Old SEO vs New SEO: What’s Changed in 2025?

SEO isn’t what it used to be. The days of keyword stuffing, chasing backlinks, and focusing only on Google rankings are gone.

Old SEO was about:

• Keywords over intent
• Volume > depth
• Writing for bots
• Every backlink counts
• Rankings = success

New SEO is about:

• Optimizing for Google + AI (AI Overviews, snippets, PAA)
• Depth with E-E-A-T (Experience, Expertise, Authority, Trust)
• Intent-led content clusters
• Writing for humans first, bots second
• Reputable mentions and quality citations
• Success = being retrieved, cited, and converting

Key shift: Old SEO chased algorithms. New SEO builds trust, authority, and human-first value while preparing for AI-driven search.

The brands that adapt to this shift will own visibility, credibility, and conversions.


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Hiring a Social Media Manager?



Stop expecting them also to be your video editor, designer and copywriter.

Here’s the truth

Social Media Managers:
Plan campaigns & content calendars
Analyze insights & optimize performance
Build community & manage brand voice

Content Creators:
Shoot & edit videos
Design posts, graphics & reels
Write engaging, creative copy

Both roles are valuable. Both require different mindsets.

When you merge them into one role, you get ↓
Lower quality
Poor results
Burnout

The goal isn’t to find a “unicorn.”
It’s to create synergy between strategy and execution.

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Innovation isn’t always about big leaps — sometimes it’s about timeless design.
Look at the humble safety pin: from 1849 to 2025, its design has hardly changed. Why? Because it solved the problem so perfectly that it didn’t need reinvention.
A reminder for all of us in business and technology:
Start by solving the real problem.
Refine quietly instead of chasing novelty.
Great design lasts for centuries.
Whether you’re building products, processes, or teams — simplicity and reliability often win over complexity.
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The recent MIT research on enterprise AI use has often been incorrectly reported as 95% of AI fails.

The proper headline is 95% of AI approaches fail.

Why?

Last summer we shared concerning research - enterprises spending $5m on $1m problems.

Early this year we published analyses on how such directionless spend and immoderate expectations from AI could soon tank sentiment below the rising potential of AI, leading to missed opportunities.

We see 5 common patterns at firms with underperforming programs from case work and discussion with executives, many of which are alluded to in the study:

1) Setup AI committees and innovation labs with sprawling red tape, low velocity and ivory tower thinking.

2) Appointed bureaucrats to lead the program who thought it would be a wonder drug and lacked the intuition and agility to cope with applying AI.

3) Lacked a strategic plan and let overzealous engineering and data teams run without clarity to develop in-house AI wrappers and tools, often for commodity solutions available in the market.

4) Spent little effort on user experience, workflow integration and managing adoption and behavioral change.

5) Ignored the hard task of designing operating model shifts. Executives looking to shave off weekly 4hrs/FTE had no plan to leverage the 10% productivity gain. More time for cafeteria foosball?

The committees have had great fun, held countless meetings, massaged metrics on slides, churned out platitudes and burned millions of corporate dollars,

Meanwhile, no one else has had fun. Many workers are quietly using shadow AI where they can for personal productivity gains. And AI shows up as cost on the P&L to fund this bureaucracy.

This is the structure of technology revolutions. Years ago similar reports stated that most digital transformations fail yet many companies ultimately found value. An inability to understand novel developments and resulting frame shifts leads to fear, uncertainty and unwise deployment of attention and capital.

Some organizations learn and thrive, new natives emerge and others get bought or fold. Fundamentals of human and organizational behavior and fallibility hasn't evolved much if we study history keenly.

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99.9% of marketers don’t know how to use ChatGPT.

But it doesn't have to be that way.

Here are 10 prompts to make ChatGPT work for you:

1/ B2B Marketing Strategy Development

Prompt:

"Act as a B2B marketing strategist. Analyze the product: [Product Details], and target audience: [Audience Details]. Develop a campaign strategy highlighting unique value propositions, ideal platforms, and KPIs to measure success."

2/ Content Marketing Ideas

Prompt:

"You are a B2B content marketing specialist. Generate 3 topic ideas for blog posts that address [Industry Challenges] targeting [Audience Demographics]. Include catchy titles and a brief outline for each."

3/ Email Campaign Planning

Prompt:

"As a B2B email marketing expert, create a drip email campaign for [Campaign Goal: e.g., lead nurturing] targeting [Audience]. Specify subject lines, personalization elements, and CTAs."

4/ LinkedIn Campaign Strategy

Prompt:

"Imagine you're a B2B social media manager. Plan a LinkedIn campaign to promote [Service/Product]. Define post themes, hashtags, and engagement tactics to connect with [Target Industry]."

5/ Ad Performance Analysis

Prompt:

"You are a B2B data analyst. Analyze metrics from [Platform: e.g., LinkedIn Ads]. Suggest improvements for [Goal: e.g., higher conversion rate] based on current data trends and benchmarks."

6/ Webinar Campaign Design

Prompt:

"As a B2B webinar specialist, design a webinar campaign on [Topic]. Include target audience, content structure, promotional strategy, and post-event engagement."

7/ Google Ads Campaign Creation

Prompt:

"Act as a B2B PPC expert. Create a Google Ads campaign for [Product/Service]. Suggest keywords, ad copy, extensions, and budget strategies to reach [Target Audience]."

8/ Branding Improvements

Prompt:

"You are a B2B branding expert. Recommend branding improvements for [Company/Service]. Focus on visual identity, tone, and messaging tailored to [Audience/Market]."

9/ SEO Keyword Research

Prompt:

"As a B2B SEO consultant, identify 3 long-tail keywords for [Service/Content Topic]. Include reasons for selection and tips for optimizing landing pages for these keywords."

10/ Networking Event Strategy

Prompt:

"You're a B2B event strategist. Plan an in-person networking event for [Industry/Field]. Suggest venue, agenda, and strategies to maximize ROI and attendee satisfaction."

Use these prompts to unlock the full potential of ChatGPT in your B2B marketing efforts.

Master the tool. Transform your strategy. Achieve success.

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