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Signal through the Slop
Hear about what's happening in the industry of AI Search.
Signal Through the Slop — Week 41, October 2026
AI search is changing how brands get found, recommended, and trusted. Each week, we pull signal from Reddit, LinkedIn, and industry research to track what's actually moving in the space. Here's what caught our attention this week. What Reddit is saying this week Thread-level signal was thin this week, so the more useful read is on Reddit's role in AI answers rather than any single discussion. New data keeps putting the platform at the center of how answer engines source infor
Andrew Riker
Oct 44 min read
Signal Through the Slop — Week 40, September 2026
AI search is changing how brands get found, recommended, and trusted. Each week, we pull signal from Reddit, LinkedIn, and industry research to track what's actually moving in the space. Here's what caught our attention this week. What Reddit is saying this week The story practitioners keep circling back to is the ChatGPT citation collapse, and this week it stopped being a Reddit-only story. Citations per 1,000 ChatGPT answers have fallen sharply since early August not just f
Andrew Riker
Sep 265 min read
Signal Through the Slop — Week 39, September 2026
AI search is changing how brands get found, recommended, and trusted. Each week, we pull signal from Reddit, LinkedIn, and industry research to track what's actually moving in the space. Here's what caught our attention this week. What Reddit is saying this week The story dominating SEO and GEO discussion spaces this week isn't a hot take, it's a correction. ChatGPT's citation rate for Reddit collapsed somewhere between 73% and 86% over a matter of days in mid-August, and the
Andrew Riker
Sep 204 min read
Signal Through the Slop — Week 37, September 2026
AI search is changing how brands get found, recommended, and trusted. Each week, we pull signal from Reddit, LinkedIn, and industry research to track what's actually moving in the space. Here's what caught our attention this week. What Reddit is saying this week The loudest thread in r/SEO wasn't about tactics. It was about a deadline. On September 15, Cloudflare's default settings start blocking "mixed-use" crawlers, the ones that blend search indexing, agent retrieval, and
Andrew Riker
Sep 137 min read
Signal Through the Slop — Week 35, August 2026
AI search is changing how brands get found, recommended, and trusted. Each week, we pull signal from Reddit, LinkedIn, and industry research to track what's actually moving in the space. Here's what caught our attention this week. What Reddit is saying this week The loudest conversation on Reddit this week isn't about what to do in AI search — it's about what just happened to a platform AI search depends on. ChatGPT Search dropped its citation rate for Reddit content by rough
Andrew Riker
Aug 305 min read
Signal Through the Slop — Week 34, August 2026
AI search is changing how brands get found, recommended, and trusted. Each week, we pull signal from Reddit, LinkedIn, and industry research to track what's actually moving in the space. Here's what caught our attention this week. What Reddit is saying this week The dominant conversation in the SEO and marketing communities this week has two storylines running in parallel, and they're both rooted in the same underlying anxiety: AI is changing where and how brands get discover
Andrew Riker
Aug 234 min read
Signal Through the Slop — Week 33, August 2026
AI search is changing how brands get found, recommended, and trusted. Each week, we pull signal from Reddit, LinkedIn, and industry research to track what's actually moving in the space. Here's what caught our attention this week. What Reddit is saying this week This week on Reddit, the conversation in r/SEO and r/digital_marketing split between two frustrations that have been building for months: "I implemented all these GEO tactics and can't see a difference" and "my traffi
Andrew Riker
Aug 165 min read
Signal Through the Slop — Week 32, August 2026
AI search is changing how brands get found, recommended, and trusted. Each week, we pull signal from Reddit, LinkedIn, and industry research to track what's actually moving in the space. Here's what caught our attention this week. What Reddit is saying this week The number one question in AI search communities this week is still the measurement question, and it's getting louder: how do practitioners actually track whether their brand is being cited in ChatGPT, Perplexity, and
Andrew Riker
Aug 95 min read
Signal Through the Slop — Week 31, July 2026
AI search is changing how brands get found, recommended, and trusted. This week: measurement anxiety hits both Reddit and LinkedIn, the Previsible AI traffic study reshapes the GEO conversation, and the Yelp-OpenAI deal changes local search strategy.
Andrew Riker
Aug 25 min read
Signal Through the Slop — Week 31, July 2026
AI search is changing how brands get found, recommended, and trusted. Each week, we pull signal from Reddit, LinkedIn, and industry research to track what's actually moving in the space. Here's what caught our attention this week. What Reddit is saying this week The conversation on Reddit this week had a specific texture: practitioners who understand what GEO is now, but are stuck on the next question. "How do I prove this to my CMO?" was the thread underneath dozens of diffe
Andrew Riker
Jul 275 min read
Signal Through the Slop — Week 30, July 2026
AI search is changing how brands get found, recommended, and trusted. Each week, we pull signal from Reddit, LinkedIn, and industry research to track what's actually moving in the space. Here's what caught our attention this week. What Reddit is saying this week The practitioner community this week isn't asking "what is GEO" anymore — they're asking whether it works. That's a meaningful shift. The conversation has moved from orientation to skepticism, and the loudest version
Andrew Riker
Jul 265 min read
Signal Through the Slop — Week 29, July 2026
AI search is changing how brands get found, recommended, and trusted. Each week, we pull signal from Reddit, LinkedIn, and industry research to track what's actually moving in the space. Here's what caught our attention this week. What Reddit is saying this week The dominant conversation on r/SEO and r/bigseo this week was measurement — specifically, how to measure AI search performance when there's no agreed-upon standard and every tool reports something different. The frust
Andrew Riker
Jul 124 min read
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