u/Efficient_Pen3804

I run a marketplace website in the events space.

Our blog pages are doing okay:

• impressions growing
• getting clicks
• some keywords ranking

But our main pages are struggling badly:

• search result pages
• category pages
• profile pages

Almost no impressions or clicks.

We worked on them too:

• unique content
• SEO
• FAQs
• schema
• internal links
• images

But Google still doesn’t rank them well.

Why does this happen?

Do blogs rank easier than marketplace/search pages?

Would love advice from people who worked on marketplaces, directories, or local listing websites.

I work at a startup in digital marketing and honestly I’ve learned most things by just doing the work every day.

Right now I mostly do:

• SEO blogs
• keyword research
• social media posts
• local SEO
• content ideas
• branding stuff
• trying different growth ideas
• using AI tools to work faster

But lately I’ve been getting a little worried.

A lot of the things marketers used to spend hours doing can now be done by AI in minutes.

Writing captions.
Writing simple blogs.
Making content ideas.
Basic SEO work.
Even designs sometimes.

It feels like the “small tasks” are slowly losing value.

So now I’m trying to figure out:
What should I learn next so I can actually grow more, make more money, and not become replaceable in a few years?

I don’t want to only be “the content guy.”

I want to learn the skills that companies will still really need even when AI gets better.

People keep telling me different things:

• learn ads
• learn analytics
• learn technical SEO
• learn automation
• learn growth marketing
• learn sales funnels
• learn CRO

But I’m confused about what actually matters MOST right now.

If you were starting again today as a marketer in the AI era:
What would you focus on learning first?

And what skills do you think will become MORE valuable because of AI, not less?

Would love real advice from people already working in this field.