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everything that happened before

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Okay.

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That's good.

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just checking in a bed.

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Mm-hmm.

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And we can look at, uh, AI assistive engines, which is

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chat pt, Google AI mode copilot.

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These engines are designed to help us as users go from top to bottom of funnel

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to find the solution to our problem.

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And it might be paid for, it might be just a conversion for you and

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you're not optimizing for the visit.

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You are optimizing for the click, and that's the perfect click,

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which is the bottom of funnel.

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This is the solution that the engine has recommended.

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And that's true engagement when someone's clicking and taking an action.

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I mean, those are the people you want.

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You don't wanna

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just be visible in things that aren't relevant.

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Right,

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Yeah.

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And I think as businesses we're, we're thinking, well, this middle

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of funnel, top of funnel content we've created, I need visits.

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And the answer is no, you don't.

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right.

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What you need is that the machine rebuilds that funnel in its brain and leads the

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person to you for the perfect click.

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So clicks on your Midland top of funnel content are no longer a great KPI.

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It's when do people come to your website and simply buy.

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So you're basically saying that now we're living in this age of with AI so

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smart, and it's just getting smarter.

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We'll talk about that with agents and things that if we position

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ourself correctly in the.

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The, the AI platforms understand that and us, and what we put out there.

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It's basically gonna find us the best buyers or most

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buyer intent people from, from the get go, instead of us having to nurture

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everybody and take a long time.

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No, a hundred percent.

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And so they nurture and they recommend, and that's brilliant.

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Oh, and you can actually fight these machines with exactly

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what they're trying to do to us

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Tell me more about that.

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What do you, what do you.

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while they're creating walled gardens where they take the

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person entirely down the funnel.

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Mm-hmm.

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If they ever leak, IE, they send somebody to your website

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before the end of the funnel.

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Create your own walled garden.

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Don't let 'em out.

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Yeah.

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You beat them at their own game.

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so, so what would you, how would you recommend someone, what's a

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basic structure of like a walled garden from your perspective?

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A

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Well, what they're doing is saying, okay, we've got, um, an awareness question, and

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we then take that down to consideration and we take it down to decision.

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If ever you get a click from the awareness moment, you have to have that awareness

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page pushing people down the funnel.

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So they don't go back to the engine to ask for a recommendation,

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which might not be you.

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Mm-hmm.

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So basically, it, it, it's kind of cute in the sense that they're

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creating walled gardens that are not letting people out of their ecosystem.

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If they ever send somebody to you do the same thing.

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Yeah.

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Play their game,

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but make sure you're also playing their game.

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Right?

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Like it's kind

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of, you have to, and Google's always been that way too, right?

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Like they've always kind of had these rules that don't, they,

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they, they tell you or they hint to how to play by the rules.

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But obviously the rules change all the time,

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Exactly, and

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if you can beat the rules at any point in the funnel, take the opportunity

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to not let the person go back,

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Mm-hmm.

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and then you've beaten the machine at its own.

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we mentioned SEO and that's why I think when people immediately

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think of, you know, oh, you worked with Google for a long time.

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You're an SEO guy, blah, blah, blah.

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You know, and uh, we were already connecting on the previous,

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um, a guy that I've had on the show many times, Gert Mellak,

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from, uh, out in Spain.

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Yeah.

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And you said, he's one of the favorite people.

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Your favorite people.

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I'm like, that's super cool.

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He's.

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One of the smartest SEO marketers I've ever met, because he

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builds things step by step.

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Yeah.

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He says, let's do this today because it's gonna have a result

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tomorrow and it's gonna be a small result, but at least it's a result.

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And he builds things step by step in a very intentional manner

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that I immensely appreciate.

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And when I talk to him, he always talks sense.

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Yeah, that's true.

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It's true.

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It's very practical.

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That's why I've had him on so many times because things change and we're

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probably due for another one after, after you and, and of course Gert, if you're

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listening, I'll make sure you hear this.

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Uh, obviously Jason says, hi, I'd appreciate you, but

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I mentioned that because.

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It's been, um, you know, I've had 'em on a lot because people ask about SEO

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all the time and because it changes and

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so I'm curious from your perspective, Jason, like, when was SEO Like not really.

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It's not enough anymore.

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Like there had to be more behind just

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It is never been enough.

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ah,

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Um, I built my company online.

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It was a an ed tech tainment platform.

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We competed with Disney with PBS.

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We had a billion page views in 2007 from 60 million visits.

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Wow.

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Holy moly.

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So people were sticking around on the site and

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Yeah,

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but only 20% came from Google.

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Wow.

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All of the rest came from the marketing, the branding that we were

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doing across different platforms.

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So I would suggest that Google is a bonus.

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Chachi PT is a bonus, and that you should be focusing on marketing to

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the people that you can truly help.

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In the places where they already hang out.

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Mm hm.

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In my case, it was kids entertainment.

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It was schools, it was uh, uh, cartoon websites.

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It was parenting websites.

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It was, um, grandparent grandparenting websites, and it was babysitting websites

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that was 80% of our traffic.

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So referral traffic, then more or less, right?

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it was being in front of the right people, in the right places at the right

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time in the, uh, when you could actually offer the solution and Google the 20% of

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Google and search in general was a bonus.

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So if you look at it that way, you change your perspective and you

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say, well, I don't rely on Google.

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Google is simply an addition.

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It's an additional amplifier.

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And Chachi PD is exactly the same.

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Yeah.

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look at it as an amplifier of what you should already be doing.

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Do you see that being the same kind of as time goes on in the future as well?

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I would say it's even more the case now with the clo, the closed walled

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gardens is if you let them keep the user, they will keep the user.

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Mm-hmm.

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can get the user be before the user even gets to them, you've won the game.

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True, true, true.

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Do you feel like there's a, um.

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Timeframe right now that we're kind of in like this window in time.

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Two two years.

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Why is this?

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because in two years time, the AI will already have all of the information it

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needs to serve the basic fundamental information funnel that we need as users.

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So let's take an example of Napoleon Bonaparte.

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I'm in France.

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It doesn't need new information about him,

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Right

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so it doesn't go looking for information

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about him.

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So if

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basically AI generated stuff of the knowledge that it already

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has about Napoleon.

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Yeah.

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so if I write an article about Napoleon Bonaparte, I'm throwing my

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time down the down, down the toilet in terms of Google and chat GPT.

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And in two years time, that is gonna be true of every standard

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basic topic in the world.

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Meaning basically all the information has been mined from

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what we know as humans or what has been published, I guess, right?

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Yeah, exactly.

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And so your only in is UpToDate information, football

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scores, great example, and

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information gaps.

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Anything you can teach it that it didn't already know,

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Mm,

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that's what I was curious, like, yeah.

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Information gaps.

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Like defining, so it's, it's information that what we hold

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or maybe a, a perspective of something kind of recent, I guess.

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Define, yeah.

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Information gaps and how that's an opportunity for us.

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Well, um, data numbers and, uh, are super important.

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If I say I've got 9.4 billion data points in Kali Q Pro,

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and I can tell you that 30% of lawyers do not have a knowledge panel.

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That's new information it didn't have, and it will be super enthusiastic.

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Mm. Got it.

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And then today, the three o'clock in the morning thing you were talking about,

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and uh, it's difficult to explain, but I woke up and I thought, wow, okay,

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we are looking at algorithmic harmony.

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I like

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How do we create algorithmic harmony?

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We create a friction free situation for bots on our website and

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within our content generally.

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We create tasty content for algorithms that they want to use,

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and we organize ourselves for the engines so that they can understand

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how to put all the pieces together.

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And it's, it's a bit geeky and I'm sorry, I'm probably expect explaining

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it very badly, but it was literally last night that I thought of it.

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This is new information.

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This is a new perspective on something that everybody already knew.

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Well expand.

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I, I, I love for one, you got me with algorithmic harmony.

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I had to write that down.

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'cause I'm like, that's, that's interesting.

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And it is so algorithmic.

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Harmony in your mind.

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And this is what Yeah.

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Kept you awake probably, or woke you up is so you're reducing, reducing friction for.

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What all of the bots, so we're

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talking what Google ai, all the, you know, open ai, all the stuff that's

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basically looking for information.

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So you're making it easy for people, you're making it tasty

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and interesting for the bots to,

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you know,

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like things

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the algorithms,

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Yeah.

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For the algorithms.

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so the Tasty Party's algorithms is, does the algorithm think that

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your content is tasty and helpful?

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And that would be what, timely stuff, right?

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The information gaps that you mentioned.

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does it serve the purpose of the need of the user?

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Mm-hmm.

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you need to make sure the content you're creating makes the algorithm algorithms

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think, yes, I can serve this to my user and it will be helpful to them.

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That's tasty.

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And then the organizing, please go ahead.

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'cause I'm interested in your, your

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Yeah, I thought you would be,

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no, I mean this is like 18 hours old.

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Right.

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I know.

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And just so everyone knows, that was 3:00 AM You're in France?

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I'm in San Diego, California.

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It's what, past 7:00 PM your time.

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So almost seven 30.

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So it's like you've been up for a while and you're still buzzing.

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So, but yeah.

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The third, so we talked about reducing friction, uh, for the bots.

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Tasty.

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Make it tasty for the algorithms.

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And then organizing this so the engines understand.

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How to put all the pieces together, right?

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Like so how it shows up when people are actually searching for that need

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Yep, you've

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is my take on it.

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That's it.

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Well, that's it.

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So 18 hours old and it's all nailed now.

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Thank you very much, Joe.

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you're very much, well, I'm happy to introduce it.

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I gotta publish this before you go and uh, no, I know you're already

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writing something peachy to it.

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I don't think I will, but No, this is, I think that's a great overview and.

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I guess now this leads me to, because I wanna get to knowledge

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panels and, and the, and how that's important and it's been around, it's

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not like a new thing, but maybe we go back to that and kind of pause for a moment.

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'cause I do wanna get your perspective of what's happening right now in AI and how,

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uh, yeah, just search is, it's similar but changing how we position ourselves and,

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Yeah.

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but let's.

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You know, I want to, I want to tease that for a moment.

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Go to knowledge panels, because that's something that I know is very important.

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I wanna underst, I want just quickly describe what they

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are, they've been around, and

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then how, how they're changing.

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A knowledge panel is Google's understanding of who you are.

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So when it shows a knowledge panel, it says, well, this is the person or the

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company, and this is what I've understood about them, and I am super confident.

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Hmm.

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And it's a great KPI for algorithmic understanding, and that same

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algorithmic understanding applies to every single engine chat, GPT,

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perplexity, Microsoft copilot, Claude.

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If they understand who you are, they will represent you with that

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factual representation that you need for the bottom of funnel clients,

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prospects that you're getting.

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Yes.

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So the knowledge panel right now is a great KPI, because if Google

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understands you, the other AI probably understands you too.

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Because they're all looking at Google as that source of

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information, at least for now.

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But like you said, I mean, Google's been at it since you said what, 97?

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98?

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I think they started in 96, but they incorporated in 98.

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So I used that date because it makes me look.

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Like I was there at the beginning, but they'd actually be going

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two years before I started.

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ah.

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Okay.

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I started SEO in the year Google was incorporated is better than I started

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SE O2 years after Google started.

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I like it's all brandy and positioning,

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Yep, exactly.

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It's what we call it at Kali Cube Claim frame and prove.

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claim frame improve.

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So I claim 27 years.

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I frame it by saying same year Google was incorporated.

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That makes me look impressive.

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And then I prove it with links out to resources on the web that show that.

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So the framing is super important because the difference between I started in

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SEO the year Google was incorporated.

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Brilliant.

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Okay.

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Google.

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Jason, same date.

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I started SE O2 years after Google started actually with their search engine.

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Jason was behind the time.

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Right, right.

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So you get immediate trust and you could prove it and Yeah.

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And, and.

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Off.

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You will.

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That's great.

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I mean, that's, that's a little nugget right there.

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Anyone could just take and use for their own business or

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Yeah, the frame, the framing is super important.

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Whatever's true, whatever is true in your life is incredibly important, but how you

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frame it to serve your current purpose

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is fundamental to people and to algorithms.

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I love that.

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And so the knowledge panel thing, it's interesting because like,

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so everybody's looking at, or you know, everybody meaning these, what?

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There's only like four or five big AI companies really, you know, if you think

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about, and that's what's interesting.

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They're all racing to get all the information and

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beat each

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other.

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Go

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Tell me which four or five you're thinking of.

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Oh, I mean, there's probably more, but yeah.

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You have what Google, you have Microsoft, um, you have anthropic open ai.

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And, uh, I mean, you have, shoot, I mean you have China and all these other,

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but I'd say what Amazon is probably coming

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Yeah.

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No, I, I wasn't, I I didn't mean to put you on the

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No, it's

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Um, but we actually had a situation where right now people are saying 60 to 80%

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of your traffic on your website is bots.

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mm-hmm.

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Right.

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The dead internet theory or whatever, or,

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Yeah.

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And it's rubbish.

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Of

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oh, is it?

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Oh God, we,

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T tell me, tell me, tell me, because

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I'm curious 'cause Yeah.

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it struck me that that can't be true,

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and the kind of subtlety there is, 60% of the files on your website are

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being taken by bots, but only 15%.

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Of the web pages that are digested are by bots

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hmm.

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because they're taking lots of files that people never see.

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CSS, JavaScript, robots, TXT, the XML site map, so on, so forth.

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So if you remove all of that, the number of web pages that are being

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digested is in our case at Kali Cube, 15% because we are an incredibly

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popular bot friendly website.

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In your website, it might be 8%, it might be 6%.

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But be careful about getting caught out in this I or, or the, the, the,

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the headline grabbing clickbait titles.

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Right.

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So bots are crawling your website and they are doing a lot.

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And TikTok is a huge consumer.

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Really

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You said China, it's TikTok.

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it's TikTok.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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I dunno what they're doing.

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I don't have an insight into why.

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But they crawl as much as, if not more than Google and bing

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TikTok does.

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I did not know that.

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Wow.

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So is that just to beef up their own internal search algorithm?

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Right.

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It's gotta be.

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Maybe they're feeding Baidu.

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Maybe they're, they have a plan for the future.

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Maybe they're gonna take over the world.

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I don't know.

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But definitely there is.

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They're huge consumers.

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Got it.

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I didn't know that.

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Learned

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And Amazon are a huge consumer.

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Meta are a huge consumer.

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I missed that.

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So that might be the sixth or seventh then.

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Yeah.

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Meta.

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That's true.

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Good call.

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Yeah.

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we, we found a a, a bot called Petal Bot.

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pedal bot.

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I haven't heard of that.

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No.

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Now me neither.

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I've got no idea what they do, but they're terribly enthusiastic.

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And I mean, I'm curious of your thoughts, but like now with agents or bots,

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everybody can vibe, code or do something.

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I mean, the information is literally out there to anyone in the

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world.

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You know, the power of ai, open ai, it's literally so, um, who

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knows what's getting developed?

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I mean, yeah.

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Right now we have these ones that are really backed by

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either a bunch of investors or

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nations.

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And both, but then you have all these independent players who are

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spinning up things that are also competing in their own thing, right?

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Yeah, and pedal bot are doing something.

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TikTok are doing something, but I don't really know what,

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hmm.

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and we'll see.

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Um, but it's super, super intriguing.

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And I, I, I take it as it's probably intriguing, at least to me, is like,

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well, this is even more of a reason to at least show up in the way that I

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want to get showed up to, or shown to my best potential customers or whoever,

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subscriber viewers, whatever your KPI or your conversion point is, right.

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Right, and, and a really important point to make is that Google Bot

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and Bing bot have been incredibly kind to us over the years.

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Have They.

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really though?

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They render JavaScript.

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They try to figure out what your website looks like when the JavaScript triggers,

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they try not to overload your server.

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They try to chunk down your content.

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They make enormous efforts.

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TikTok, open ai, uh, meta, Amazon literally don't make any effort at all.

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So they're literally like bogging down our own systems because they're trying to

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Yeah.

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And perplexity of being caught.

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Not respecting, uh, instructions saying, don't crawl this part.

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Oh wow.

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So it's now turned into the Wild West and we've been spoiled by Google and

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Bing, and we need to learn now that perplexity will break the rules.

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TikTok will crawl you massively and they don't care about the fact

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that your server is about to crash.

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And that your users are not getting a great experience.

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Amazon, the same method are the same.

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So we we're in a situation now where you're saying, well, we

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actually need to think about this.

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It's not so much am I sharing my information, which you want

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to do, if you want to be present in these AI assistive engines.

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It's do I have the resources and can I afford it?

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Is there anything we can do to prevent or optimize what we're doing so

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they're not gonna take us down and ruin the experience for everybody else?

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Well, if you wanna take control, go through CloudFlare.

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Mm. Mm-hmm.

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They have bot detectors and you can actually exclude bots.

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And so if you're saying, well, I don't want TikTok,

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Yep.

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exclude it.

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Ah, okay.

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So we have a

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And that's a really neat trick.

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So it's basically just setting your your website up so that every

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request comes through CloudFlare

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Yep.

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and then you can control it.

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Yeah, it's cloud flare first, and then it goes to your domain, right?

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And then host and whatnot.

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Exactly,

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and so you, you take control and that then you just need to be careful, is

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that, for example, USA today is saying nobody can take our content because

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we want people to come to our website.

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We don't want Google open AI being perplexity, clawed stealing our content.

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That's fine, but then you have to accept that they're not gonna send you traffic.

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Or you're probably not gonna show up in some of these, uh, AI search.

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Yeah.

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It's, it's an interesting thing.

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Yeah.

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It's a paradigm that like, you know, even with

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TikTok or, or the other bots, you're like.

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Maybe it's a good thing in the future.

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I don't know.

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Do I

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exclude 'em, do I not,

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Well, it's a huge bet that we're all taking.

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mm-hmm.

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If you're a publisher, you're saying, well, I make my money for my content,

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therefore I can't give it to the bots.

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But you are cutting off a source of.

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Traffic and revenue.

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Right.

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If you're a business B2B, B2C, you want the bots to send the people to you, and

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you need to understand that they will only send them to you when the person has

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made the decision at the perfect click.

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Right, and you're showing up in the right way

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Exactly, so you, you end up in it.

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It's a debate in our own heads and it's a debate that we've

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never had to have before, and I would advise every business owner.

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To look at it from their own perspective.

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What makes sense to me?

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Well, it's a business model thing, right?

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Like it's it, or maybe there's a shift in the model that we get to take now

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because of the, the shifts happening

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with Kali Cube, we're a B2B service.

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We help entrepreneurs and their companies turn up in Google and ai.

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We want these bots to build the funnel in their brains and bring people to us.

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And we're actively building that.

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But if I were a publisher who was publishing news, I would be struggling

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with, do I want to share my content with them where they will give the

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answer on their own walled garden?

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Mm-hmm.

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And if I do that.

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Will I lose all the people who come to me and I make my money out of subscriptions

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or adver uh, advertisements, but if I don't, I lose all that traffic.

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I have to find another source.

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Right,

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That's a huge, huge question, and I don't have the answer.

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right.

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I mean, I don't think anybody has a perfect answer right now, but we're

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definitely, I think it's good thought experiments, looking at what maybe is.

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It happened in the past, even though this is kind of totally new.

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I would advise anybody who is.

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Implementing SEO strategies to sit down and ask themselves the fundamental

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questions of where do I get my money from

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Mm

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and talk to somebody smart like myself, for example, about how do I avoid leaking

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and maximize the actual kind of income.

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I think it's very smart and yeah, we, I mean, there's so many indicators that say,

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yeah, two to three years in this kind of

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time span.

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I mean, who knows what the world's gonna be like.

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There'll be, you know, it's, it's gonna change fast.

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It's rapidly, you know, you have things like agents popping up that that will be

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completely change.

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now, and that's a hundred percent it is.

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It's all gonna be brand.

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Mm-hmm.

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And you mentioned agents, and I literally just wrote an article about that

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is AI assistive engines.

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Today is a discussion, it's a funnel that I'm having with my,

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uh, AI assistive engine, be it, uh, Google AI mode, actually PG

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perplexity and so on and so forth.

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Yeah.

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But in the near future, it's gonna be AI agents who do that funnel

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multiple times for each task.

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Yes.

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Yeah.

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they make the decision and I don't know about it.

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So we need to show up in the right way to those machines too.

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Not only the, I mean right now it's the people primarily making the ch the choice

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And it, and in a, in a few years time, it's gonna be the machine

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makes the choice multiple times.

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So your audience is the machine because the audience that you're actually trying

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to reach are just gonna say, well, I got the plane ticket, I got the hotel booked.

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I bought the microphone from Toman, which is something I did last week,

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but I had nothing to do with the actual multiple decision processes

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that the agent went through.

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So AI agent optimization is gonna be a

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Gotcha.

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This is, this is fascinating.

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Jason.

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What?

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Okay.

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Knowledge panel.

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I just wanna close the loop there

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because I feel like I, I do, because I feel like, I think it's you and,

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and also, you know, our mutual buddy, my business partner, Scott Duffy,

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you know, um, I know he is, worked with you for a, a long time now, you know,

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building that up five years.

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There you go.

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So it obviously, and it's working for him.

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Uh, where do people start for the knowledge panel?

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'cause it seems like that is kind

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of, I don't know, it seems like that's the core or the

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most leveraged piece right now.

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Obviously there's more to it,

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Well, if, if you.

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Look at the knowledge panel as the KPI of Understandability,

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Hmm.

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then you're in a really good place because whether it's a knowledge panel

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or it's chat GPT or it's perplexity, these algorithms need to understand who

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you are, what you do, who you serve.

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Yeah.

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If they don't understand that, they can't trust you,

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so you are right.

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That's the foundation.

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The knowledge s the KPI of do the machines understand you.

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And the really simple approach to that is say, okay, right.

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I have an about page on my website that describes who I say I am, who

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I serve, and why I am credible.

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Then from that page, I need to link out to the resources that

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confirm what I'm saying, and I need to get them to link back to

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me confirming that it is indeed me.

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And then you end up with what we call the infinite loop of self corroboration.

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Where the machine comes to your website says, okay, this is

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what Joe Fier says about him.

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This is what Medium says about him.

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This is what this article says about him.

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This is what Twitter says about him.

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This is what LinkedIn says about him, and it all maps out.

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I understand and I'm confident I'll give him a knowledge panel.

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That's the KPI, that's understandability.

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So you're putting signals out there.

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They're all kind of saying the same thing, so it gets a

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picture of you, you are, yeah.

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On the about page, like you said, you are almost like creating this web or this,

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this, um, journey for these bots to go on,

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right.

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That all kind of are saying the same thing.

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No, I love, I love that it's a journey, uh, and it's a very repetitive journey.

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Mm-hmm.

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the algorithm understands by repetition.

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And repetition by trustworthy sources.

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But you have to remember that the go-to source is always you.

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Mm-hmm.

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Hmm.

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And if that's not the case, you've lost the game because you have no control.

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Yeah.

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Well, speaking of control, I'm thinking of websites now and, and you know, 'cause

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you're talking about, well, about page structure of your own website, obviously.

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Now you're talking about other platforms as well that your name shows up on.

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What is one simple fix that someone can make on their website today that

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makes it easier for, uh, Google, but also AI to better understand

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Well, the, the, the, uh, sorry, you said the about page and that's exactly it.

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That might be it.

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So, uh, the Kali Cube process, which is the system we use, is understandability

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credibility deliverability.

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If it doesn't understand who you are, it can't trust you.

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If it doesn't trust you, it will never deliver you.

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Mm-hmm.

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So you need to start with understandability.

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And understandability.

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Is that about page on your website that says, this is who I am, this is who I

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serve, and this is why I am credible.

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Hmm,

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So that's the first place to start.

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that's it.

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No, I love it.

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Yeah, and there's more to it, but yeah.

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That's great.

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Thank you, Jason.

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That's

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But it, it, it, it's actually really simple and it, it's one of those moments

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in life where you say, well, actually I can explain it to the baker downstairs.

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And she understands it in five minutes, create the single source

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of source of truth, which is you

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Yeah.

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make sure that every single source about you around the web corroborates

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what you're saying, link out to it.

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The machine goes backwards and forwards, and it keeps seeing, seeing the same

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message, and you've won the game.

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I like it.

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I mean, logically it's all there, but like you said, it's a process.

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I mean, Gert would, that's why, you know, Gert Mellak, when he talks

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about things, you know, he's got his process and is, it's, um, and I know

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you, so it's, I'm, I'm really excited.

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'cause I know personally I'm going to start the journey with Kali

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Cube and with you and your team.

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You know, Scott and my team are also, we're all working together, so it's

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Yeah, and I think the important thing is, is what you've focused on.

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You keep talking about the knowledge panel and you know,

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I've been doing this so long.

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I'm a bit or knowledge panel bit though, but it is the foundation of everything.

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If the machine doesn't understand who you are, you have no hope.

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You're not even in the game.

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Yeah.

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So if you don't have the knowledge panel on Google, you're not gonna

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be playing the game in Google, in Bing, in Claude, in chat, GPT.

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And that's your foundation.

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You need to start there.

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And it starts with the entity home, which is the about page on your

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website and the corroboration around the web with links that make sure

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that the machine goes through that infinite loop of self corroboration.

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And when I say it like that, it sounds very simple.

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Managing it is quite difficult.

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Yeah.

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Because as human beings, we're a bit messy.

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But that's where you start and you can DIY it

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That's great.

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So, uh, if they don't wanna DDIY it or if they wanna learn more, where

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do they go and find you, Jason.

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well, if you want to DIY it, you go here, Kali cube.com/guides.

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And if you don't, um, reach out to me.

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I'd be happy to help.

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Awesome.

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Yeah, we'll put everything in the show notes, link it up and all that.

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Make it easy.

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So last question, Jason.

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I'm always curious of, and we've kind of talked about it, but like the next

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handful of years, like what's the, what's the thing you are most excited about?

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I mean, you've been excited, you've been

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on fire all day long today.

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I know.

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Um, I'm curious, like with you, I mean, what you said, you

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said there's two years of this.

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Like, does that mean that you're out of a job, Jason in two years or is like.

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Now.

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Ah, I love the question.

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There are, there are a few things that are gonna remain in place is my life is gonna

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change, and the algorithms know that, but if they don't recognize me before that

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two year window, they won't come looking.

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Yep.

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have to make myself, you have to make yourself sufficiently important

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to the machines that they come looking three years from now.

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Yeah, that's the key focus, and anybody who's missed that boat

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is gonna be really struggling.

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So you need to, in the next two years, make sure that you become sufficiently

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important within your niche for the machines to proactively come

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looking for information about you.

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That's it.

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Alright.

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Y'all,

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you know the, you know the procedure.

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Go do it.

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Go do some stuff.

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Definitely go follow Jason.

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What he is doing, I mean, this is, it's very timely stuff.

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That's why we we're talking now and um, yeah, I, next few

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years is gonna be interesting.

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Next, I mean, who, who knows what the future's

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like, but

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isn't it?

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I'm just happy we're here, we're alive and we're experiencing it 'cause.

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Absolutely.

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knows, man.

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All right, Jason, I appreciate you.

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Was this a good like cap to the day?

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I know it started very early for you, but

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Yeah, it, it, it, it's absolutely the perfect end to a day where I started

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the day just going, oh, wow, this is all brilliant and wonderful and delightful,

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and I'm thinking it all through.

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But the foundation is always, does the machine understand who you are, what

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you offer, and to whom does it believe you to be credible as a solution to the

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subset of its users who your audience.

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And does it have the content to be able to deliver you to those people

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for whom you have the perfect solution.

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That's it.

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Yeah.

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Perfect.

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All right, Jason, go get some rest.

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You've been, you've been at it all day long.

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Thanks for hanging out late with me.

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So till next time, we'll do it

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again soon.

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Bye.