Looking for someone with strong experience in website optimization, SEO, and boosting organic traffic
If you’ve worked with any good SEO experts, marketers, or agencies, please share their profiles or company names. Feel free to drop your portfolio/work samples as well
AI coding agents are getting scary good 👀
Claude Code leads on code quality, GPT-5.5 dominates terminal tasks… but the bigger question is 👇
Are benchmarks even reliable anymore?
The AI dev race is moving faster than most teams can adapt. Which AI coding agent are you actually using in production right now?
Seven years working in and around AI-driven product engineering gives you a decent radar for separating the real shops from the ones that rebranded their website in 2023 and called it an "AI practice." I've directly worked with a few of these, and the rest I've vetted through peer recommendations, technical evaluations, or watching their work up close in the industry. The common thread across all of them is that they have actual engineering depth, not just a polished deck.
Here's my list, happy to hear who else people have had good experiences with:
16 years in the business with real production depth across agentic AI, custom LLM development, RAG pipelines, and MLOps. AWS Advanced Partner, SOC 2 Type II and ISO 42001 certified, which matters if compliance is non-negotiable for your use case. One of the few shops where the AI CoE is a real practice, not just a rebranded marketing page.
Strong custom software foundation with solid AI consulting capabilities. They push you to define outcomes before writing a line of code, which is exactly what separates a well-scoped AI project from a six-month prototype that goes nowhere. Good fit when you're still figuring out where AI actually fits in your stack.
Solid depth on the data engineering side. The mistake most teams make is hiring ML engineers before their data infrastructure can actually support a model in production. Edvantis understands this problem at the architecture level, not just conceptually.
Cover the full AI delivery stack, including generative AI, AI agents, MLOps, chatbots, and take a flexible approach to building from scratch vs. integrating existing tools. That flexibility matters more than people realize when requirements inevitably shift mid-build.
Dedicated team model that works well if you need AI talent embedded long-term rather than project-by-project. Good option when you need continuity of engineers across multiple phases of a product rather than a one-and-done engagement.
Award-winning generative AI agency with a specific focus on agentic AI solutions. The "GenAI agency" label gets thrown around a lot these days and BlueLabel actually has the case studies to back it up.
Formerly WillowTree. The acquisition brought enterprise-scale AI transformation capabilities into the fold. Better suited to mid-market and enterprise than early-stage but if you're at that scale and need AI integrated into customer experience infrastructure, they're worth serious consideration.
Purpose-built for generative AI, ML product development, LLM/GPT integration, and AI strategy consulting. The focus is the differentiator here. They're not a general software shop that also does AI on the side, and that specialization tends to mean faster ramp-up on the fundamentals.
Newer but with the right instincts, they treat AI adoption as a strategy and governance problem first, which is the correct framing. Too many teams jump straight to model selection before answering what business problem they're actually solving. Krazimo forces that conversation early.
Latin American nearshore team, so US time zone alignment without the offshore communication lag that kills sprint velocity. Full AI services spectrum like RAG, LLM fine-tuning, computer vision, NLP, and MLOps. Good option when you need senior AI engineers embedded in your team without a lengthy onboarding process.
We are publishing quality blogs, optimizing SEO, covering trending topics, but still seeing drops in impressions, clicks, and rankings on many informational pages.
A few things that hit hard:
Feels like SEO has shifted from: “Publish more blogs” to “Be the most trusted answer.”
And this part is scary because many teams are still following the old strategy of publishing high volumes of content every month. We are also facing this issue recently, especially on informational blogs.
Are you also facing traffic drops on blogs? Are AI Overviews impacting your CTR? What strategy is actually working for you in 2026? Updating old blogs? Building pillar + spoke content? More branded searches? Reddit/community SEO? Fewer but deeper articles?
Would love to hear real experiences from people actively doing SEO, right now.
Has anyone else noticed a very high bounce rate from direct traffic compared to other channels? I am trying to understand what could be causing this on my website. Organic and referral traffic seem fine, but direct traffic is bouncing much faster.
Would really appreciate if anyone could share possible reasons, insights, or things I should check. Your suggestions would be highly valuable
I have been seeing more companies and marketers talking about AI agents for SEO, not just AI writing tools, but actual agents that can automate research, technical SEO audits, content optimization, internal linking, reporting, keyword clustering, and more.
Curious to know from people who are already using them:
Would love to hear real experiences, insights, or outcomes from SEO teams, founders, agencies, or developers working with AI agents.
If anyone has implemented this successfully, feel free to share examples or you can connect with me directly as well. Would genuinely love to learn more about practical use cases.
I’m honestly getting a bit concerned.
Organic traffic has dropped heavily for us, barely any leads, barely any organic traffic. It feels like search is changing completely.
I even checked Google’s own traffic trend on Ahrefs and was surprised to see signs of decline there too. It genuinely feels like users are slowly shifting from traditional search to LLMs like ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, etc.
I have tried almost everything:
But nothing seems to be moving the needle.
What’s frustrating is that AI tools make it sound like everything is “optimized,” but real rankings and conversions are not improving.
Is anyone else facing the same issue in 2026?
What strategies are actually working for you right now:
Would genuinely appreciate advice from people seeing real growth right now.
I’m honestly getting a bit concerned.
Google traffic has dropped heavily for us, barely any leads, barely any organic traffic. It feels like search is changing completely.
I even checked Google’s own traffic trend on Ahrefs and was surprised to see signs of decline there too. It genuinely feels like users are slowly shifting from traditional search to LLMs like ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, etc.
I have tried almost everything:
Optimized content using Claude, Perplexity, and ChatGPT suggestions
Improved internal linking
Updated old blogs
Built backlinks
Worked on technical SEO
Added more helpful content
But nothing seems to be moving the needle.
What’s frustrating is that AI tools make it sound like everything is “optimized,” but real rankings, traffic, and conversions are not improving.
Is anyone else facing the same issue in 2026?
What strategies are actually working for you right now?
Topical authority?
Programmatic SEO?
Reddit/community traffic?
AI search optimization?
Branding?
Video content?
Digital PR?
Would genuinely appreciate advice from people who are seeing real growth right now.
