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What happens when search stops being about clicks and starts being about stories, formats, and trusted sources?
In this episode of The Search Session, Gianluca Fiorelli talks with search and AI consultant Louisa Frahm about the changing relationship between SEO, content, and AI search. They explore how to choose the right format for a story, create evergreen content that remains useful in AI-driven search, and navigate Google’s evolving approach to news, Top Stories, and preferred sources.
The conversation also goes inside the newsroom, examining how SEOs and journalists can build trust and collaborate more effectively. Along the way, Louisa and Gianluca discuss what original movies can teach brands about creativity and calculated risks—and why mentorship is always a two-way learning experience.
This is the 82nd episode of: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL_sm3ydVBxdAJ84k2qsH1LkTDbtbdNrGh
Here's what you'll learn in this episode:
👉 Read the full article and explore additional insights:
https://www.advancedwebranking.com/blog/news-content-ai-multimodal-search
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What happens when AI search starts using your emails, private context, and digital footprint to decide which brands to recommend?
In this episode of The Search Session, Gianluca Fiorelli welcomes back Garrett Sussman to explore how SEO is changing in the age of personalized AI search. Garrett shares insights from his Google Personal Intelligence experiment, including how emails influenced visibility by 40%, and digs into brand sentiment, AI-generated content, GEO, relevance engineering, and the emerging challenges of agentic search.
As AI moves beyond traditional rankings and into personalized recommendations, what does it take for brands to stay relevant?
Tune in for a sharp look at where SEO is heading—and why the future of search may depend on much more than search engines.
This is the 81st episode of: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL_sm3ydVBxdAJ84k2qsH1LkTDbtbdNrGh
Here's what you'll learn in this episode:
👉 Read the full article and explore additional insights:
https://www.advancedwebranking.com/blog/brand-discovery-in-personalized-ai-search
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Made with ❤️by Advanced Web Ranking, the people behind the world's most accurate and longest-standing rank tracker.
Get your free 7-day trial and find your true visibility in organic search for any market: https://www.advancedwebranking.com/
Be sure to subscribe for more actionable marketing and SEO tutorials: / @advancedwebranking
What happens when search stops being something people use and becomes something AI agents use on their behalf?
In this episode of The Search Session, Gianluca Fiorelli speaks with digital entrepreneur and keynote speaker Bastian Grimm about what agentic search means for businesses, and what they should be doing about it now.
From AI-ready data, evolving protocols, and machine-readable formats to brand recognition, experimentation, and the future of SEO, they explore how AI could reshape websites, search interfaces, publishing models, and the way brands are discovered.
Bastian offers a pragmatic view of a rapidly changing landscape: rather than chasing every new standard, businesses should focus on reliable data, strong technical foundations, experimentation, and learning what actually works.
This is the 80th episode of: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL_sm3ydVBxdAJ84k2qsH1LkTDbtbdNrGh
Here's what you'll learn in this episode:
👉 Read the full article and explore additional insights:
https://www.advancedwebranking.com/blog/agentic-search-readiness
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Made with ❤️by Advanced Web Ranking, the people behind the world's most accurate and longest-standing rank tracker.
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Is your SEO agency practicing what it preaches to clients?
In this episode of The Search Session, Gianluca Fiorelli talks with SEO consultant Grant Simmons about what it takes to stay visible and relevant as search evolves. They explore agency positioning, technical SEO for AI search, site architecture, internal linking, knowledge graphs, programmatic SEO, and the growing challenge of query drift.
Grant also breaks down what GEO gets wrong, why technical foundations still matter to LLM visibility, and how to scale content without sacrificing quality or topical focus.
A practical, no-fluff conversation about building sites and SEO strategies that search engines, LLMs, and users can actually understand.
This is the 79th episode of: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL_sm3ydVBxdAJ84k2qsH1LkTDbtbdNrGh
Here's what you'll learn in this episode:
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https://www.advancedwebranking.com/blog/technical-debt-query-drift-site-architecture-for-ai-search
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Can AI really understand a brand - or is it still getting confused by conflicting information?
In this episode of The Search Session, Gianluca Fiorelli sits down with semantic SEO and structured data strategists Martha van Berkel and Mark van Berkel to explore how AI is reshaping semantic search, structured data, and the web.
The conversation goes beyond the buzzwords to unpack knowledge graphs, Schema.org, entity management, data governance, schema drift, NLWeb, MCP, and what it takes to build an agent-ready, machine-understandable brand.
Because as search becomes more AI-driven, being visible isn’t enough. AI needs to understand what a brand actually is.
This is the 78th episode of: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL_sm3ydVBxdAJ84k2qsH1LkTDbtbdNrGh
Here's what you'll learn in this episode:
👉 Read the full article and explore additional insights:
https://www.advancedwebranking.com/blog/semantic-data-layer-brand-ai-understand
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Made with ❤️by Advanced Web Ranking, the people behind the world's most accurate and longest-standing rank tracker.
Get your free 7-day trial and find your true visibility in organic search for any market: https://www.advancedwebranking.com/
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What makes B2B marketing truly creative in an age of AI search?
On this episode of The Search Session, Gianluca Fiorelli talks with B2B marketing strategist Lee Odden about creativity beyond content production - from understanding complex buyer information journeys to building trust through creators, influencers, executives, and internal experts.The conversation explores why audience understanding will outlast AI visibility tactics, how B2B brands can turn expertise into influence, why informational content still matters, and how prioritization can turn SEO recommendations into real business impact.
A practical conversation about making B2B marketing more creative, credible, and useful.
This is the 77th episode of: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL_sm3ydVBxdAJ84k2qsH1LkTDbtbdNrGh Here's what you'll learn in this episode:
👉 Read the full article and explore additional insights: https://www.advancedwebranking.com/blog/creativity-in-b2b-marketing
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Get your free 7-day trial and find your true visibility in organic search for any market: https://www.advancedwebranking.com/
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Search isn't just becoming more AI-driven. It's becoming harder to define where a search session actually ends.
In this episode, Will Scott joins Gianluca Fiorelli to explore what it means to stay visible when users move between SERP features, AI answers, query refinements, agents, and an increasingly fragmented set of search surfaces.
This is the 76th episode of: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL_sm3ydVBxdAJ84k2qsH1LkTDbtbdNrGh
Here's what you'll learn in this episode:
👉 Read the full article and explore additional insights:
https://www.advancedwebranking.com/blog/visibility-in-zero-exit-search-experiences
Where to find Will Scott
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Get your free 7-day trial and find your true visibility in organic search for any market: https://www.advancedwebranking.com/
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Structured data is back at the center of SEO conversations, but not always for the right reasons.
In this episode, Jarno van Driel joins Gianluca Fiorelli to separate fact from fiction.
As an active Schema.org contributor, Jarno shares first-hand insights into how the vocabulary evolves, what structured data can realistically achieve, and where many SEOs are getting it wrong.
This is the 75th episode of: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL_sm3ydVBxdAJ84k2qsH1LkTDbtbdNrGh
Here's what you'll learn in this episode:
👉 Read the full article and explore additional insights:
https://www.advancedwebranking.com/blog/structured-data-and-schema-in-age-of-llms-and-agents
Where to find Jarno van Driel
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What happens when search is no longer just Google?
In this episode of The Search Session, Gianluca Fiorelli is joined by UK-based digital strategist and technical SEO Alex Moss to explore how discovery is fragmenting across search engines, AI tools, and social platforms.
They dive into agentic commerce, the evolving role of Schema, structured data, WebMCP, semantic drift, and whether GEO is simply the next phase of SEO or the start of something entirely new. A fast-paced conversation packed with practical insights into building websites that are ready for both people and AI agents.
This is the 74th episode of: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL_sm3ydVBxdAJ84k2qsH1LkTDbtbdNrGh
Here's what you'll learn in this episode:
👉 Read the full article and explore additional insights:
https://www.advancedwebranking.com/blog/agentic-commerce-llm-readiness
Where to find Alex Moss
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Get your free 7-day trial and find your true visibility in organic search for any market: https://www.advancedwebranking.com/
Be sure to subscribe for more actionable marketing and SEO tutorials: / @advancedwebranking
What happens to SEO when websites are no longer built just for people?
In this episode of The Search Session, Gianluca Fiorelli sits down with technical SEO consultant Alfonso Moure to explore how AI is reshaping search, crawling, e-commerce, and the web itself.
From custom SEO tools and log file analysis to agentic commerce and AI-powered buying, Alfonso shares practical insights into why technical SEO, developer collaboration, and machine-readable websites are becoming more important than ever. If you want to understand where the agentic web is heading, this conversation is one to watch.
This is the 73rd episode of: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL_sm3ydVBxdAJ84k2qsH1LkTDbtbdNrGh
Here's what you'll learn in this episode:
👉 Read the full article and explore additional insights:
https://www.advancedwebranking.com/blog/technical-seo-for-agentic-web
Where to find Alfonso Moure
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