{"id":519,"date":"2024-10-08T17:15:07","date_gmt":"2024-10-08T17:15:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/howtobigisland.com\/?p=519"},"modified":"2025-01-21T16:32:10","modified_gmt":"2025-01-21T16:32:10","slug":"gtm-116-the-future-of-seo-and-ais-impact-with-a-100m-product-led-seo-framework-with-eli-schwartz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/howtobigisland.com\/index.php\/2024\/10\/08\/gtm-116-the-future-of-seo-and-ais-impact-with-a-100m-product-led-seo-framework-with-eli-schwartz\/","title":{"rendered":"GTM 116: The Future of SEO and AI\u2019s Impact, with a $100M+ Product-Led SEO Framework with Eli Schwartz"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"height:25px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/schwartze\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Eli Schwartz<\/a>\u00a0is an SEO expert and consultant with over a decade of experience driving successful SEO and growth programs for both B2B and B2C companies. He has worked with major brands like Shutterstock, Gusto, WordPress, Quora, Mixpanel, and Zendesk to build and execute global SEO strategies that dramatically increase their visibility at scale. Previously, Eli led the SEO team at SurveyMonkey, growing organic search from nearly zero to one of the largest growth channels at the company.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-discussed-in-this-episode\">Discussed in this Episode:<\/h3>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>The product-led SEO framework Eli used to drive SurveyMonkey from 0 to $100M+ in revenue.<\/li>\n<li>Why the old model of churning out SEO content is dead and how AI is disrupting the space.<\/li>\n<li>Eli\u2019s journey from getting rejected at top tech companies to becoming a thriving consultant.<\/li>\n<li>The power of deeply understanding your target user and building products for their needs.<\/li>\n<li>Actionable advice for making the transition from operator to successful consultant.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-highlights\">Highlights:<\/h3>\n<p>(4:14) Building SEO products tailored to the user intent, not just keywords.<br \/>(8:19) How Zapier unlocked massive growth with a product-led SEO approach<br \/>(17:15) Why AI content generation is not a silver bullet \u2013 it still requires a purposeful strategy.<br \/>(22:54) Examples of Eli\u2019s product-led SEO wins at SurveyMonkey, Tinder, and Coinbase.<br \/>(29:31) The biggest mistake people make with SEO is having a diminished understanding of what it can accomplish.<br \/>(41:28) Eli\u2019s best consulting gigs came from job interviews where he got rejected.<br \/>(44:33) To succeed as a consultant, develop a niche specialty and have customer success stories.<br \/>(52:23) One thing revenue leaders believe to be true that Eli thinks is bull$***.<br \/>(54:49) One thing that is working for Eli in go-to-market right now.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Guest Speaker Links (Eli Schwartz):<br \/><\/strong>LinkedIn:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/schwartze\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/schwartze\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Host Speaker Links (Scott Barker):<br \/><\/strong>LinkedIn:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/ssbarker\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">www.linkedin.com\/in\/ssbarker\/<\/a><br \/>Newsletter:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/thegtmnewsletter.substack.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">thegtmnewsletter.substack.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Sponsors:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/explore.hginsights.com\/account-scoring-guide?utm_source=gtmfund&amp;utm_campaign=account-scoring-guide&amp;utm_medium=organic_social&amp;utm_term=ug%20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>HG Insights<\/strong><\/a><strong>.\u00a0<\/strong>Feeling that AI FOMO? You\u2019re not alone. That\u2019s why HG Insights created The Next Generation of Sales AI report \u2014 to calm the FOMO and help you bring AI to your GTM teams. It includes a breakdown of the Sales AI landscape, adoption of GenAI and Sales software across buyer groups. Plus, an analysis of the top 75 trending sales AI tools. Why HG Insights? Simple. They\u2019ve been writing market reports for years as the pioneer of tech adoption and market insights. Trusted by GTM leaders at the likes of Snowflake Five9 and Google Cloud to improve GTM efficiency. Thinking about AI for your sales team but unsure where to start?\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/explore.hginsights.com\/account-scoring-guide?utm_source=gtmfund&amp;utm_campaign=account-scoring-guide&amp;utm_medium=organic_social&amp;utm_term=ug%20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">This free and ungated report has you covered<\/a>.\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>The GTM Podcast<\/strong><br \/>Features conversations with the top 1% of tech executives, VCs, and founders \u2013 the experts who have \u2018been there, done that\u2019 to build some of the fastest-growing software companies. Every week, a guest joins Scott Barker to dissect their stories \u2013 revealing what worked, what didn\u2019t, and how things actually went down.<\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/gtmnow.com\/gtm-116-future-seo-ai-impact-product-led-framework-eli-schwartz\/\">GTM 116: The Future of SEO and AI\u2019s Impact, with a $100M+ Product-Led SEO Framework with Eli Schwartz<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/gtmnow.com\">GTMnow<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eli Schwartz\u00a0is an SEO expert and consultant with over a decade of experience driving successful SEO and growth programs for both B2B and B2C companies. He has worked with major brands like Shutterstock, Gusto, WordPress, Quora, Mixpanel, and Zendesk to build and execute global SEO strategies that dramatically increase their visibility at scale. Previously, Eli [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":473,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/howtobigisland.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/519"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/howtobigisland.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/howtobigisland.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/howtobigisland.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/howtobigisland.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=519"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/howtobigisland.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/519\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":520,"href":"https:\/\/howtobigisland.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/519\/revisions\/520"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/howtobigisland.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/howtobigisland.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/howtobigisland.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/howtobigisland.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}