Updated for 2026. With $100 and Meta Advantage+ AI campaigns, broad creative-led targeting, and CAPI in place, a small local business can still generate real leads — here's exactly how to think about that budget.
Updated for 2026. A curated index of Alejandro Rioja's best SEO, e-commerce, social media, and business articles — the same tactics he uses across his own sites and operator ventures to drive 500k+ monthly organic visits.
Updated for 2026. Classic growth hacking playbooks (Airbnb/Craigslist, Dropbox referrals, Hotmail, PayPal) still work — but AI-era distribution has changed the game. Here's what holds up and what's new.
Updated for 2026. I ran the same 50 head terms in ChatGPT search and Google (with AI Overviews) and tracked which sources each engine cited. Source overlap was about 40% — the rest of the time the two engines surfaced completely different sources.
Updated for 2026. A 2016 memoir of Flux Ventures — the holding company I built out of UCLA. Flux is no longer operational; today I run Pickleland and build AI agent systems.
Updated for 2026. Across 50 head terms I applied a GEO scaffold (TL;DR, numbered steps, FAQ, primary-source citations) to pillar posts and tracked Google AI Overview citation rates — frequency rose from 4/50 to 19/50 over six weeks.
Updated for 2026. From selling chargers on Santa Monica streets to $100k+/month in 91 countries — the unit-economics, distribution, and AI-leverage lessons that still hold in 2026.
Updated for 2026. Sales fundamentals from street selling to consultative and AI-assisted selling: mindset, pitch mechanics, social proof, and closing — drawn from real operator experience.
TL;DR Perplexity cites 5–7 sources per answer, which means the competition for any given citation slot is narrower than the equivalent organic SERP. The structural moves that win Perplexity citations are well-defined: a clean TL;DR, a numbered step-by-step block, an FAQ with literal user-phrasing, and primary-source li
Updated for 2026. Schema markup was a Google rich-result tiebreaker in 2024. In 2026 it’s a primary signal for AI engines (ChatGPT, Perplexity, Google AI Overviews, Claude) — they parse JSON-LD to extract clean, citable answers.
Updated for 2026. A TL;DR isn’t a summary of your post — it’s a direct answer to the head query, written in 2–4 sentences, structured so an AI engine can lift it verbatim into its answer. Open with the takeaway, follow with the why, end with the constraint or caveat.
Updated for AI Search (May 2026) TL;DR: Diagnosing traffic drops in 2026 has a new culprit on the suspect list: AI-search displacement. When a query that used to drive clicks now triggers an AI Overview that summarizes your content without sending the click through, your traffic drops even when your ranking holds. The
Updated for AI Search (May 2026) TL;DR: B2B SEO — long sales cycles, multiple decision-makers, technical content that builds credibility — is one of the niches most directly disrupted by AI search in 2026. B2B buyers research in ChatGPT and Perplexity at the very top of the funnel, and getting cited in those AI answers
Updated for AI Search (May 2026) TL;DR: The growth-hack stack that took alejandrorioja.com to 250,000+ monthly visits still works in 2026 — long-form content, content layering, smart repurposing — but the distribution surface has shifted. AI engines (ChatGPT, Perplexity, Google AI Overviews, Claude) now route a meaning
Updated for AI Search (May 2026) TL;DR: The 11 on-page tips below still rank pages on Google in 2026. For AI engines, you also need three additional structural moves: a quotable TL;DR, a numbered step-by-step block, and an FAQ section. The GEO section explains why and how to add them without disrupting the rest of…
Updated for AI Search (May 2026) TL;DR: SEO in 2026 still rewards the fundamentals — a clean site, strong internal links, content that answers the query — but classic Google rankings are now one of two surfaces. The other is AI search: ChatGPT, Perplexity, Google AI Overviews, and Claude. The strategies below still wor
Updated for AI Search (May 2026) TL;DR: All 17 white-hat techniques below still work in 2026 — and most of them work even better for AI engines, because LLMs preferentially cite high-trust sources. The GEO section adds three additional tactics specific to ChatGPT, Perplexity, and AI Overview citation rate. What’s new i