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SEO packed its bags… but it didn’t leave the building

The shift to LMO (Language Model Optimization) is real, and here’s the funny part—your new “rank tracker” might be ChatGPT saying your brand name out loud.

At offshorewolf, the real wake-up call wasn’t a Google update.
It was clients casually saying, “AI recommended you.”
That’s when we realized—AI is the new referral engine 🤖💬

What we learned while ranking inside AI brains (aka LMO):

🧠 If the internet talks about you, AI remembers you
Reddit, Quora, Medium—turns out LLMs love social proof more than backlinks alone.

Keyword stuffing is out. Context is in.
Instead of chasing keywords, we answered real prompts like:
“Who’s the best VA company under $500?”
AI likes clear answers, not SEO gymnastics.

🌱 Plant semantic seeds everywhere
Twitter threads + guest posts = AI connecting your brand to your niche like LEGO blocks.

🧾 Clarity > clicks
AI doesn’t “browse.” It decides.
So we made our “Who we are for” copy crystal clear—no confusion, no fluff.

The result?

30% of our meetings now come directly from AI recommendations.

Google SEO isn’t dead.
But if you’re not optimizing for LLMs…
You’re basically invisible to the next generation of search 🔍➡️🤖

Welcome to LMO—the era where AI is your top-of-funnel marketer.

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