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LLMs

Sep 7, 2026

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2 min read

LLMs

You can't optimize the model itself; the leverage is what an LLM retrieves and cites at query time, not what it already knows.

Amanda Johnson
Kevin Indig
Amanda Johnson, +1

Foundations

NLPs

Sep 7, 2026

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1 min read

NLPs

NLP is the technology that decides whether a machine understands what your page is about, and it can still get it wrong.

Amanda Johnson
Kevin Indig
Amanda Johnson, +1

Foundations

Relevance engineering

Sep 7, 2026

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2 min read

Relevance engineering

Google and LLMs increasingly judge you on brand demand and authority, which makes engineering relevance the real job.

Amanda Johnson
Kevin Indig
Amanda Johnson, +1

Foundations

Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG)

Sep 7, 2026

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1 min read

Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG)

Retrieval-augmented generation exists to reduce generative AI's biggest risk: Hallucination.

Amanda Johnson
Kevin Indig
Amanda Johnson, +1

Foundations

SEO RFP

Sep 7, 2026

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1 min read

SEO RFP

The quality of the proposals you get back matches the quality of the RFP you send.

Foundations

Time to value

Sep 6, 2026

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2 min read

Time to value

The clicks that still come through are higher intent and harder to earn, so wasting them on a slow landing experience is expensive.

Amanda Johnson
Kevin Indig
Amanda Johnson, +1

Foundations

AI tokens

Aug 21, 2026

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1 min read

AI tokens

When you can categorize 20,000 keywords for under $20, the low unit cost of a token is the reason.

Amanda Johnson
Kevin Indig
Amanda Johnson, +1

Foundations

Training data

Jul 6, 2026

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2 min read

Training data

LLMs are biased by training data, so brands established before a model's cutoff carry an authority advantage newer entrants can only close through retrieval.

Amanda Johnson
Kevin Indig
Amanda Johnson, +1

Foundations

Data corpus

May 4, 2026

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2 min read

Data corpus

The data corpus shapes which answers users see and which brands get visibility.

Amanda Johnson
Kevin Indig
Amanda Johnson, +1

Foundations

Are LLMs and NLPs the same?

May 4, 2026

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2 min read

Are LLMs and NLPs the same?

Understanding the distinction between these two concepts helps you recognize that your AI SEO work and content optimization strategies need to account for different levels of language processing.

Amanda Johnson
Kevin Indig
Amanda Johnson, +1

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