How to Market Your Business for AI in 2026

As a business, you can’t just be marketing to humans anymore. You need to be marketing to humans and AI. At TJ Digital, where we manage AI-optimized campaigns for roughly 40 to 50 client websites, we see the difference every day. AI-referred visitors convert at about 8x the rate of traditional search visitors. That gap […]

Reddit for SEO and AI Search: How to Get Your Brand Cited in 2026

Reddit just became even more important for businesses. Google is now experimenting with showing Reddit comments directly inside AI responses, and Reddit threads are starting to appear on Google Business Profiles. If your brand isn’t showing up in the right Reddit threads, you’re missing one of the highest-impact opportunities in AI search right now. At […]

Why Google Is Ignoring Your Content in 2026 (And How to Fix It)

Google is ignoring your content because it looks like commodity content. That means Google’s systems have estimated (often before even reading the page) that your content doesn’t add anything new beyond what’s already in the index. The fix depends on whether Google is skipping your page entirely or reading it and rejecting it, because those […]

Recommendation Building for AI Search: How to Get Cited in 2026

Recommendation building is the process of getting your brand mentioned in the articles that AI search engines already trust and cite. It is the closest thing to a direct replacement for traditional link building, and for most businesses, it is more effective. Here’s how it works. When someone types a query into ChatGPT or Google’s […]

Does Schema Markup Help You Rank in AI Search? (2026 Data)

Schema markup does not help you rank in AI search. That’s the conclusion from the first large-scale study on the topic, published by Ahrefs in May 2026. They tracked 1,885 pages that added JSON-LD schema against roughly 4,000 control pages and found no meaningful increase in AI citations on any platform. At TJ Digital, we […]

How to Plan for Google Search Changes in 2026

Blog posts are going to stop working pretty soon, right? I get this comment all the time, and the answer, based on 17 years of doing this, is simple. The best way to plan for Google search changes is to focus on what’s working right now. At TJ Digital, where we manage SEO campaigns for […]

Google’s AI Search Optimization Guide: What It Actually Tells Us (2026)

Google just released an official guide called “Optimizing Your Website for Generative AI Features in Google Search.” At TJ Digital, where we track over 4,000 AI prompts per day across ChatGPT, Google AI Mode, and Perplexity for roughly 40 to 50 client websites, we’ve already been doing most of what the guide recommends. The guide […]

AI Is Getting More Expensive: How Should Businesses Respond?

AI is getting more expensive, and it will keep getting more expensive for the foreseeable future. If you control for capabilities, the cost per token is actually falling. But the capabilities you need to stay competitive keep increasing, which means your AI bill is going up regardless. At TJ Digital, we run AI through every […]

How to Build an FAQ Page That Gets Your Business Recommended by AI in 2026

If you want AI tools like ChatGPT and Perplexity to recommend your business, there’s one page you should have on your website. I’m talking about an FAQ page. At TJ Digital, we run AI search campaigns for more than 40 client websites, and the FAQ page is consistently one of the most influential pages we […]

Are AI Models Actually Getting Worse in 2026?

Most of the time when someone says AI models are getting worse, they’re remembering the old version as smarter than it actually was. The recent complaints about Anthropic’s Claude 4.7, though, have some real teeth to them. At TJ Digital, we run every client’s Brand Ambassador through Claude, which is part of how we deliver […]