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SEO in the age of AI and the future of link building: a conversation with Dixon Jones, of Inlinks


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Kevin Lee interviews Dixon Jones, CEO of Inlinks, a company that has developed the first entity-based Semantic SEO tool. Kevin and Dixon trade notes on current developments in SEO with a focus on the significant impact that AI is already having in the space. They cover many topics in our talk, including:

- The degree to which traditional SEO link building strategies will remain viable.

- How Dixon’s current project, Inlinks -- an SEO technology that focuses on entities instead of words –provides value.

- How LLMs are voraciously ingesting content across the public web, including YouTube transcripts, and their continuing hunger for additional human-generated content.

- How forward-looking SEOs have moved from a keyword-centric mentality to a topic-centric focus.

- The wisdom of making one’s brand closely aligned with the exact same things that one’s customers are interested in.

- How Google Suggest can be used to generate new content ideas by analyzing related search terms and their semantic context.

- The importance of identifying the relationship between the person talking and their area of expertise in order to estimate this individual’s authority and credibility.

- The efficacy of applying a “Barnacle SEO” strategy in today’s search environment, where LLMs and single-result search engines such as Perplexity are growing more important.

- The potential for LLMs to successfully disambiguate certain terms (such as “Mustang,” which may indicate a vehicle, a fighter aircraft, or a type of horse).

- The fact that today’s current generation of AI-generated content checkers often fail to perform correctly.

- The degree to which blockchain technology may have a role in authenticating content in the future.

- How companies such as Adobe may be in a better position to survive potential copyright infringement lawsuits related to AI, given that the images used to train its LLM have all been licensed.

- The dubious wisdom of attempting to quarantine one’s content against LLM ingestion.

- How a new generation of JavaScript-based SEO tools may be able to implement needed site changes rather than merely point them out.

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