No Hacks: Optimising the Web for AI Agents
Your next million website visitors won't be human.
AI agents are already browsing the web. Comparison shopping, researching products, filling out forms, booking travel, extracting information. And most websites are completely unprepared. Navigation that makes sense to humans confuses agents. Checkouts break. Critical information is invisible.
No Hacks is the podcast about this shift. We explore how to optimise websites for AI agents: what breaks, what works, and what companies need to do now to stay visible in an agent-driven web.
Hosted by Slobodan Manic (slobodanmanic.com), consultant and speaker on Agent Experience Optimisation (AXO).
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No Hacks: Optimising the Web for AI Agents
Google Doesn’t Need Your Blog Posts Anymore, Here’s What to Do Instead with Jono Alderson
Is content marketing finally dead? In this no-BS conversation, I’m joined by digital strategist Jono Alderson to unpack the new reality of SEO, content, and how Google’s evolution is leaving traditional marketing behind.
Jono explains why so much content is now obsolete, how search is changing with AI, and why the only real path forward is to be more human, more trustworthy, and more brand-driven than ever before.
🔥 What We Talk About:
00:00 – Is content marketing dead? Jono kicks off with a bang.
00:46 – “Solved query spaces” and why Google doesn’t need your blog posts anymore.
02:46 – The AI-powered future of search: recipes, risottos, and synthetic content.
04:55 – What actually still works: EEAT, branding, and building trust.
07:45 – The ironic truth: in the age of AI, being human is your biggest asset.
🧠 Key Takeaways:
- Why pumping out blog posts is no longer a growth strategy
- What “solved query spaces” mean for your SEO future
- Why Google’s zero-click answers are here to stay
- How to compete through trust, brand, and true expertise
- Why your best marketing move might be… local radio?
🔗 Links:
Jono's LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/jonoalderson/
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