
AEO Integration Without Cannibalizing Traditional SEO: Building Your Unified Search Strategy for 2026
Google's AI Overviews killed click-through rates by 61% on queries where they appear, according to Dataslayer's 2026 analysis.
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Google's AI Overviews killed click-through rates by 61% on queries where they appear, according to Dataslayer's 2026 analysis.

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I've watched three different marketing teams proudly show me their "SEO audit system" only to reveal a 47-tab Google Sheet with conditional formatting so complex it crashed the browser.

Emarketer projects Meta will generate $243.46 billion in global ad revenue this year, officially dethroning Google as the world's largest ad platform for the first time in digital advertising history. Google's projected $239.54 billion suddenly looks like second place.

A client once showed me their marketing dashboard with a proud grin. They were spending $14,000 a month on Google Ads and generating what looked like solid lead volume.