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My Reply to my good friend and supporter Suresh (@bedigisure), Founder of the AISO Blog (aiso.blog) and Best AI Brands (bestaibrands.com/andreas-chr…): The core reason of why top 10 organic rankings no longer deliver the same traffic and results they did 18 months ago boils down to one fundamental shift that Google downplays: AI Overviews aren’t just another search feature. They’re a completely different product that quietly rewrites the economics of ranking. Here’s the breakdown, pulled straight from the logic in my previous post (Google's AI Guide: It’s All Still SEO): 1. AI Overviews collapse the old Rank → Click → Traffic Funnel. In the pre-AIO world (roughly pre-late 2024), landing in the top 10 (especially positions 1–3) meant users had to click your page to get the full answer. That click was the currency. Now, Google’s AI Overviews synthesize the answer right at the top of the results. For millions of informational, how-to, comparison, and “what is” queries, the user gets what they need without ever leaving Google’s page. Even if your site is the #1 result and cited in the AIO, the click-through rate drops dramatically. The ranking is still there... but the traffic isn’t. That’s the “reshapes the value of rankings” point my post makes. 2. Google frames it as “evolution of SEO” because it’s convenient for them. Google says: “Just keep doing traditional SEO + add some AI optimization and you’re golden.”. The reality though is different. They’ve turned their search engine into a hybrid answer engine. They keep the user on Google longer (higher engagement metrics for them), while the organic results below the AIO become secondary or even decorative. It’s technically still SEO (crawlability, structure, E-E-A-T, entity clarity all still matter), but the reward for doing it well has been devalued for anyone whose business model relies on website traffic. 3. GEO vs Google’s AI Optimization: different games, different payoffs GEO (Generative Engine Optimization) shines for brand awareness on non-Google platforms (ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude, etc.) because those tools are built to generate full responses and often cite or reference sources prominently. Google’s version keeps you inside their walled garden. They control the narrative, the citations, the formatting, and (most importantly) whether the user ever leaves their page. That’s why GEO feels more rewarding for visibility in third-party AI, while Google’s AI optimization feels like it’s mostly helping Google, not you. Bottom Line The question isn’t “Are we still doing SEO?” The question is: Does position #1–10 still move the needle on traffic and business impact the way it used to? The market’s observed reality is No, not at the same level. The fundamentals still matter for visibility, but the traffic multiplier that made top organic positions so valuable has been quietly gutted by AI Overviews. That’s the inconvenient truth Google’s framing tries to gloss over. It’s not that rankings are dead. It’s that the payout for ranking has changed, and brands that treat AIOs as just another feature are the ones watching their traffic flatline while they chase the same old metrics. #SEO #GEO #GoogleSearch #AI

The evolution of search right now is wild! GEO has its place, but within Google’s ecosystem, optimizing for AI is really the natural evolution of SEO, not a replacement for it. Core fundamentals like crawlability, proper structure, genuinely helpful content, and strong entity clarity remain essential. That’s why GEO shines more for brand awareness in non-Google AI platforms and LLMs. I’m not against GEO, it brings unique advantages in content style, context, and depth. However, from Google’s standpoint, they’re essentially positioning AI optimization as just the next chapter of traditional SEO. Technically they’re right, but it’s also a convenient, self-serving perspective. Of course they’d describe AI Overviews as simply another search feature rather than a fundamentally different product that reshapes the value of rankings. For brands, the real question isn’t what we call it. It’s whether landing the top 10 organic position today actually delivers the same traffic and impact it did just 18 months ago. #SEO #GEO #GoogleSearch #AI