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Google’s 2026 Spam Update: Will It Penalize GEO Tactics?

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Google’s 2026 spam update targets attempts to manipulate AI answers, and it is aimed at people doing this at scale with automated tools. If you are surgically placing a few relevant recommendations on the pages AI already trusts, my read is that you are on safe ground. The update enforces a policy line Google added […]

ChatGPT 5.6 Sol vs Claude Fable 5: Which to Use in 2026?

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OpenAI just announced ChatGPT 5.6, and its new flagship, Sol, is the closest any model has come to Anthropic’s frontier. For serious, high-stakes work, though, Claude is still the model I would reach for right now. OpenAI is winning on cost, and Anthropic is still winning on raw capability. At TJ Digital, we run roughly […]

Do You Need to Rebuild Your Website for AI in 2026?

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You do not need to rebuild your website to rank in Google or get recommended by ChatGPT. Rebuilding the structure of your site can make it easier for AI to use, but it will not change whether an AI recommends your business. At TJ Digital, about 70% of the work we do is content creation […]

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 […]