In this powerful return episode of SEO Rockstars, Ben Fisher from Steady Demand reveals the harsh realities every local business owner needs to hear. From massive Google Business Profile suspensions that can wipe out 70% of a company’s revenue overnight to AI (Gemini) wildly misinterpreting reviews and turning positive comments into business-killing negatives,

Ben shares hard-won war stories — including a major locksmith brand with 12 locations suspended and a comedy club confused with a church two states away. He breaks down what actually works in 2026: crafting airtight reinstatement narratives, understanding back-end Google signals, avoiding review manipulation traps, and why schema + consistent entity signals matter more than ever as AI Overviews reshape local search.

Ben also shares his bold predictions on Gemini’s dominance and warns about the coming AI disruption to the entire SEO industry.

In this episode of the SEO Rockstars Podcast, host Guillermo Bravo sits down with Jordan Koene, CEO and Founder of Previsible, to discuss the radical shifts defining search in 2026.

Koene introduces the critical concept of "grounding"—the process by which AI models like ChatGPT and Gemini source and cite web content to formulate responses.

Moving beyond traditional rankings, Koene explains why "citations" are the new gold standard for brand authority and warns of "perception drift," where AI models misrepresent brands by clinging to outdated historical data.

In this episode of the SEO Rockstars Podcast, host Guillermo Bravo catches up with Ivy Boyter, founder of Full Throttle SEO, to break down why the old playbooks are failing in an AI-driven world.

Ivy shares her "Search Everywhere Optimization" philosophy, urging brands to stop obsessing over Google alone and start appearing where people actually ask questions—whether that’s on LinkedIn, TikTok, or within LLMs like ChatGPT.

With a "no-nonsense" approach rooted in her background as a blogger and entrepreneur, she discusses the emerging "trust recession" and why human-first, unique content is the only way to escape the "vanilla" trap of AI-generated filler.