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Lenny Rachitsky

Lenny Rachitsky

Author, Lenny's Newsletter

“daydream understands how to scale an SEO growth engine in the AI era better than anyone. While SEO has seen more flux than most acquisition channels due to shifts in organic search and the rise of AI-native strategies, daydream has stayed firmly ahead of both.”

Eli Schwartz

Eli Schwartz

Author, Product-Led SEO

“The daydream team is lead by some of the strongest SEO thought leaders, particularly at the intersection of programmatic and product-led SEO. They understand the ethos of my Product-Led SEO book and methodology, and are one of the only teams to translate that into consistent technical execution.”

Coco Mao

Coco Mao

CEO and Co-Founder, OpenArt

“We were fascinated by the idea of programmatic SEO to break our [organic traffic] plateau; however, we didn’t have the internal resources to explore this approach. The data-driven nature of daydream's approach was the key factor that convinced me to become a customer.”

Measure Traffic from LLM Platforms
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Jun 19

Measure Traffic from LLM Platforms

A practical guide to tracking traffic from ChatGPT, Gemini and other LLMs in GA4 so you can measure AI-driven visibility and optimize your content strategy.

daydream team
 
daydream team
Protect Your Brand in the Age of AI Search
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Jun 12

Protect Your Brand in the Age of AI Search

A strategic guide on protecting your brand in the AI search era, showing why human oversight and clear brand identity matter as AI-generated results shape user perceptions.

daydream team
 
daydream team
Measure Your AI Search Visibility Score
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Jun 12

Measure Your AI Search Visibility Score

A new framework for measuring your AI search visibility score—helping brands quantify how often and how well they show up in AI-generated search results.

daydream team
 
daydream team
The Case Against llms.txt: Why the Hype Outpaces the Reality
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Jun 5

The Case Against llms.txt: Why the Hype Outpaces the Reality

A critical look at llms.txt, a proposed standard for AI visibility that’s high-effort, low-impact, and not widely adopted.

daydream team
 
daydream team
What is LLMs.txt?
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May 22

What is LLMs.txt?

A Technical Overview of a Proposed Standard for AI Visibility

daydream team
 
daydream team
What is LLMs-Full.txt?
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May 22

What is LLMs-Full.txt?

A non-standard, developer-led approach to bundling AI-readable content

Thenuka Karunaratne
 
Thenuka Karunaratne
Make AI Engines Trust (and Cite) Your Content
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May 15

Make AI Engines Trust (and Cite) Your Content

A practical guide to optimizing your content for AI discoverability, authority, and attribution.

Thenuka Karunaratne
 
Thenuka Karunaratne
Can’t You Just Do It All?
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May 15

Can’t You Just Do It All?

The rise of AI-enabled services in the outcome era.

Vedant Suri
 
Vedant Suri
Thenuka Karunaratne
 
Thenuka Karunaratne
SEO vs. GEO: A Paradigm Shift
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May 15

SEO vs. GEO: A Paradigm Shift

How generative engine optimization (GEO) is redefining the rules of online visibility.

Thenuka Karunaratne
 
Thenuka Karunaratne
How Perplexity Crawls and Indexes Your Website
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May 8

How Perplexity Crawls and Indexes Your Website

Your content deserves to be cited. Here's how to make it happen.

Thenuka Karunaratne
 
Thenuka Karunaratne
How Claude Crawls and Indexes Your Website
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May 8

How Claude Crawls and Indexes Your Website

Claude can now browse the web. Can it reach your site?

Thenuka Karunaratne
 
Thenuka Karunaratne
How Gemini Crawls and Indexes Your Website
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May 8

How Gemini Crawls and Indexes Your Website

If Google can't see it, Gemini likely can’t either.

Thenuka Karunaratne
 
Thenuka Karunaratne
How OpenAI Crawls and Indexes Your Website
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May 8

How OpenAI Crawls and Indexes Your Website

How OpenAI crawls, indexes, and trains on your content—and how to prepare for all three

Thenuka Karunaratne
 
Thenuka Karunaratne
GEO: The Only AI Search Term That Matters
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May 1

GEO: The Only AI Search Term That Matters

Unpacking key terms in the AI search landscape

Thenuka Karunaratne
 
Thenuka Karunaratne
AI x SEO Market Map
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Apr 17

AI x SEO Market Map

How AI tools are reshaping SEO, from strategy to execution

Thenuka Karunaratne
 
Thenuka Karunaratne
The best programmatic SEO courses to level up your SEO knowledge
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Mar 11

The best programmatic SEO courses to level up your SEO knowledge

daydream identifies search patterns, creates content at scale, and automatically improves that content.

daydream team
 
daydream team
15 programmatic SEO examples & case studies to inspire your own strategy
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Feb 7

15 programmatic SEO examples & case studies to inspire your own strategy

Programmatic SEO is a proven methodology for scaling organic traffic and boosting brand visibility. From SaaS to finance to design, check out these 15 case studies about how various companies have harnessed pSEO to dominate search rankings and grow their organic traffic.

Thenuka Karunaratne
 
Thenuka Karunaratne
How to implement programmatic SEO using WordPress
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Jan 13

How to implement programmatic SEO using WordPress

Whether it's WordPress, Webflow, or another platform, programmatic SEO (pSEO) follows the same fundamental principles regardless of your chosen content management system (CMS). However, each CMS has unique nuances that can affect execution. WordPress is the most dominant CMS globally, used by millions to build and manage websites and blogs—including ones that execute pSEO. Our guide walks you through how to implement programmatic SEO on a WordPress website.

Thenuka Karunaratne
 
Thenuka Karunaratne
The top 16 programmatic SEO tools worth using to jumpstart your site’s traffic
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Jan 10

The top 16 programmatic SEO tools worth using to jumpstart your site’s traffic

Programmatic SEO (pSEO) has gained traction in recent years as a scalable and cost-effective approach to content creation. However, its reputation as a highly technical strategy requiring specialized implementation can deter marketers. Fortunately, the rise of low- and no-code tools makes pSEO more accessible than ever. In this guide, we cover the most important tools you need to build out your tech stack.

Thenuka Karunaratne
 
Thenuka Karunaratne
What does Shop with Perplexity mean for eCommerce SEO?
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Dec 23

What does Shop with Perplexity mean for eCommerce SEO?

Last month, Perplexity announced Shop with Perplexity, a new feature that allows users to purchase items directly through the platform. This is enabled by Perplexity’s integrations with various merchants, including Shopify, which allows users to directly purchase any item listed on a store with Shop Pay enabled. This could potentially signal a huge disruption for eCommerce SEO, which relies on readers visiting their website directly to purchase a product.

Thenuka Karunaratne
 
Thenuka Karunaratne
The Complete Guide to E-E-A-T
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Nov 12

The Complete Guide to E-E-A-T

If you’re creating content with the goal of ranking well in search results, you’re probably no stranger to the concept of E-E-A-T. The acronym, which stands for Experience, Expertise, Authoritativeness, and Trustworthiness, is a critical framework Google uses to assess the quality and credibility of content on the web. In this guide, we explain the role of E-E-A-T in SEO, how the criteria has evolved over the years, and how you can better optimize your content for these principles.

Thenuka Karunaratne
 
Thenuka Karunaratne
Google does not penalize AI content—it’s a myth!
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Oct 16

Google does not penalize AI content—it’s a myth!

Thanks to advancements in natural language processing and machine learning, AI-generated content has quickly become a mainstay of the online world. For businesses and creators, the advantages are obvious—namely, faster content production and scale. But in spite of its benefits, many marketers remain hesitant to test the waters because of the belief that Google penalizes AI-generated content. The reality, though? Google doesn’t penalize websites for publishing AI-generated content. Below, we explain what Google’s algorithms actually consider for search rankings and how you can leverage AI to achieve meaningful SEO results.

Thenuka Karunaratne
 
Thenuka Karunaratne
How to decide if you should invest in pSEO
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Aug 21

How to decide if you should invest in pSEO

Programmatic SEO (pSEO) promises massive scale and efficiency, yet many startups we’ve spoken with are still apprehensive about diving into pSEO — and for good reason. The sheer volume of content required, the technical complexities, and the uncertainties surrounding ROI cause many startups to hesitate at the starting line.

Thenuka Karunaratne
 
Thenuka Karunaratne
AI search could benefit publishers more than it harms them
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Aug 12

AI search could benefit publishers more than it harms them

In the previous era of search, Google was successful in building a system of incentives to create mutually beneficial relationships between users, Google, and publishers. Today, that balance is being disrupted as new search interfaces like SearchGPT and Perplexity surface answers to questions without ten blue links.

Thenuka Karunaratne
 
Thenuka Karunaratne
How AI will impact SEO, according to industry leaders
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Jul 30

How AI will impact SEO, according to industry leaders

We recently sat down with top SEO leaders to understand how they think AI will shape the trajectory of the industry. Here are their key insights.

Thenuka Karunaratne
 
Thenuka Karunaratne
LinkedIn vs. SEO — a playbook for content distribution
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Jul 25

LinkedIn vs. SEO — a playbook for content distribution

daydream, as an SEO company, spends nearly all of its marketing budget on content that is not optimized for SEO. Instead, most of our viewership comes through alternative distribution channels — particularly LinkedIn. This bet has now paid off to the tune of hundreds of high-quality, inbound leads. This strategy isn’t daydream-specific—for many startups, content marketing is a better strategy for near-term results than SEO. The difference is that while all SEO content is content marketing, not all content marketing is SEO content (i.e primarily relies on Google for traffic).

Thenuka Karunaratne
 
Thenuka Karunaratne
The starter guide to building a programmatic SEO engine
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Jul 23

The starter guide to building a programmatic SEO engine

Programmatic SEO is often touted as a silver bullet for scaling content and dominating search results, but getting it right requires more than simple plug-and-play measures.

Thenuka Karunaratne
 
Thenuka Karunaratne
The evolution of programmatic SEO: from templates to AI-driven content
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Jul 18

The evolution of programmatic SEO: from templates to AI-driven content

You may know pSEO as a growth marketing tactic used by companies like G2 and Zapier, which leveraged their vast proprietary data and structured content templates to generate thousands of pages targeting long-tail search queries. Now, recent advancements in AI are transforming pSEO from a niche tactic to a viable strategy for a broader spectrum of businesses.

Thenuka Karunaratne
 
Thenuka Karunaratne
When to outsource SEO vs. build in-house
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Jul 11

When to outsource SEO vs. build in-house

Companies often come to a crossroads with SEO: Should they build an in-house team or partner with an experienced SEO agency? The right choice ultimately depends on your company's unique circumstances and resources.

Thenuka Karunaratne
 
Thenuka Karunaratne
Programmatic SEO (pSEO) vs. traditional SEO
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Jul 9

Programmatic SEO (pSEO) vs. traditional SEO

In SEO, two strategies have emerged to help businesses improve their online visibility and attract qualified traffic: programmatic SEO (pSEO) and traditional SEO.

Thenuka Karunaratne
 
Thenuka Karunaratne
The winners of SEO’s AI era will have access to unique data
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Jul 2

The winners of SEO’s AI era will have access to unique data

The proliferation of AI-generated content means that undifferentiated Baseline SEO articles offer no unique value to platforms like Google, ChatGPT, or Perplexity, leaving them with no reason to prioritize such content in their results.

Thenuka Karunaratne
 
Thenuka Karunaratne
Almost all SEO will become programmatic SEO
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May 30

Almost all SEO will become programmatic SEO

Having spoken to hundreds of companies over the past year about their SEO strategies, including customers like Notion, ProductHunt, Tome, and Clay, I’d estimate that 90% of companies investing in SEO are not investing in programmatic SEO.

Thenuka Karunaratne
 
Thenuka Karunaratne
Inside Google’s SGE beta: a guide for SEO teams
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May 8

Inside Google’s SGE beta: a guide for SEO teams

SGE represents a quantum leap in Google’s search functionality, and while it’s unclear exactly when the beta experience will roll out, SEO teams are bracing for impact.

Thenuka Karunaratne
 
Thenuka Karunaratne
Product Market Fit solves for building backlinks
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Apr 12

Product Market Fit solves for building backlinks

When we speak to prospective customers at daydream, one question inevitably surfaces — “It’s great that you can help us do programmatic SEO, but what about building backlinks?” The short answer to this question is that I don’t believe it’s useful to treat building backlinks as a distinct practice, at least in the way it’s commonly discussed in SEO circles.

Thenuka Karunaratne
 
Thenuka Karunaratne
Will AI kill SEO?
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Aug 8

Will AI kill SEO?

People wonder if the rise of AI means the fall of SEO. In this article, Thenuka Karunaratne explains why SEO is unlikely to disappear — even in the age of AI.

Thenuka Karunaratne
 
Thenuka Karunaratne

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