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- The $68B SEO industry just died
The $68B SEO industry just died
(here's what's next)
Just dropped a bombshell video that's going to change how you think about traffic generation forever.
The data doesn't lie:
In 2020, 98% of people used search engines to find answers.
Today? That number has plummeted to 61%.
The shift is seismic.
17% now use social media for answers…
30% rely on AI chatbots…
But here's the wild part: Google traffic isn't declining.
In fact, it's growing - from 100% to 109.83% since 2020 (analyzed across 36,000 websites).
The old playbook is dead.
But the new one is even more powerful.
I break down exactly what's working now:
Why Reddit just gained 700M monthly visitors…
The surprising truth about AI-generated content (with real data)…
How communities are becoming the new SEO (with case studies from Shopify and HubSpot)…
The exact automation workflows we're using at Single Grain…
Plus, I reveal the four pillars we're building our agency on for 2025 and beyond.
To traffic that converts,
Eric Siu