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I Get Why Everyone's Chasing AI Overviews.

It's obviously changing how people search and in many cases, reducing clicks to traditional organic listings.

Now because click through rates are way less marketers started looking for shortcuts.

Some tried scaling AI-generated pages.

Others doubled down on parasite SEO.

Some built content specifically to attract AI citations rather than help readers.

And there's nothing wrong with that but I know for a fact Google has spent the last two years updating its systems to identify manipulation—not AI itself.

I would just like to know what is the future of marketing or better yet the strategy?

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I've reached a point where I genuinely don't know what I'm doing wrong, so I'm asking for honest advice.

I've been writing on Medium for two years. I've published 312 articles. I write for New Literary Society, Illumination, The Catalyst, The Pub, I engage with other writers, read, clap, respond to comments, and I've recently shifted toward longer-form articles because that's what everyone recommends.

Yet I'm stuck.

My stats look shit. Or at least I think it does as I don't have none to bounce ideas of from. I swear I must be the only medium writer in the whole of South Africa.

I'm getting around 63k impressions a month, about 4.5k views, 1.6k reads, and I gained 121 followers and 95 subscribers this month.

But financially, it's barely moving. And trust me when I say I desperately need it to start moving.

So I have to ask...

Is this normal? Is this just a phase every Medium writer goes through? Is my niche wrong? Or is my writing simply just shit?

I'm open to criticism. If you think my writing is the problem, tell me. If it's my headlines, my topics, my strategy—tell me. I'm willing to change whatever needs changing.

For transparency, I do use AI, but not to generate articles. I use Claude Pro mainly for research, grammar, and structure. The writing itself is still mine.

Before anyone says "just move to Substack," I can't.

I don't own a laptop. I wish I did. I've always written entirely on my phone, and the Substack mobile app just doesn't work well enough for the way I write.

Starting over somewhere else also isn't realistic for me right now.

To be completely honest, I went through a horrible divorce about a year ago and I lost almost everything. Right now it's just me, my dog, a borrowed beat-up caravan, and my phone. She even took the fucking car.

Medium isn't just a hobby anymore. It's the one thing I'm trying to build into something that can eventually change my situation.

So I'm not looking for empty encouragement. I'm looking for honest advice from people who've either been where I am or can see something I'm missing.

I'm sorry for venting but when I say I've got nothing it means even somone to talk to. Unfortunately that would be whoever is reading this.

What would you do if you were in my position?

Thank you for taking the time and my you all stay blessed.

L

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Google’s John Mueller and Martin Splitt have advised against parallelizing website content with markdown versions.

The Myth of “Markdown Optimization” and Why It Quietly Fails You

You don’t lose rankings because your formatting is wrong.

You lose them because your content never earned a reason to stay.

There’s a growing obsession in content circles right now — the idea that you can “format” your way into AI visibility.

Markdown versions.

Parallel pages.

Structured duplicates.

Clean signals for machines.

It sounds intelligent. It feels strategic. But most of it is just bullshit.

And I get it. When traffic drops, you want something you can fix with your hands. Something technical. Something controllable.

So you start rebuilding everything.

And slowly, without noticing, you stop writing for humans at all.

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Hi Guys.

I can't believe this but I actually sold over 57 copies of my first digital product.

Don't ask me how. It was sitting on the shelf for almost 6 weeks and suddenly last week over a 3 day period I sold 57 copies @ $12.99.

I'm still in shock.

Unfortunately as fast as it happened it also came to a screeching halt.

So here's the deal.

As a thanks to the algorithm God's I'm giving away 57 of the exact same product sold "The Medium Growth OS" absolutely free.

Please note: this is not a sales gimmick or a promo stunt. This genuinely happened to me.

So to all the people that want to leave a shitty comment "Don't Be a A-hole".

Share as you see fit. I made 57 copies of the premium version available to anyone who uses this link👇

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THERE'S A VERSION OF YOU THST NEVER HESITATES.

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There's a version of this I'm not going to write.

The version where I perform gratitude so aggressively it reads like a hostage video. The version where I pre-apologize for existing before I've even made a single point. The version designed to make everyone comfortable and challenge absolutely nobody.

That version is that of a coward. You won’t find it here.

I’m Len from BloggingLen. I live in Bloemhof, a small town in South Africa’s North West Province — the kind of place where the dust knows your name and nothing happens fast. I’m a white Afrikaner. I’ve lived this continent my entire life except for seven years I spent in London and learning what the rest of the world thinks South Africa looks like from a distance.

And let me tell you it looks nothing like what it is to actually lives here.

Here’s the thing about being a white man in Africa in 2026: you exist inside two competing narratives, and both of them are bullshitting you.

The first narrative says you're the villain.

You carry historical sin in your bloodstream. Every advantage you have is stolen. Your job is to disappear quietly, feel bad about yourself on a schedule, and call that "healing." The louder you protest, the more it proves the point.

The second narrative says you're the victim.

That you’re being erased. That the country is collapsing specifically because people who look like you aren’t running things anymore. This narrative is shared at braai (BBQ) fires and in comment sections with the urgency of men who’ve confused discomfort with persecution.

Both narratives are emotionally satisfying. Both are intellectually useless.

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https://medium.com/new-literary-society/the-trials-and-tribulations-of-being-a-white-man-in-africa-a0a0bcb5e1e9?sk=9332e24deb1d396cd80897269442525e

AI isn’t a danger what it’s what companies think it can do.

While headlines scream about AI replacing workers, the real crisis isn’t replacement—it’s anticipation. Companies are slashing junior roles not because machines are ready, but because they hope they will be.

The math is brutal: entry-level postings down 35% since 2023, yet 95% of corporate AI pilots deliver zero ROI.

So here’s the uncomfortable question no one is asking: If the technology isn’t working, why are we already firing the people who were supposed to run it? The answer reveals a corporate failure far deeper than any algorithm.

Early-career job postings are down 35% since 2023. But new MIT data shows 95% of corporate AI pilots deliver zero financial return. If the machines aren’t working, why are the junior jobs already gone?

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When you don't have money, money becomes the lens you see everything through.

It's not because you're shallow or obsessed. It's because scarcity hijacks your thinking. Every decision feels urgent. Every problem feels financial. Every person who isn't stressed about money looks detached, reckless, or out of touch.

THE CONTENT ISN'T FULLY AI. IT'S ASSISTED.

You've heard the line that 90% of the internet will be AI-generated by 2026. It gets repeated until it feels like fact. It isn't. It traces back to a 2022 Europol warning and a tangle of forecasts that hardened into certainty on the way down the citation chain.

What researchers actually measured is more useful, and more precise.

Graphite analyzed 65,000 English language pages from Common Crawl spanning 2020 to mid 2025.

AI-written articles briefly passed human written ones in November 2024, then settled near a 50-50 split. But here is the part nobody quotes: 86% of top-ranking pages in Google Search are still human-written, and 82% of the sources cited by ChatGPT and Perplexity are human-written. Volume went up. Visibility didn’t follow.

Ahrefs ran the cleaner cut. They examined 900,000 newly publishet pages, one per domain, and sorted them by how much AI each page contained. Pure AI: 2.5%. Pure human: 25.8%. A blend of both: 71.7%.

Read those two numbers together because they change everything.

Seventy-four percent of new pages involve AI. Only two and a half percent are fully machine-written.

The internet is not a synthetic-author economy. It is an assisted-production economy.

The line that matters for writers isn't human versus AI. It's whether a human is still doing the part a model cannot do: the synthesis, the judgment, the lived specifics. Most content fails not because a machine touched it but because no human did anything a machine couldn't have.

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Topical authority is the real weapon now

Small bloggers keep trying to compete horizontally when they should be dominating vertically.

You are not beating massive sites by writing about everything. You beat them by becoming impossible to ignore within one specific corner of the internet.

That’s topical authority, and right now, it matters more than most people care to realize.

Every article I publish feeds a single, tight ecosystem: the business, strategy, and psychology of surviving as a solo creator.

Instead of jumping randomly from SEO one week, to travel the next, and AI prompts after that, each piece I write reinforces the others.

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You did everything they told you.

You made it scannable. You front-loaded the takeaway so the skimmer would get the point without reading. You broke the walls of text into clean, digestible chunks. You wrote the way every search guide for the last decade told you to write: clear, efficient, built for the reader who isn't really reading.

And now a machine reads it for them.

It lifts the point. It hands the reader a summary. The reader nods and never arrives. You optimized your prose into the exact shape a language model produces for free, and then you wondered why the model started eating your lunch.

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The saddest thing I see online isn't failure.

It's effort.

Massive amounts of effort.

Good people waking up early.

Working late.

Grinding.

Pushing.

Trying.

And still going nowhere.

The internet convinced an entire generation that freedom comes from finding the perfect side hustle.

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A government order. A disabled AI. And a question nobody seems comfortable asking.

One moment, millions of people are using a powerful AI system.

The next moment, it's gone.

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Not because it crashed.

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Not because it failed.

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Not because users abandoned it.

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Because a government decided it should disappear.

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That sounds like science fiction.

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It isn't.

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According to Anthropic, the company was ordered by the United States government to suspend access to its flagship AI models, Fable 5 and Mythos 5, for all foreign nationals worldwide. The reason given was national security.

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Hi Guys

I don't want to spoil anyone's start of the week sound like a Karren. I've never confessed or complained about anything, ever. But admittedly at 43 I'm going all out and im just going to say it.

F@ck This!!! I had enough

Bad luck can be pretty difficult to cope with, particularly when it seems to be targeting you and no one else. I'm a white South African middle age man and I have nothing. I lost everything I have ever owned. F@king every thing

My mother always said that bad luck comes in tours of three. It does often seem that way, too, though perhaps I have convinced myself of this theory.

There have been multiple times when I'm at strike 2 of a bad luck streek where I end up just hanging around waiting for the third to come along. I mean it feels like second nature .

I am sick to pieces of these Mary Poppins-type people that say it’s your “perception” or your “intentions” and it’s basically your fault bad things happen and everyone else is completely blameless. Victim of abuse? Your fault. Homeless? Your fault. Serious illness? Your fault. All three at the same time (which I actually went through)? You guessed it, my fault!

Guys I know I might be pushing my luck (no pun intended) but if any one can spare me a buck it would genuinely help.

Here in South Africa there's no cash app but I have a PayPal.

It’s apparently much easier to victim blame instead of taking 2 seconds and some emotional intelligence to see that not everyone has the same amount of good fortune given to them. No matter how hard you work, how positive you try to stay, how much of a good friend you are or how well you treat others, you still are left with nothing and nobody who actually cares.

I’ve seen countless times terrible people get everything handed to them, and decent people die penniless.

That whole Yin/Yang, or Karma, is extremely malfunctioned.

Some of us just have bad luck and how you deal with it is what makes you survivable.

Thank you for reading I'm now done throwing my toys out my pram.

https://www.paypal.me/Lsclaassens

On June 3, 2026, Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince posted a single chart that should have been treated as a structural milestone instead of a passing update. Bots had overtaken humans online.

Not in a forecast.

Now.

Seventy-four percent of new pages involve AI. Only two and a half percent are fully machine-written.

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You spent years learning to win a competition that Google just stopped scoring.

The SEO discourse is obsessed with “optimizing for citations.” But the truth is much more destabilizing: Google is quietly pulling the rug out from under traditional ranking and replacing it with something entirely different—turning the reader, not the algorithm, into the ultimate gatekeeper.

With the expansion of AI Overviews, Gemini integration, and the rollout of "Preferred Sources," the game has flipped. The machine isn't just trying to point people to the best answer anymore; it’s trying to be the answer, grudgingly offering a few curated doors out based on who the reader decides in advance to trust.

This is a brutal reality shift. If you are a faceless content farm pumping out keyword-matched filler, this is a death sentence with a delay on it, because nobody is whitelisting a generic review site into their personal trust circle. However, if you are an independent writer with an actual, memorable voice, the ladder just flattened entirely in your favor. A human-trusted name explicitly saved in a settings menu will beat a cold, ranked URL in a database every single day.

The era of mass-producing content for algorithmic consistency is dead, and the old system that rewarded sheer volume will now actively penalize forgettable content. Stop auditing for the crawler. Start writing sentences so sharp, so human, and so un-summarizable that an AI cannot just paraphrase your perspective away.

The old ladder is gone, the audition is daily, and the only role left worth playing is the one nobody can summarize away.

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