How Marketing Teams Will Work With AI in 2027

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By 2027, AI will do most of the hands-on marketing work at companies that keep up. The people on the team spend their time on strategy and review. The AI agents handle production, with access to every tool and document the company uses. At TJ Digital, we already run our own marketing this way. One […]

Does AI Reward Fresh Content? What Actually Matters in 2026

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If you are trying to show up in AI search, you have probably heard that AI loves fresh content. There is some truth to that, but the reality is more specific than most people make it sound. AI is not keeping track of how often you update your site, and it is not rewarding you […]

How to Get Cited in AI Search

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Getting cited in AI search comes down to one habit. Answer the question directly in the first two or three sentences after your title, then immediately back that answer with one to three facts or statistics. Do the same after every heading and every chart in the article. At TJ Digital, we run dozens of […]

Is an LLMs.txt File Needed for SEO?

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No, an llms.txt file will not help your SEO right now. Google has said it does not use llms.txt for traditional search or AI search, and a recent Ahrefs study of 137,000 domains found that 97% of llms.txt files got zero requests in a month. So why am I telling clients to add one anyway? […]

How AI Prompting Has Changed in 2026: Skills, Goals, Loops

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AI prompting changed in three ways over the past six months. If you are still prompting the way you did in 2025, you are leaving a lot of quality on the table. Here are the three shifts at a glance: At TJ Digital, we run these models across every part of our content and SEO […]

How to Connect Google Business Profile to Gemini (2026)

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You can now connect your Google Business Profile to Gemini, and it does two useful things at once. It makes the profile easier to manage, and it gives Gemini real context about your business that improves everything else the model produces for you. At TJ Digital, we run AI search optimization for roughly 40 to […]

What Is an AI Agent for Your Business in 2026?

An AI agent for your business in 2026 is a folder of markdown files. The folder holds your company’s knowledge and instructions. A platform like Claude Code or OpenAI Codex reads those files and does the actual work. That sounds almost too simple, and a year ago it would have sounded insane. At TJ Digital, […]

Claude Fable 5 Shutdown: Why the U.S. Government Pulled the Model in 2026

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The U.S. Department of Commerce ordered Anthropic to restrict Claude Fable 5 from every foreign national, including foreign nationals living inside the United States. Anthropic cannot verify the citizenship of millions of users in real time. So on June 12, 2026, it shut the model down for everyone. The order never told Anthropic to take […]

Google’s Open Knowledge Format (OKF): What It Is and How to Adopt It

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Google’s Open Knowledge Format (OKF) is the first open standard for structuring your company’s knowledge so AI agents can read it. Google Cloud released version 0.1 in June 2026. It is a set of plain markdown files, organized in folders, with a small block of structured text at the top of each file that tells […]