Speaking at Affiliate World Budapest next week — "The Great SEO Reset"

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Hey all!

Quick heads-up for anyone who'll be in Budapest next week, and a thread for anyone who won't but wants to talk shop.

On Wednesday, July 9, I'm running a 2-hour workshop at Affiliate World Budapest called "The Great SEO Reset: How to Thrive in the AI Visibility Era."

It's the first time I'm putting the full framework in front of a live audience, and I figured I'd open a thread here in parallel — partly to invite anyone attending, partly because I know a lot of the people on this forum have been living through the exact shifts the workshop is about.

What the workshop covers:

1. • The Traffic System That Broke — why the rank-and-monetize model quietly stopped working around 2022–2023
2. • The Content Website Collapse — findings from my 4-year study on 100 blogs and the 85% traffic loss most of them took
3. • What the Winners Have in Common — the 4-part scorecard shared by the 15% of sites that gained traffic while everyone else lost it
4. • SEO vs. AI Visibility — what actually changed, what didn't, and where most people are misdiagnosing the problem
5. • The AI Visibility Framework — a practical readiness scorecard you can apply to any site
6. • Live self-audit — attendees run the framework on their own sites in the room
7. • Q&A

Why I'm posting it here:

A lot of the debate about "SEO is dead" vs. "SEO is fine" on forums like this one has been going in circles for two years. My honest take is that both camps are partly right and mostly missing what's actually happening: a structural shift in who gets discovered, not just how they get ranked. The workshop is my attempt to lay out the pattern using actual longitudinal data rather than vibes.

If you'll be at AW Budapest, come sit in. Would genuinely love to meet forum folks in person; usually, the sharpest conversations at any conference happen with people who've been in the trenches for a decade, not the ones on stage.

If you won't be there, drop your questions in this thread. I'llpost the top themes and a summary of the framework here after the workshop wraps up. Happy to go deep on any of the bullets above in the meantime.

What's the one thing about the current SEO / AI Visibility shift you most want a straight answer on?

I'll take the best questions into the session.