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Google May 2026 Core Update: What Changed and What to Do About It

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Google just announced a major update to their core search algorithm, and the timing is telling. Right before the update dropped, Google published a guide on AI search optimization that draws a hard line between “commodity content” (generic listicles, recycled tips) and first-hand, experience-driven content. At TJ Digital, we’ve been tracking algorithm updates and their […]

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

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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)

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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 […]

How to Plan for Google Search Changes in 2026

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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 […]

How to Structure Your Business for 2028

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Structure your business for 2028 by designing every workflow for AI from the ground up. Then identify where humans uniquely add value and concentrate your best people there. That single mental shift separates businesses that will compound over the next few years from those that get outpaced by AI-native competitors. At TJ Digital, we built […]

Why Your Business Blog Isn’t Working in 2026

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Your business blog isn’t generating traffic in 2026 for one of three reasons. You’re targeting search terms nobody types into Google, your titles don’t match what people are actually searching for, or your articles aren’t formatted in a way that Google and AI can read. At TJ Digital, we run AI-powered SEO campaigns for roughly […]

Does SEO Include GEO? Why I Just Call It SEO

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Yes, what most people are calling GEO is just SEO now. Search is changing, so SEO is changing with it. Anyone telling you that GEO is a separate discipline from SEO is either still doing 2018-style SEO or trying to charge you twice for the same work. At TJ Digital, we run roughly 4,000 AI […]

When to Invest in SEO (and Why New Businesses Shouldn’t Yet)

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SEO works as a multiplier. If your brand already has traction, demand, and an audience, SEO compounds what you have. If you’re starting from zero, there’s nothing for SEO to multiply. At TJ Digital, we manage AI SEO campaigns for roughly 40 to 50 clients. The ones who get the strongest results almost always came […]

Should You Have a Markdown Version of Your Website?

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Yes, you probably should have a markdown version of your website, but not for the reason most people are talking about. The real value right now is internal. A structured markdown knowledge base lets AI do work on your behalf with full context about your business. At TJ Digital, we build a markdown-based AI Brand […]

How SEO Agencies Rip You Off (and How to Spot It)

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If you’re paying an SEO agency and you don’t know what they’re doing, they’re probably not doing much. I talk with business owners every week who are paying an SEO agency, and when I ask what the agency is doing, the most common answer I get is, “I’m not sure.” I’ve been in SEO for […]