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SEO In 2025. How I'd Learn It If I Were Starting Over.

October 15, 20255 min readBy Alex Shick
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AI is turning into everyone's best employee. Nobody really writes original content, and the internet is drowning in regurgitated content from others or AI.

Back about a decade ago, it was super easy to boost SEO on your website. Get a few keywords for your product/service, put them on a few easy-to-see pages, and wait for traffic to come flooding in.

Now, AI has been populating everyone's business. Saturated blogs. Repetitive content. Fake AI businesses exactly like yours being made on the minute every hour of the day. Sheer volume won't do anything in the short term, considering how often AI is pumping content out on Google.

So how would I learn SEO if I were starting over again in 2025? I'd make sure I'm doing the following 6 things:

  • Create high-quality original content.
  • Have a specific target demographic that your content caters to.
  • Make content at least 4-5x per week.
  • Put in as many key words from your service/product/ideal client as possible.
  • Put as much free value into the content as possible without the excess sales-ey talk.
  • Free value ladder will shoot your business to the moon.

If you put out original, hand-written content in 2025, you're already in a whole separate class of business compared to everyone else, in the best way possible. After all, people are always looking for that new edge, and AI is putting out the same repetitive content everywhere on the internet. Be unique, and be as real and genuine as possible to your content.

Now, notice how this content isn't very long at all. It's short, simple to read and understand, and took a maximum of 5 minutes of your time. I'd know a good content creator from a poor one from the amount of real, raw passion they put into what they do. People who don't have much passion for content creation tends to make the poorest content from scratch, and can easily turn to AI to write it for them, as with 90% of businesses today.

Small, low-cost changes like these will make a big difference in how you're seen—and in how you feel about yourself as a leader.

Genuine, human-made work is now the ultimate edge in the age of AI.

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