There is no magic SEO trick to force your way into ChatGPT, Gemini, or Google AI Overviews.

If you're looking for a technical hack to save your traffic from the AI search collapse, stop. It doesn't exist.

Here's the reality: AI Overviews don't care about your optimization tweaks. They care about whether your content is actually unique and worth citing.

Broad, generalized content is lost in the new landscape. AI can summarize general knowledge instantly without ever sending a reader to your site.

In our latest episode of The Paywall Podcast, Pete sits down with James Baldacino, AI SEO expert at Ellipsis and our fractional CMO, to break down exactly how AI engines choose who to cite and who to ignore.

The full breakdown is in this week's episode:

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Prefer to read the breakdown? We published a comprehensive survival guide summarizing the exact playbook discussed in the episode.

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