222: AI Visibility Is a Vanity Metric with Wil Reynolds
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Wil Reynolds discusses the pitfalls of tracking AI visibility as a metric and emphasizes the importance of trust over visibility.
Wil Reynolds, founder of Seer Interactive, shares how losing 80% of organic traffic actually revealed that his team had been tracking the wrong metrics for years. We get into why AI visibility is a vanity metric, how 44% of LLM users include brand names in their prompts, the real security risks of wrong phone numbers in AI answers, and why trust (not visibility) is the only moat that matters. Chapters 00:00 - 80% traffic drop, pipeline went up06:43 - The pressure of experimental channels with...
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