Build Helpful Hobby Websites Using AI and Real Human Experience
“First-hand experiments examining how Google AI Mode answers questions, uses citations, handles follow-up prompts and combines information from multiple sources.
These articles record the queries, results and evidence before exploring what they reveal for website owners, content creators and everyday search users.”
For years, the basic website strategy was simple. Find a question people are searching for. Write a useful article that answers it. Get found in Google. Earn the click. That model is not dead, but it is becoming much weaker. The reason is simple: AI Mode is very good at absorbing, summarising, combining, and repackaging … Read more
A useful website is changing. For years, a lot of website content was built around a fairly simple idea: Find a question people are searching for, write a page that answers it, and hope Google sends visitors. That model is now under pressure. Not because questions have disappeared. Not because people no longer need help. … Read more
In traditional search, the user typed a query and Google returned a list of pages. The user then had to do the work. They clicked a result, scanned a page, went back, clicked another result, compared advice, changed their search, tried again, and slowly moved towards the answer they needed. AI Mode changes that process. … Read more
For many years, search worked in a fairly simple way. A person had a question. They typed that question into Google. Google showed a page of results. The person clicked through to a website. The website then had the job of answering the question, explaining the topic, recommending a product, or helping the user take … Read more