Most technical SEO interviews just test memory: you ask what a canonical tag does, you get the textbook line, and you still have no idea whether the person can run a live migration. This episode works through the 20 questions Search Agency uses to hire senior technical SEOs, and the real answers underneath the textbook ones, the case where the rule stops holding, the cheap fix you try first, and what you check before touching anything. It spans crawl budget versus crawl demand, canonicals as hints not directives, robots.txt versus meta robots, fixing "crawled currently not indexed", crawl traps, optimizing for AI Overviews and what LLMs actually read, 301 versus 302, investigating a traffic drop, Core Web Vitals, log file analysis, ecommerce schema, E-E-A-T, duplicate content, pagination, faceted navigation, the biggest mistakes, and what a real technical audit looks like end to end.

Read the full article on the Search Agency blog: https://search.agency/blog/technical-seo-interview-questions

This podcast is hosted by Ridho Putradi S'Gara, founder of Search Agency, the AI Search agency that engineers your brand into the answers AI assistants give your customers.

Note: This episode was generated by Google's NotebookLM based on the original written article from the Search Agency blog.

YouTube is the single most-cited domain in Google's AI Overviews, appearing in close to 30% of them and outciting the next video platform by roughly 200 times. When an AI answer needs to show someone how to do something, it reaches for video. This episode covers what that changes: why video now shows up in searches that used to be all text, what AI search actually reads inside a clip (the transcript, the chapters, the description, not the footage), how video builds topical authority and trust in a way text struggles to fake, SEO for short-form on TikTok and Reels and Shorts, how to get clips cited or embedded in AI answers, when short-form is the wrong bet, and a full walkthrough of one Short optimized end to end.

Read the full article on the Search Agency blog: https://search.agency/blog/how-to-build-video-that-ai-search-actually-cites

This podcast is hosted by Ridho Putradi S'Gara, founder of Search Agency, the AI Search agency that engineers your brand into the answers AI assistants give your customers.

Note: This episode was generated by Google's NotebookLM based on the original written article from the Search Agency blog.

Ask an AI assistant to recommend a company in your category and most of the sources it pulls to describe you are not yours. Running analysis of roughly 25 million citations keeps landing near 84% pointing at earned media and third-party pages rather than anything the brand published itself. This episode takes apart the layer you do not own: why AI trusts other people's sites more than your own, the six tiers of third-party trust from knowledge graphs down to podcast transcripts, why the entity graph has to come before everything else, how review platforms answer the buying questions, what actually gets cited on Reddit, the comparison pages you are not allowed to publish yourself, why each AI engine pulls from a different source pool, a live check across four assistants on the same prompt, the order to build it in, and when this is the wrong first move.

Read the full article on the Search Agency blog: https://search.agency/blog/third-party-authority-ai-search

This podcast is hosted by Ridho Putradi S'Gara, founder of Search Agency, the AI Search agency that engineers your brand into the answers AI assistants give your customers.

Note: This episode was generated by Google's NotebookLM based on the original written article from the Search Agency blog.

The first Total Graph Authority piece was about where to build. This one is about what you are building into. Underneath the three sources sit five structures a model moves through when it decides who to trust: the link graph, the entity graph, the citation graph, the content graph, and the user interaction graph. This episode explains what each one actually is, why the entity graph is the spine that every other graph credits back to, how the three sources map onto the five graphs and why no single source feeds them all, how to diagnose which graph is holding you back from four common symptoms, and an honest note on which of these graphs are documented and which are inference.

Read the full article on the Search Agency blog: https://search.agency/blog/total-graph-authority-the-graphs-underneath

This podcast is hosted by Ridho Putradi S'Gara, founder of Search Agency, the AI Search agency that engineers your brand into the answers AI assistants give your customers.

Note: This episode was generated by Google's NotebookLM based on the original written article from the Search Agency blog.

We ran 100 unbranded travel searches through Google AI Mode and logged every source. It built its answers from 2,558 citations across 1,229 domains, about 26 per answer, and 75% of everything it cited was a guide, a tips piece, or an itinerary, the exact content most teams are quietly cutting. This episode walks through why AI Mode harvests rather than ranks, why the content everyone is trimming is the content it cites (independent travel blogs took 56.8% of citations while tourism boards took 1.2%), why clicks leaving and citations staying are not the same loss, how guides, itineraries, and tips each get pulled, and the shared shape of the pages that get lifted.

Read the full article on the Search Agency blog: https://search.agency/blog/ai-mode-travel-guides-still-perform

This podcast is hosted by Ridho Putradi S'Gara, founder of Search Agency, the AI Search agency that engineers your brand into the answers AI assistants give your customers.

Note: This episode was generated by Google's NotebookLM based on the original written article from the Search Agency blog.

Ask ChatGPT the same question twice and you often get two different answers citing two different sets of sources. Ask Gemini, Perplexity, and Google AI Overviews and the gap widens. That means turning up in one answer proves almost nothing, and one strong channel is not enough. This episode explains Total Graph Authority, the position a brand holds when three independent sources of trust all point at the same company and describe it the same way: first-party authority on your own domain, third-party validation from sites the model already trusts, and social utility that shows you work in practice. We cover why one strong channel loses runs, how to build each source with copyable examples, where the three overlap, the order to build them in, and how to measure whether it is working.

Read the full article on the Search Agency blog: https://search.agency/blog/total-graph-authority

This podcast is hosted by Ridho Putradi S'Gara, founder of Search Agency, the AI Search agency that engineers your brand into the answers AI assistants give your customers.

Note: This episode was generated by Google's NotebookLM based on the original written article from the Search Agency blog.

When an Indonesian asks AI Mode about a mortgage, a savings account, or a credit card, someone's website is being quoted back as the answer. We measured whose. This episode walks through a study of 72 Bahasa Indonesia prompts run three times each through the Google AI Mode API, 216 answers and 2,068 citations across 312 domains. We cover why banks own most of the answer (close to 62% first-party once you add fintech), why the single most-cited site is a comparison platform rather than a bank, how the winners change across the buyer journey with third parties surging at the consideration stage, how loans, savings, and cards each pull a different crowd, which brands get named most and why content libraries beat glossy product pages, and how much the citations move every time you ask.

Read the full article on the Search Agency blog: https://search.agency/blog/google-ai-mode-indonesia-banking-citations

This podcast is hosted by Ridho Putradi S'Gara, founder of Search Agency, the AI Search agency that engineers your brand into the answers AI assistants give your customers.

Note: This episode was generated by Google's NotebookLM based on the original written article from the Search Agency blog.

For about a decade, the keyword cluster was the atom of content planning. But AI Mode queries run roughly three times longer than old searches, and the engine no longer matches a string to ten blue links, it breaks the question into sub-questions, retrieves passages, and assembles an answer. This episode covers the shift to planning in prompt clusters instead: what keyword clusters were good at, what AI Mode changed about the query itself (including citations drifting away from the organic top ten), what a prompt cluster actually is, how to build one from scratch, three worked examples across B2B SaaS, ecommerce, and a local clinic, the content formats that get cited, and why your high-impression low-CTR pages are the fastest win.

Read the full article on the Search Agency blog: https://search.agency/blog/prompt-clusters-vs-keyword-clusters

This podcast is hosted by Ridho Putradi S'Gara, founder of Search Agency, the AI Search agency that engineers your brand into the answers AI assistants give your customers.

Note: This episode was generated by Google's NotebookLM based on the original written article from the Search Agency blog.

A dofollow link from a strong site used to be the most valuable thing you could earn off your own pages. In 2026 there is a real case that a plain, unlinked mention of your brand name does more, at least on the surfaces where buyers now start their research. This episode separates the two signals: why backlinks still move Google rankings while brand mentions are what get you named inside an AI answer, what the 2026 data shows (one study found 78% of AI-cited domains had high unlinked mention volume versus 41% with strong backlink profiles), why domains strong on both are 6.4x more likely to be cited, how AI search actually decides who to mention, how to earn more mentions through digital PR and the platforms that now matter, and how to track your share of the answer.

Read the full article on the Search Agency blog: https://search.agency/blog/brand-mentions-vs-backlinks-2026

This podcast is hosted by Ridho Putradi S'Gara, founder of Search Agency, the AI Search agency that engineers your brand into the answers AI assistants give your customers.

Note: This episode was generated by Google's NotebookLM based on the original written article from the Search Agency blog.

We ran 105 buying-intent travel queries in Bahasa Indonesia through Google's AI Overviews across two days and logged every citation. Instagram was cited 104 times, more than Traveloka, tiket.com, or any other travel platform, and reels were quoted as evidence for prices and packages, not just as profile links. This episode walks through the full dataset: how Instagram works as citation infrastructure, why the AI answer switches off exactly where Google sells its own inventory, how trust queries like "amanah" and "terpercaya" feed a loop nobody is guarding, why your industry does not gate the citation (bank blogs out-ranked tour operators), the shared shape of pages that get lifted, and the confident errors the AI quotes along the way, plus what to do about it by seat.

Read the full article on the Search Agency blog: https://search.agency/blog/travel-seo-ai-overviews-indonesia

This podcast is hosted by Ridho Putradi S'Gara, founder of Search Agency, the AI Search agency that engineers your brand into the answers AI assistants give your customers.

Note: This episode was generated by Google's NotebookLM based on the original written article from the Search Agency blog.