Google's AI Optimisation Guide: The Funeral of AEO Theatre

Google's AI Optimisation Guide: The Funeral of AEO Theatre

Google's official AI Search guidance confirms that AI Overviews and AI Mode are grounded in core Search systems. Here is what matters, what does not, and why AEO theatre is not strategy.

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HCU, thin content and the myth of word count

HCU, thin content and the myth of word count

A few SEO arguments sound right because they are pointing at a real problem, but they still miss the thing sitting in the middle. HCU was not a word-count update, and short content is not automatically thin content. But that does not mean thin content is a myth, or that Google has no way to judge usefulness. The real issue is low-added-value content, the kind that has the shape of expertise, but none of the scar tissue.

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