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Ian Lurie

@ianlurie.bsky.social
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Cynical idealist. Digital marketer. Dungeons & Dragons player. Writes over at ianlurie.com. he/him

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Ian Lurie @ianlurie.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
The difference between a Claude skill and a Claude project? Claude is the kitchen. Skills are utensils. Projects are cookbooks. I wrote a post about it: www.ianlurie.com/ai/claude-sk...
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Claude Skills vs Projects, Explained
Here’s my analogy: Claude is the kitchen. Skills are utensils. Projects are cookbooks.
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Ian Lurie @ianlurie.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
Seems like every AI model has a different vocabulary. A "skill" on Claude is a "Gem" on Gemini, etc. etc. I have a little cheat sheet I use, and I turned it into a page. Feel free to steal (with appropriate citation) as needed. www.ianlurie.com/ai-model-che...
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AI Model Cheat Sheet: Claude, ChatGPT, and Gemini
A side-by-side glossary of what Claude, ChatGPT, and Gemini call the same features. Skills, Gems, GPTs, agents, projects — and which platform has what.
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Ian Lurie @ianlurie.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
For folks who couldn't be at #seoweek, or for a refresher: I've put together a complete guide to Teaching The Shit Out Of Everything. It's our secret marketing weapon. Provide frictionless, expert learning & you'll earn the trust of potential customers. www.ianlurie.com/teach-everyt...
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Ian Lurie @ianlurie.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
Coming up with random encounters for Monday's game and cackling to myself. #dungeonsanddragons
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Ian Lurie @ianlurie.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
If you use the content generation tool recently intro'd by a certain provider, you'll get the results you deserve.
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Ian Lurie @ianlurie.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
If you still fly the Confederate flag, I would like to point out that your guy surrendered 161 years ago today.
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Ian Lurie @ianlurie.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
I'm speaking at SEO Week 2026! April 27-30, NYC. I dunno about my content, but I absolutely, 100% guarantee there will be capybara.
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Ian Lurie @ianlurie.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
DM: You see four people in robes, walking w/ a cow. They're talking to the cow. Me: We better steer clear. Get it? Get it? DM: (Clicks Zoom mute button)
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Ian Lurie @ianlurie.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
Anyone else seeing this screwy report format in Google Search Console?
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Ian Lurie @ianlurie.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
I resorted to AI, I admit. I wanted to capture the conclusion of last night's game. The ranger, broken and bloodied, was carried off by an undeniably smug red dragon. Now the party's going to have to track him down. In the dragon's lair. That's life at level 17...
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Ian Lurie @ianlurie.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
@randfish.bsky.social's findings about AI prompts and prompt visibility tracking are... not what I expected. You CAN get useful data, but it's a numbers game. With infinite prompt variability & probability-driven results, this is NOT like SERP rankings data. Read this: sparktoro.com/blog/new-res...
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NEW Research: AIs are highly inconsistent when recommending brands or products; marketers should take care when tracking AI visibility - SparkToro
The Problem: For the last few years, companies have been investing inordinate sums into AI tracking and AI visibility for their brands and products.
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Ian Lurie @ianlurie.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
Instead of trying to keep up with the hype, stick to one simple rule: Build for bots, create for humans. Build infrastructure that supports discoverability across all platforms. Create multimodal content that delivers exactly what your human audience needs. www.ianlurie.com/digital-mark...
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Digital Marketing's Golden Rule: Build for Bots, Create For Humans
If you want to shut out the noise, stick to one principle: Build for bots, create for humans. Build infrastructure that supports discoverability across all platforms, from social media to search to AI...
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Ian Lurie @ianlurie.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
Talia Wolf wrote this great piece about 2026 marketing strategies, with input from 17 brilliant marketers. Plus me. getuplift.co/battle-teste...
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Forget predictions. 18 marketers share their battle-tested strategies for 2026
18 experts share the marketing strategies they're doubling down on in 2026. 18 experts, 18 different strategies for success
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Ian Lurie @ianlurie.bsky.social · 30/12/2025
If you're doing parasite SEO and link injection, may I suggest not bragging about it? #SEO
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Aleyda Solis @aleyda.bsky.social · 29/12/2025
🚨 The #SEOFOMO Organic Traditional & AI Search Trends for 2026 is here! The most comprehensive, no-fluff resource to learn about and reference the top organic search challenges, expectations, and actions for 2026, based on responses from 60+ senior SEOs. Read: hub.seofomo.co/surveys/orga...
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 22/12/2025
BREAKING: WATCH the full 60 Minutes CECOT segment here. This was sent to me anonymously. It appears to be the segment CBS' Bari Weiss killed. www.muellershewrote.com/p/watch-the-...
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WATCH: The 60 Minutes CECOT Segment
I was sent the CECOT segment anonymously in a group chat.
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Ian Lurie @ianlurie.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
The year in reviews are getting outta hand, guys.
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Ian Lurie @ianlurie.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
Next service that offers me a 2025 lookback gets a virtual punch in the face.
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Ian Lurie @ianlurie.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
Best Buy KNOWS how to hide the unsubscribe link. This is next-level skill:
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Ian Lurie @ianlurie.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
MeasureU invited me to talk about AI-driven SEO workflows. So I did - the audience was great, and I had virtual snacks. Here are the slides, the workflow Markdown, and some other somewhat-random links. ianlurie.me/ai-seo-workf...
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Ian Lurie @ianlurie.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
I saved what remains of my frayed sanity and used AI to generate ALT text for thousands of images. Then I wrote a post about it: www.ianlurie.com/digital-mark...
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Using AI to generate ALT text for 27,000 images
Writing ALT text sucks. Writing ALT text for 27,000 images is enough to send me right off the Cliffs Of Insanity. I got AI to do the work for me. Here's how.
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Ian Lurie @ianlurie.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
When the DM is a dice goblin…
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Ian Lurie @ianlurie.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
All of you talking breathlessly about GEO and then telling me your big tactic is to create better, more detailed content and cloaked AI-bot-only pages are making me pray for an asteroid that much harder.
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Ian Lurie @ianlurie.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
Might write a post about using Claude Vision to generate ALT attributes for 27,000 images. Is that in the that's-not-news category, or would folks find it useful?
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Rand Fishkin @randfish.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
DONATE here: www.sleepout.org/participants... Next week, I'm chipping in $6,500 and sleeping outside in the freezing Philly cold w @wilreynolds.bsky.social, not b/c I want to (dear god I am not built for sleeping outside in a cardboard box 😅🥶), but b/c it's important. Would 💗 your support
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Ian Lurie @ianlurie.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
Need recommendations, folks: I'm looking for an eye-level web conferencing camera - one that makes it so I'm not staring into the void when I talk. Anyone had good luck w/ a particular product/setup?
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Ian Lurie @ianlurie.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
I have yet to see a single GEO/AI optimization "blueprint" that would actually work.
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Ian Lurie @ianlurie.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
@not-a-robot.com just launched an AI Transparency page. You can learn about the system prompts for each of the major AIs and win your next argument with know-it-all family members. not-a-robot.com/ai-transpare...
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When AI transparency is not given, it must be taken.
We deserve AI transparency. This is a collection of summaries based on AI Prompt Leak Repo created by Gemini 2.5 Pro. Each doc gives you a summary of assertions and functionalities for the model, al...
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Ian Lurie @ianlurie.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
Advanced SEO stuff gets me inspired. Then I work on a client site and have to persuade their developers that no, 302-redirecting all broken links back to the home page is not a good idea.
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Ian Lurie @ianlurie.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
Love this piece about knowledge graphs and ecommerce by @gfiorelli1.bsky.social, except that he slandered me: I, too, love dioramas and beautiful minis. www.iloveseo.net/transforming...
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How to Create an Intelligent Store: Transforming E-commerce with Knowledge Graphs, Search Intelligence, and AI Agents
Explore Ecommerce Agentic Search and its real-world applications in niche markets like tabletop miniature painting.
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Ian Lurie @ianlurie.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
Me, putting Claude Code to good use.
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Ian Lurie @ianlurie.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
AI can't do content audits, OK? You CAN build a pretty nifty assistant, though, that helps you do audits better. I built one using Claude, ScreamingFrog, Zapier, and Google Sheets. You can read how (and how AI drives me nuts) here: www.ianlurie.com/content/audi...
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How to: Audit existing content using ScreamingFrog and AI
You can’t build an AI content auditor. You can build an AI content audit assistant that analyzes your site’s existing content, traffic data, and crawl data for opportunities. I’ll show you how I do it...
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Ian Lurie @ianlurie.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
AI is an assistant. Not a practitioner. All the feckless AI "thought leadership" that has major corporations firing exceptional talent start with one wrongheaded idea: That AI can DO things. It can't DO things. It can help US do things. Please, Alfred implores you. Figure it out.
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Ian Lurie @ianlurie.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
That moment I edit functions.php and my site doesn't crap out.
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a man wearing glasses and a suit is making a face
ALT: a man wearing glasses and a suit is making a face
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Ian Lurie @ianlurie.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
I still get the best blog comments:
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Ian Lurie @ianlurie.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
I sincerely, truly, really want to say, "AIs use LLMs.txt for grounded results." I've seen no evidence. And if I ask the AIs, they say...
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Ian Lurie @ianlurie.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
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snoopy is dancing in front of a red background and saying amen !
ALT: snoopy is dancing in front of a red background and saying amen !
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Ian Lurie @ianlurie.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
Thirty years ago, I started in marketing. AMA
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an elderly woman in a blue jacket is holding her chest and saying `` old but still lit '' .
ALT: an elderly woman in a blue jacket is holding her chest and saying `` old but still lit '' .
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Ian Lurie @ianlurie.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
That feeling when a client adopts your messaging suggestions...
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a cat is laying on a dog bed in front of a fireplace
ALT: a cat is laying on a dog bed in front of a fireplace
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Ian Lurie @ianlurie.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
I crashed @gfiorelli1.bsky.social's podcast and talked about chunking, why we can't use maps anymore, the difference between discoverability and value, and why SEO is dead. OK, I didn't say that last part. But I made ya look. www.advancedwebranking.com/blog/build-v... Also, my god, that photo.
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SEO Post-AI: Build Value, Measure Lift | Ian Lurie
Listen to Ian Lurie's SEO insights post-AI: using AI as a collaborator, chunking optimization, quick performance wins, and lift-based measurement strategies.
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Ian Lurie @ianlurie.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
If removing ?num=100 really generated this swing, scrapers were hitting Google a LOT harder than I thought. This is aggregate clicks and impressions data for some of my biggest clients. Look at the drop starting September 9:
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Andy Carvin @acarv.in · 16/09/2025
@archive.org preserved the original study, which you can find here. web.archive.org/web/20250911...
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Ian Lurie @ianlurie.bsky.social · 23/08/2025
Uhm. Sure you’re all gonna tell me this isn’t a big deal, but history says otherwise. www.foxnews.com/politics/nat...
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National Guard mobilizing in 19 states amid immigration, crime crackdown
Up to 1,700 National Guard troops will mobilize across 19 states to support Trump's immigration crackdown, with Texas hosting the largest presence.
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Ian Lurie @ianlurie.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
This piece by the iPullRank team is a must-read guide. It's also a great example of good typography, so if you're designer w/ zero interest in AI, you should at least take a look: ipullrank.com/ai-search-ma...
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The Evolution of Information Retrieval: From Lexical to Neural
From keywords to neural retrieval, covering embeddings, transformers, and multimodal models shaping modern search optimization.
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Ian Lurie @ianlurie.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
I wrote a whole post about content audits and massive AI models. I'm a huge believer and adopter, particularly for content assessments. Add it to your workflow. Don't REPLACE your workflow. BTW: This is my "stop it" face. www.ianlurie.com/content/use-...
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Use AI to Improve Content Audits (not perform them)
General-purpose AI can't perform content audits. It can, however, improve them. Here's how.
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Ian Lurie @ianlurie.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
Gianluca Fiorelli gives us yet another super-detailed AI and SEO walkthrough. Love this stuff: www.iloveseo.net/what-framewo...
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What framework to use for increasing visibility in AI Search
Discover how to boost your visibility. Align content for search engines and AI to captivate audiences and grow your brand.
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Ian Lurie @ianlurie.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
Finally getting around to playing with @screamingfrog.co.uk's LLM API integration. My goodness, that's cool.
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Ian Lurie @ianlurie.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
Ah, yes, the first "GEO" toolset where the key feature is... generation of llms-full.txt.
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Ian Lurie @ianlurie.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
If you're looking for fast, easy image compression with a really cool name, try Squoosh. I recorded a quick how-to: www.ianlurie.com/digital-mark...
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How to: Compress Images With Squoosh
5 megabyte images kill kittens. And capybara pups. And your users’ will to live. Fortunately, there’s an easy image compressor: Squoosh.app. The name alone makes it worth a try, right?! You can compr...
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Ian Lurie @ianlurie.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
OK all you vibe coders: Security is a thing. "Adhere to security best practices. Don't place any API keys, password, or other sensitive information in public repositories or accessible code" is a good STARTING point. For the love of all that's right in the universe, don't launch what you don't know.
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