I think like anything in life, you live and you learn.
And sometimes you try things again with your new learnings and get what you wanted all along.
I had a horrible experience as a 9-5'er from the time I was 15 until I was 30. While I did a ton of side jobs along my main job, and did a lot of...
This is how the acai berry, colon cleanse, raspberry ketones, mango, teeth whitening, wrinkle, biz op, etc deals worked back in 2008 and forward.
Great, great, great times to be an affiliate or offer owner back then.
But it's about time they finally did more to help the consumers though...
The only thing is...
1. That assumes things never change and always stay the same. That's assuming Ai will always just scrape SEO results and feed that back, as-is, not adding anything to it such as reordering or it's own spin. It also assumes you will always be in SEO results for Ai to scrape...
Doesn't matter if something is 100x better.
Where are the eyeballs flowing.
Would you rather have your bases covered now, and make sure you are in these Ai results so in case eyeballs flow to it, you are already there. If the eyeballs never come, what loss do you really have? None.
Or
Wait...
Do you all not remember years ago ( decades ago actually ) subdomains were judged on their own in SEO, not together with the main domain?
This is why this can still happen today.
Nothing has changed in SEO over the last 20 years. The same stuff still applies.
I'd wager this depends on how you are scaling the campaign.
I have seen this, I know it happens...
But, I have also seen SEM campaigns set up horribly ( not saying yours is ) and also not optimized for scale.
Since you mentioned your skills were SEO and coding, I'd prob look into optimization...
Not sure if this impacts what Im about to say...
But I imagine more and more, people are just gonna use Ai instead of search.
So if I ask ChatGPT or XYZAi-Bot12 in the future:
"what's the best way to cook salmon with mango sticky rice" and the Ai generates an answer and LINKS to the website...
For fuller context:
Whatever dude. I lived outside of Detroit for 3 years. I know African-American culture. My old roommate did time and his dad used to be a car thief. Our neighbour was a gay black guy who would hoe himself on the highway exit.
Jamaican black happens to be dark skinned, yes...