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AI can build a great-looking website—but when everyone uses the same tools, everything starts to look the same. We’re breaking down the telltale signs of an AI-built design and how to make sure your website still feels unmistakably yours.

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Adding more content is the default answer to flat search traffic. It's rarely the fastest one. Lance walks through an old-school tactic: open Google Search Console, find the high-intent queries where you already rank between positions 11 and 30, and rebuild that page until it deserves page 1.

He covers what to look for in the queries report, how to tell buying intent from informational noise, the rebuild checklist (proof, answers, mobile, calls to action, internal links, title tags), and why marking the date of every change matters more than most people assume.

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Marketing work happens ten times faster than it did two years ago. Results have not followed. Lance breaks down the gap between activity, output, and outcome, and why the default response to AI-driven capacity is the wrong one.

He covers why production is becoming abundant while trust, proof, and relationships are not, five places to reinvest reclaimed time, and how deciding what should be made matters more than how quickly it gets made.

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68% of US Google searches now end without a click. On this episode of Marketing Momentum, Avalanche founder Lance Beaudry makes the case that the headline stat is misleading and that your website matters more in 2026, not less.

Lance walks through why zero-click searches often lead to a click a moment later, why your business needs the right clicks rather than every click, and how a website made for humans tends to serve machines well too. 

He closes with five questions to test your most important pages, plus the difference between adding content and adding context.

The goal was never to win every click. It is to earn the right ones and make them count.

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Most companies abandon a message right when the market is starting to learn it. Lance explains why, using the classroom routine his four-year-old picked up in three days, and walks through how to choose one core idea and reinforce it across every page and touchpoint a buyer encounters. He also covers the gap between hearing a message, understanding it, and being ready to act on it. 

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A website that looks good and a website that works are two different things. Lance breaks down the difference between UI and UX using an analogy Jordan Grooters shared from Nielsen Norman Group, then walks through a two-layer audit you can do on your own site this week. 

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You can't edit an AI Overview, but you can improve what it reads.

Lance opens with a client screenshot and one line: "This isn't true." Google had confidently told searchers a service was available at 2,000+ locations with no referral required. Nobody at the company wrote that claim, and no competitor published it. Google filled a gap in the source material with the most reasonable-sounding answer.

This episode covers where those gaps come from, why submitting feedback to Google rarely changes anything, and how to rewrite the pages that made the wrong answer sound possible.

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The companies that win are not always the ones with the biggest budgets.

In this episode, Lance draws on 12 years of strategy meetings to describe what separates companies with momentum from companies that stall. You will hear the five patterns that make progress difficult, the question our best clients ask, and why evidence-based experiments beat waiting for certainty.

You will walk away with an exercise you can run this week on the one improvement your team has been talking about for months.

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What phrase has Lance heard most in 12 years of running an agency? "I wish we would have started sooner."

In this episode, Lance breaks down why website opportunities sit untouched for years and what to do instead of a giant yearly redesign. He walks through the quarterly rock approach: one meaningful website improvement every 90 days, with an owner and a deadline. From service pages to FAQs to case studies, he shows how small projects add up.

You will leave with a simple way to improve your website four times a year and a list of rocks you can start this quarter.

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The most valuable marketing often starts after someone becomes a customer.

A few weeks ago, my family and I were invited to a customer appreciation night at a Whitecaps game. The company that financed my house covered tickets, food, and welcomed the whole family. They weren't selling anything. They just wanted to say thanks. I left feeling appreciated, and now I'll happily refer them.

If you want that same kind of loyalty, keep showing up for the people who already trust you. A few ways to do it:

• A customer-only newsletter
• Customer events and experiences
• Helpful updates and resources
• Content that helps them get more from what they bought

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