How AI Is Changing SEO: What Agencies Won't Tell You (But Should)

Dev.to AI
Generative AI

I have been implementing and managing SEO projects for over fifteen years. I have watched Google roll out Panda and wipe out content farms overnight. I watched Penguin tear through link networks and link building processes that agencies had spent years building for their clients. I watched the Helpful Content Update quietly te entire sites that had been producing volume over value for years. Every time, the industry went through the same cycle: panic, denial, adaptation, and then a new set of people claiming they had cracked the code.