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I VOTED FOR KAMALA MAGA = Morons Are Governing America FTR, I am a fundamentalist Christian SEO Theorist, Tolkien scholar. I do not support Netanyahu or his policies […] 🌉 bridged from ⁂ c.im/@michael_martinez, follow @ap.brid.gy to interact

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Michael Martinez :verified: @michael-martinez.c.im.ap.brid.gy · 8h

When AI Fetches Your Content, Is That A Website Visit? [ Summary ] When AI systems fetch information from your Website, those requests may reflect human information needs without representing actual human visits. Learn to distinguish AI crawling from targeted fetching, understand what server […]

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Michael Martinez :verified: @michael-martinez.c.im.ap.brid.gy · 23h

I published this article last week. It explains the scope of the rogue traffic problem that has swept across the Web since early 2025 (as best I can understand it). #analytics #crawling #seo #ai #webhosting #botnami […] [Original post on c.im]

A swarm of drones dodge anti-aircraft fire under the words 'The Botnami Is Changing How Websites Must Defend Themselves.'

Michael Martinez :verified: @michael-martinez.c.im.ap.brid.gy · 20/10/2026

If you're still crawling your own sites for audits, you're doing it wrong. You should be pulling the database and auditing THAT. ALWAYS look at what is published from the INSIDE, not from the outside. Crawling misses a lot of stuff. Save the crawling for verification. #seo #analytics #auditing […]

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Michael Martinez :verified: @michael-martinez.c.im.ap.brid.gy · 19/10/2026

Just because you see an AI bot user-agent in your server log files doesn't mean it's "crawling" your Website. The difference between crawling and targeted fetching is important. #seo #ai #analytics

Michael Martinez :verified: @michael-martinez.c.im.ap.brid.gy · 17/10/2026

"...if not for a query, what is triggering [AI summaries]?" The trigger is the context of the query - who is asking, how they are asking, the conditions under which they are asking (might be browser settings, or maybe access to the backend, etc.). The decision is made by a subsystem that […]

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Michael Martinez :verified: @michael-martinez.c.im.ap.brid.gy · 17/10/2026

"What includes 'AI Summaries'?" Google's AI Overviews, Brave's AI summaries, Bing's AI Overviews, etc. "ChatGPT started to use it's own indexing system by crawling the web by itself and has been using it to generate answers. So to some extent, it's generating answers without depending on […]

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Michael Martinez :verified: @michael-martinez.c.im.ap.brid.gy · 16/10/2026

Real programmers always wipe out at least one machine by accident. So Claude is a real programmer.

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Michael Martinez :verified: @michael-martinez.c.im.ap.brid.gy · 16/10/2026

Y'all still haven't figured out that ... 1. It's not the query that is triggering the AI summaries 2. The LLMs are using multiple search engines/indexes 3. The LLMs are using different search systems 4. Every time an LLM "grabs content" from a site represents a proxy visit 5. There is no "AI […]

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Michael Martinez :verified: @michael-martinez.c.im.ap.brid.gy · 16/10/2026

New article on the Reflective Dynamics blog today: "Why Your Website Needs A Strategy Beyond Google Rankings". #seo #webmarketing #digitalmarketing #content #cro #search #searchengineoptimization blog.reflectivedynamics.com/why-you…

A person types on a laptop under the words 'Why Your Website Needs A Strategy Beyond Google Rankings.'

Michael Martinez :verified: @michael-martinez.c.im.ap.brid.gy · 16/10/2026

Why Your Website Needs A Strategy Beyond Google Rankings Many businesses have come to regard their Google rankings as a measure of how well their Websites are performing. There is nothing wrong with wanting to rank well in search results, but rankings only tell part of the story. A business may […]

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Michael Martinez :verified: @michael-martinez.c.im.ap.brid.gy · 14/10/2026

How did American life look in the 1970s? Well, our pet lion was not allowed to sleep in the bed. It had to stay in the backyard with the dogs. "This is How American Life Actually Looked in the 70s" ©provided by excellenttown.com […] [Original post on c.im]

Screen capture of a featured image from an article titled 'How American Life Looked in the 1970s.'

Michael Martinez :verified: @michael-martinez.c.im.ap.brid.gy · 14/10/2026

This week's SEO Theory article explains why "There Is No Such Thing As An 'AI-Friendly' Content Format." This is the latest in a series about SEO and AI. #ai #seo #aeo #geo #search #aisummaries #marketing www.seo-theory.com/there-is-no-such…

An artistic rendering of an old textile punch-card pattern transforming into digitized data under the words 'There Is No Such Thing As An 'AI-Friendly Content Format.''

Michael Martinez :verified: @michael-martinez.c.im.ap.brid.gy · 14/10/2026

There Is No Such Thing As An “AI-Friendly Content Format” [ Summary ] Don't assume artificial intelligence requires a special content format. Write and organize information for people first, using headings, lists, tables, summaries, and structured data where they genuinely improve communication […]

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Michael Martinez :verified: @michael-martinez.c.im.ap.brid.gy · 13/10/2026

Illegal border crossings are on the rise again in the USA. So much for "Trump closed the border." #america #immigration #immigrationEnforcement usafacts.org/answers/how-many-migra…

How many illegal crossings are attempted at the US-Mexico border each month? | USAFacts

About 8.9K attempted crossings were detected in August 2026, 40.4% more than August 2025. These attempted crossings, sometimes referred to as “encounters,” are instances when the US Border Patrol (USBP) apprehended or expelled someone attempting to illegally cross into the US between official ports of entry. This number does not necessarily represent individual people, as one person may be counted several times if they make multiple attempts to cross the border.

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Elizabeth Tai | 戴秀铃 🇲🇾 @liztai.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 12/10/2026

Against the Current ends its run. What a gorgeous Cdrama. It has given a boost to the actor, Liu Xueyi, whom many recognize as a good actor who doesn't “play traffic games” to succeed. The drama’s success also sends hope to those who have been wishing for the […] [Original post on hachyderm.io]

Michael Martinez :verified: @michael-martinez.c.im.ap.brid.gy · 12/10/2026

I left an extensive comment on Barry's post but I suspect what Google is doing is in response to a much larger problem that I've documented for our SEO Theory Premium Newsletter subscribers this year. A new dark infrastructure market began having an impact on the Web last year, providing […]

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Michael Martinez :verified: @michael-martinez.c.im.ap.brid.gy · 11/10/2026

"You learn how Google actually works, not just theory..." Don't take an SEO course by anyone who doesn't know what 'theory' means. These scam artists don't know how Google works.

Michael Martinez :verified: @michael-martinez.c.im.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2026

"...not every sentence a human sends to an AI system performs the same function." #ai #seo #searchengineoptimization #citations #aeo #geo #webmarketing #searchengines #answerengines www.seo-theory.com/what-does-it-mea…

A maze representing the complexity of the AI-enhanced search environment under the words 'What Does It mean When An AI Cites Your Website?'

Michael Martinez :verified: @michael-martinez.c.im.ap.brid.gy · 07/10/2026

What Does It Mean When An AI Cites Your Website? [ Summary ] Treat AI citations as observations, not proof of trust, authority, rankings, or specific optimization factors. Consider the query or prompt, conversation history, user context, search index, retrieval system, and platform when […]

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Michael Martinez :verified: @michael-martinez.c.im.ap.brid.gy · 06/10/2026

"keyword dilution" is delusional mumblespeak.

Michael Martinez :verified: @michael-martinez.c.im.ap.brid.gy · 05/10/2026

You cannot measure most of the #AI activity on your Websites. Your #analytics tools are not designed to do that for you.

Michael Martinez :verified: @michael-martinez.c.im.ap.brid.gy · 01/10/2026

The AI-generated infographics on LinkedIn are killing me. I can't stand to look at my timeline there any more.

Michael Martinez :verified: @michael-martinez.c.im.ap.brid.gy · 24/09/2026

And so now we're back to automated link farming. Of course, they're "contextual links!" That was not on my 2026 BINGO card.

Michael Martinez :verified: @michael-martinez.c.im.ap.brid.gy · 22/09/2026

As far as I am concerned, major news media organizations waited 11 years too long to start ignoring Donald Trump.

Michael Martinez :verified: @michael-martinez.c.im.ap.brid.gy · 19/09/2026

I guess we've entered a new age of Hub Spam. Can you genius #SEO people just focus on creating real brand value and stop with all these nightmare buy-now-pay-later scams? PLEASE???

Michael Martinez :verified: @michael-martinez.c.im.ap.brid.gy · 17/09/2026

Okay, SEO world, this Google paper has NOTHING to do with ranking search results. It's about training lightweight AI retrieval models to generate diverse, complementary sets of database results quickly, replacing expensive LLM reasoning at query time: "Instead of forcing the model to expend a […]

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Michael Martinez :verified: @michael-martinez.c.im.ap.brid.gy · 11/09/2026

Every time I see/hear someone say that "Occam's Razor says the simplest solution is usually the correct/best one," I know they have no idea of what they're talking about (first, because that isn't what Occam's Razor says; second, because the simplest explanation isn't necessarily the […]

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Michael Martinez :verified: @michael-martinez.c.im.ap.brid.gy · 05/09/2026

I'm calling it: #AI Detection Tools are pure fantasy slop. They don't work and the criteria they're using to determine what was written by AI are complete nonsense. We are now slowly being flooded with articles that promise to help you determine what was written by AI on the basis of […]

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Michael Martinez :verified: @michael-martinez.c.im.ap.brid.gy · 01/09/2026

Nothing like watching people in the Web marketing world way overcomplicate things about Google, search, AI, whatever. Nothing ever changes.

Michael Martinez :verified: @michael-martinez.c.im.ap.brid.gy · 26/08/2026

There is sad, incredible irony in this story: "Zelenskyy gives award to Elon Musk for Starlink’s role in Ukraine" www.europesays.com/ukraine/33739

Zelenskyy gives award to Elon Musk for Starlink's role in Ukraine - Ukraine | EUROPESAYS.COM

KYIV – President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Wednesday awarded Elon Musk Ukraine's Order of Freedom, one of its highest state honors, for his “outstanding personal

Michael Martinez :verified: @michael-martinez.c.im.ap.brid.gy · 25/08/2026

From now on, every time the whining brat in the White House wants to name something after himself, I suggest we get ahead of him and do the job properly. e.g. Rename the "Gulf of Mexico" as "the Gulf of Trump's Humiliation."

A map of the Gulf of Mexico renamed as Gulf of Trump's Humiliation.

Michael Martinez :verified: @michael-martinez.c.im.ap.brid.gy · 25/08/2026

Just because some AI tool will cram an entire essay into a small infographic for you doesn't mean you should ask it to.

Michael Martinez :verified: @michael-martinez.c.im.ap.brid.gy · 21/08/2026

The Web marketing community never learns from its mistakes. I'm beginning see huge numbers of obviously spammy YouTube videos crowd into certain types of queries on Google. This garbage content is obviously there only to influence the AI Overviews. Every time y'all come up with one of these […]

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Michael Martinez :verified: @michael-martinez.c.im.ap.brid.gy · 20/08/2026

The great Reddit-ChatGPT freakout is a nothingburger cooked up by people who don't know how to read robots.txt files. Now you know who NOT to get your SEO advice from. You're welcome.

Michael Martinez :verified: @michael-martinez.c.im.ap.brid.gy · 20/08/2026

SEO community freakout will commence in 5 ... 4 ... 3 ... 2 ... 1 blog.google/products-and-platforms/…

Personalize the content you see on Search, Discover, and News

New personalization features across Search, Discover, and Google News give you even more control.

Michael Martinez :verified: @michael-martinez.c.im.ap.brid.gy · 19/08/2026

Not that this will calm anyone's nerves, but for those of you who are freaking out over ChatGPT citing Reddit less and less, you might want to consider the fact that Reddit has been blocking the Bing crawler for a couple of years now. And ChatGPT primarily searches Bing […] [Original post on c.im]

Screen capture of the Reddit robots.txt file as of 2026-08-18. It is disallowing all user-agents.

Michael Martinez :verified: @michael-martinez.c.im.ap.brid.gy · 18/08/2026

In a Retrieval Augmented Generation universe, the models are not answering your questions on the basis of their training data. It's time to leave these kindergarten ideas behind. #seo #searchengineoptimization #llms #search #ai #aioverviews #algorithms #analysis

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Prof. Sam Lawler @sundogplanets.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 11/08/2026

COOL apparently the American Astronomical Society journals (the Astrophysical Journal/Astronomical Journal/Planetary Science Journal) have refused to even review our article on satellite brightnesses (already posted on arxiv arxiv.org/pdf/2608.02757) because it's outside the scope of […]

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Michael Martinez :verified: @michael-martinez.c.im.ap.brid.gy · 11/08/2026

RE: c.im/@rustybrick/117076568568599528 This is why I kept my X/Twitter handles. I merely replaced the old accounts with new accounts and renamed them in the process. That way I protected my brand names, "deleted" all my old posts, and prevented anyone from impersonating me in the future.

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kim_harding ✅ @kim-harding.mastodon.scot.ap.brid.gy · 10/08/2026

How heatstroke kills – it can still be deadly after your body cools down theconversation.com/how-heatstroke-… Europe is in the grip of yet another deadly heatwave. Over 10,000 excess deaths were recorded during late-June 2026 […]

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Michael Martinez :verified: @michael-martinez.c.im.ap.brid.gy · 10/08/2026

If only people in Congress would read NPR's articles. www.npr.org/2020/09/10/911368698/tr…

Michael Martinez :verified: @michael-martinez.c.im.ap.brid.gy · 08/08/2026

@eleder Sam doesn't speak in a lot of scenes. Frodo doesn't speak in a lot of scenes. By the logic those people present, these characters cannot speak. You can't win these kinds of arguments. These people are putting words into J.R.R. Tolkien's mouth. Tolkien was asked to review a proposed […]

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Michael Martinez :verified: @michael-martinez.c.im.ap.brid.gy · 08/08/2026

@eleder No one has asked me about that topic in at least 20 years. Yes, they could speak if they wished to. But what would Fred have to say in 'The Fellowship of the Ring', other than to cry out as he did? Why would he need to speak? It's one of the silliest of debates because the […]

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Michael Martinez :verified: @michael-martinez.c.im.ap.brid.gy · 07/08/2026

Four Questions Every SEO Project Should Answer [ Summary ] Use four questions to guide every SEO project: What are you saying? How will people discover it? Why should anyone trust it? Who is it really for? Align publisher intent, useful content, discovery systems, reputation, and audience […]

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Michael Martinez :verified: @michael-martinez.c.im.ap.brid.gy · 06/08/2026

Rand Paul is a disgrace to the U.S. Congress and the State of Kentucky. It has been his intention all along to trick Dr. Fauci into saying something that could be used to fabricate charges of lying to Congress and since Fauci avoided that trap Paul is now abusing his power once again to […]

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Michael Martinez :verified: @michael-martinez.c.im.ap.brid.gy · 05/08/2026

So, apparently, every platform with which I've ever had an account is now signing me up for a newsletter I don't want regardless of how many years my account has been inactive (even if not deleted). Thank you, universe, for shining your spotlight upon me once again.

Michael Martinez :verified: @michael-martinez.c.im.ap.brid.gy · 05/08/2026

Whoa! qz.com/jeff-dean-google-chief-scien… #news #google #ai #seo #searchengines #deepmind #searchengineoptimization

Michael Martinez :verified: @michael-martinez.c.im.ap.brid.gy · 03/08/2026

With the way many SEO agencies appear to be misrepresenting what AI Overviews are, how they are produced, it seems like it's only a matter of time before they convince some client to do something really stupid. AI Overviews start with what is in the search results. They are summaries of the […]

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Michael Martinez :verified: @michael-martinez.c.im.ap.brid.gy · 01/08/2026

I'm not sure, but it seems like NASA may be trying to hide something from us ... #space #mars #nasa #science #humor

A picture of a tiny 12-inch crack in Martian rock with an arrow pointing toward the crack. A tiny green-skinned alien, superimposed on the picture, is smiling and waving at the camera.

Michael Martinez :verified: @michael-martinez.c.im.ap.brid.gy · 30/07/2026

I don't normally link to SubStack articles (SubStack tolerates the presence of far-right extremists) but David asked me to comment for this article, so at the very least I should share it. #wikipedia #notability #seo #controversy […]

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