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  1. On "When AI Creates Tons of Content, Trust Becomes the Strategy [MAICON 2026]"

    Pulizzi's right that volume without trust is just noise, but the framing misses what actually matters: you can't fake trust at scale, so teams treating AI as a content factory are already dead. The real play isn't "add trust as a strategy" on top of mass production—it's…

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  2. On "Traffic Is Down—Now What? Marketing Success In the Age of AI"

    The premise that Google traffic decline is a structural problem you need to "future-proof" against misses the actual issue: you probably haven't changed your strategy in three years while the search landscape has fundamentally shifted. Generic traffic growth isn't the goal…

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  3. On "Google AI Hates Long Form Content"

    This is clickbait dressed as insight, and it misses what's actually happening with Google's ranking signals. Google doesn't hate long-form content—it hates long-form content that wastes your time, pads with filler, or delays the answer you came for. The algorithmic preference…

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