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Why SEO as we know it is dead (shocking data)

Google VP confirms major shift in search behavior

Neil Patel and I just broke down why "Search Engine Optimization" is transforming into "Search Everywhere Optimization" - and what this means for 2025.

Here's the reality we uncovered:

  • In 2020, 98% of people used Google for answers

  • Today? Only 61% start their search there

  • The rest? They're split between social media (17%) and AI chatbots (30%)

That’s why, in this keynote, you'll discover:

  1. Why community is becoming the new SEO (with real traffic data)

  2. The exact results from our 68-website AI content experiment

  3. How voice search is quietly taking over (and why Amazon's latest move changes everything)

  4. Where the actual ROI is coming from (hint: not where most spend their time)

  5. And much more

This isn't theory - we're sharing real data from thousands of websites.
-Eric Siu