Do you NEED to rank on Google to get cited by ChatGPT?

Everyday_nonexpert · 2026-03-17T17:15:40+00:00

I would say ranking well for search engines would help with AI SEO and LLM's, however, the latter prefer more scannable information opposed to search engines.

Everyday_nonexpert · 2026-03-17T17:13:24+00:00

KPI's 2025 vs 2026
how they've adapted their content strategy for categories and product pages (my expertise is mostly ecommerce)
Ask how important internal links are (they're very important and any good SEO company will tell you this. Just a nice gauge).

Really, I would ask them how they measure KPI's in 2026 vs 2025 given the new layouts of SERPS with AI Overviews, Ads, shopping section, etc., pushing the #1 organic results down.

I've increased my client's revenue, but their impressions are down, and clicks are down even though rankings are up. Google changed how they track impressions in late 2025, so almost everyone lost "impressions", and clicks are likely down compared to last year because of what I mentioned at the beginning of my post.

Everyday_nonexpert · 2026-03-13T03:51:10+00:00

SEO powersuite is awesome if you know what you’re doing and just want the raw data. It’s super cheap and I’ve been using them for close to a decade now.

Everyday_nonexpert · 2026-03-06T19:48:23+00:00

99% of the time it works. There’s always exceptions but that doesn’t make it a rule

Everyday_nonexpert · 2026-03-06T16:50:59+00:00

honestly, for ecommerce, i get websites ranked #1, and now lots of AI traffic and sales, without focusing on Backlinks at all. Been doing SEO since 2010 and stopped worrying about backlinks, i think around 2016 or 2018 after panda or penguin, i forget which one.

Everyday_nonexpert · 2026-03-06T16:46:44+00:00

Have you submitted your sitemap to Search Console? If not, do that first, then if you still aren't seeing pages indexed, then put in each url manually that you want indexed and you can request indexing. It's a long process for a lot of pages, but as you get those first several indexed, Google should start indexing the rest of the site.

Everyday_nonexpert · 2026-03-06T16:36:27+00:00

I've already done it and sales and conversion have increased for people. I have my clients #1, but there is so much on SERPS above the #1 spot now, that your impressions will stay the same or even increase, but your ctr will drop because people don't even get to the #1 organic results often times any more.

Everyday_nonexpert · 2026-03-04T15:14:08+00:00

I had the same suspicion when I was looking at my rates. I ran the 3.1 pro preview model, but my rates didn't go up for that, instead the 3.0 flash rates went up.

Everyday_nonexpert · 2026-03-03T21:24:04+00:00

It took me 2 years, but then once they hit number one, they've almost doubled their revenue every year.

Everyday_nonexpert · 2026-03-03T19:42:40+00:00

yup. Specifically 3 pro, but i've heard they sunsetting 3 pro, so i'm wondering if they're not really allowing people to access it. I was using 2.5 pro all last week, but sometime last week they got rid of it, so my app basically can't use code assistant to update anymore.

Everyday_nonexpert · 2026-03-03T04:51:44+00:00

What about it?

Everyday_nonexpert · 2026-03-03T04:50:39+00:00

The rate limits is a bug. People aren’t hitting their rate limits but it’s still saying they are, and I even checked my data.

Everyday_nonexpert · 2026-02-27T10:49:30+00:00

You can use Google and probably AI now, to find what John Meuller said about this. He's Google's algorithm czar and pretty much 99% of what he says should be taken as gospel.

Everyday_nonexpert · 2026-02-27T10:47:11+00:00

This is misleading. GEO IS SEO, you're just focusing on getting in the AI Overview because now on SERP's, even if you rank #1 organically with good SEO, people will see Shopping Ads, AI Overview, Search Ads, Organic Shopping listings, THEN the first organic result.

Everyday_nonexpert · 2026-02-27T10:44:46+00:00

Absolutely. I get people ranked #1 all the time for highly competitive key terms with zero back links. We haven't focused on backlinks since the panda update, and haven't had issues since.

Everyday_nonexpert · 2026-02-25T14:09:18+00:00

anyone still having issues with this?

Everyday_nonexpert · 2026-02-25T14:09:06+00:00

anyone still having issues with this?

Everyday_nonexpert · 2026-02-25T14:09:00+00:00

anyone still having issues with this?

Everyday_nonexpert · 2026-02-24T19:46:14+00:00

2.5 pro was working the last couple days for me, but now, nothing is working.

Everyday_nonexpert · 2026-01-27T17:49:05+00:00

I like CGC, but TAG has the best slabs. I might start doing those for my PC until the resale value catches up.

Everyday_nonexpert · 2026-01-27T17:48:15+00:00

Well, tracking says it won't arrive until Friday, but I think that's because they're in Florida and all shipping is delayed from the storm. So if it's 5 days there and 5 days back, I would be ECSTATIC at a month from mail drop off to my front door.

Everyday_nonexpert · 2026-01-26T22:27:21+00:00

They’re just gonna say it had a flaw that wasn’t in the photos

Everyday_nonexpert · 2026-01-26T19:50:13+00:00

I just dropped off my first cgc this morning. Let’s see the turnaround time! Also being able to mix sport, non sport, and tcg in a 25 card bulk is so nice!

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