SEO Industry Faces Existential Threat As Search Engines Embrace Generative AI
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Generative AI like ChatGPT is being embraced by search engines, threatening the $68B SEO industry.
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Websites have long used SEO to get higher search rankings, driving traffic and revenue.
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With generative AI, search engines can provide direct text answers instead of lists of links.
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This means users can bypass SEO-optimized pages, making SEO efforts useless.
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The SEO industry may not survive this shift long-term, while search engines adapt their business models.
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