Tony G. | The GEO Guy

Yesterday Google confirmed ads in AI Mode, and sponsored product listings already get a CTR similar to organic ones. Paying to show up in AI answers is about to be normal. Getting there for free will only get harder.

I was 100% convinced I had zero reach on here. Then 31 of you followed me in a minute. Thank you all! Happy to connect with more founders and builders here! 💪

TikTok just launched ‘must eat’, restaurant guides built from food videos, going after yelp and google maps. Honest question: when you pick a restaurant, do you check TikTok or Google maps first?

looking to connect with other founders into: • GEO / AI search • SEO • agencies • bootstrapping • cold email • AI tools • marketing • building in public • startups in Spain & LATAM say hi 👋

So much misinformation about getting cited by LLMs. "Cited in under X days". Please. We run each question at least 5 to 10 times, incognito, on a VPN, logged out (as the bare minimum), and you get 5 different answers. A share of voice of 2 o 3 out of 5 is already amazing.

Cloudflare says a cache bug in a hosted AI model put other customers’ data into 155 responses over 13 days. Tiny until one is yours. honest question: do you send customer data to hosted models yet?

Asked Perplexity how to avoid vacation rental scams. One of its red flags: booking direct with the owner to skip the platform fee. There are whole businesses built on exactly that. Would you book direct to avoid the service fee?

renamed my company in its first month because someone else already had a very similar one. what's the dumbest mistake you made in month one?

Expanding into a couple of new countries and stuck on this one: a page per country or one page per language? a) per country b) per language c) depends on where the money is

Hey fellow founders! X flagged my account and my reach has been near zero lately. But I’m just another founder trying to build an audience here. If you can see my post, please react or say hi. I’ll follow back.

AI search isn't replacing search. It's changing which brands make the shortlist, and which ones disappear before the click. The question isn't "Will people search?" It's "Will AI recommend you when they do?" Would your brand make the answer?

Ranking #1 on Google doesn't mean AI will recommend you. Your brand can dominate search results and still be missing when customers ask ChatGPT what to buy. Are you showing up in AI answers, or just Google?

A real diagnosis from this month, anonymized. Asked with the clinic's own name for a treatment, AI named it in 5 of 5 answers. Asked the way patients actually phrase it, 2 of 30. Do you know the exact words your buyers use? Yes or no?

which milestone actually felt like the real start for you? a) first sale b) first repeat customer c) first referral d) first hire

OpenAI says its top models will now train on a cached copy of the web, not the live internet. honest question: does it matter to you which version of your site they learned from?

247 followers. Not great, not terrible. If you're a founder building something, say hi. I'll follow back and actually read your stuff.

Entrepreneurship is self-growth disguised as making money. The business will expose every weakness you've been able to hide: your impatience, fear of selling, need for control, and habit of avoiding hard conversations. You think you're building a company. You're also building the person capable of running it. The money matters. But the growth is what makes you earn it. What has entrepreneurship forced you to work on?

Your content probably isn't why AI ignores your brand. Most brands think AI visibility is a content problem.

Your customers are already asking AI what to buy. They're asking ChatGPT, Google, and Perplexity which products to trust, compare, and choose. If your brand isn't in those answers, your competitor may be getting the recommendation, and the sale. Try it yourself: ask AI for the best option in your category. Does it name your brand?