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SEO Study: 5 Lessons From Running AI Agents Across Every Search

Writesonic CEO Samanyou Garg revealed in a Search Engine Journal webinar that AI search now drives 35% of the company's leads, up from 2.5% last year, and shared five lessons from running AI agents across search platforms, including a six-stage optimization loop and a workflow to win citations on third-party pages.

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Last year, 2.5% of Writesonic’s leads came from AI search. As of March, 35% do. Samanyou Garg, Founder and CEO of Writesonic, showed the system behind that number in his Search Engine Journal webinar: agents surface what moved across every search platform, practitioners prioritize and act. “AI search didn’t necessarily kill SEO, but it turned it into an engineering problem,” he said. The session covers new citation research and 5 lessons from the field, including the 6-stage loop his team runs on every published page and the workflow that wins citations on pages you don’t own. Watch the full webinar […]

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