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AI tools can support SEO work, but they do not replace the judgment, experience, and nuance of SEO specialists.
Claude are hiring an SEO. Lead. I went down to LinkedIn today and look at this job post that I came across.
Anthropic, the company behind Claude are hiring someone to lead up SEO.
If you go through this job spec, it's actually quite amazing. They'll put into all the details that that SEO. Person will need, all the stuff that they're going to own, all the stuff that they're going to do.
On top of that, they've given a very generous salary of $320,000 a year.
Now, the funny thing about this post is obvious. Everyone is saying and it's all over social media, you can go fire your SEO. Agency today because Claude can run it.
Well, if Claude can run it, why aren't they doing it themselves?
Why do they actually have to hire a person to do the SEO. For them? The answer is obvious that AI is not there yet and I don't think it's going to be for a very, very long time that you can just go fire your SEO.
Experts.
SEO. Takes a lot more than just AI. It takes a lot of brain power, intuition and a lot of experience and nuances.
You can't just go fire your SEO.
Person and just rely on claw to do it for you. Come on, guys, be realistic. Let me know your thoughts about this and Keep on following me for more posts like this.
AI tools can support SEO work, but they do not replace the judgment, experience, and nuance of SEO specialists.
Use AI as part of the SEO workflow, but keep experienced human review for strategy, prioritization, tradeoffs, and business-specific judgment.
The answer is obvious that AI is not there yet and I don't think it's going to be for a very, very long time that you can just go fire your SEO. Experts. SEO. Takes a lot more than just AI. It takes a lot of brain power, intuition and a lot of experience and nuances.
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