Archive - Erick Magnuson

You Are Not Losing Traffic to ChatGPT. You Are Losing It on Google.

An entire tooling category is being built on a channel that currently delivers one third of one percent of traffic. The actual damage is somewhere else…

Sep 16 • Erick Magnuson

August 2026

Half This Catalog Was Invisible to Google. One Command Proved It.

Four questions get answered about your site before a customer ever sees it. Most of them have nothing to do with what you wrote.

Aug 29 • Erick Magnuson

I Asked Three AIs to Name the Best Marketing Agency in San Diego

Then Went and Read What They Read

Aug 23 • Erick Magnuson

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