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Thinking about content Ray Grieselhuber DemandSphere Speakerdeck.com/raygrieselhuber @raygrieselhuber FOUND Tokyo April 2024

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Converging Trends in 2024 Speakerdeck.com/raygrieselhuber @raygrieselhuber

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Speakerdeck.com/raygrieselhuber @raygrieselhuber Global liquidity anxiety in Post-ZIRP (ゼロ金利後) financial markets affects ad-based strategies Money supply SPIKED but now is decreasing Money is not as cheap right now

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“Alphabet’s disappointing ad revenue numbers suggest that corporations worldwide are still uncertain about the pace of interest rate cuts from global central banks.” - Thomas Monteiro, analyst, Investing.com (January 30, 2024) https:/ /www.investing.com/news/stock-market-news/googleparent-alphabet-reports-quarterly-revenue-above-estimates-3287428 Speakerdeck.com/raygrieselhuber @raygrieselhuber

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Speakerdeck.com/raygrieselhuber @raygrieselhuber “Edge of indexing”: Google wants to crawl less https://www.demandsphere.com/blog/the-impact-of -compute-on-content-and-seo-in-both-directions/

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Speakerdeck.com/raygrieselhuber @raygrieselhuber Google HCU and Spam updates vs user behavior

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Rumors of SGE Launch in May at Google I/O Speakerdeck.com/raygrieselhuber @raygrieselhuber 1. Rumors are unconfirmed 2. SGE widget is not auto-expanded in early live tests 3. Auto-expand is what will have the biggest impact on pixels and CTR

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Speakerdeck.com/raygrieselhuber @raygrieselhuber The AI Content Arms Race 1. Google wary of content explosion and crawl costs 2. Positioning themselves to penalize spammy AI content but so far not doing a good job 3. It is clear that AI content is going to massively increase

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Content strategy in AI world Speakerdeck.com/raygrieselhuber @raygrieselhuber 1. Recognize that Google does not want to crawl low-quality content, indexing will grow severe 2. Turn your writers into editors, use AI to do the heavy lifting 3. Unique human content, including UGC, is still very valuable. We see this with Reddit, etc. in SERPs 4. Co-occurrence scores in content graders might lose accuracy due to rewrite and summarization loops