Shalin Siriwardhana

Search, growth, and digital strategy notes.

Personal notes on SEO, AI search, content strategy, and durable organic growth.

The Real Reason So Much SEO Work No Longer Drives Growth

Notes / SEO / Jun 4, 2026

The Real Reason So Much SEO Work No Longer Drives Growth

Three things have quietly fallen off the list of activities worth paying for at the volume we used to. The practical question is what this changes for SEO, content quality, and AI search visibility.

AI in the Wild: Confident, Wrong, and Weirdly Expensive: the Practical Angle

Notes / SEO / Jun 4, 2026

AI in the Wild: Confident, Wrong, and Weirdly Expensive

I'm currently helping migrate a client's FAQ hub from a provider hosted subdomain to a self hosted implementation. The FAQ lives. The practical question is what this changes for SEO, content quality, and AI search visibility.

Google’s Expanded Candidate Set and the Selection Crisis: the Practical Angle

Notes / SEO / Jun 4, 2026

Google’s Expanded Candidate Set and the Selection Crisis

To understand why the "selection crisis" is happening, you first have to distinguish between a crawler and an AI agent. In the. The practical question is what this changes for SEO, content quality, and AI search visibility.

What Not to Automate with AI: the SEO Deskilling Trap: the Operator's View

Notes / SEO / Jun 3, 2026

What Not to Automate with AI: the SEO Deskilling Trap

Anthropic also publishes a quarterly Economic Index report, analyzing Claude usage data to track how people are working with AI. The practical question is what this changes for SEO, content quality, and AI search visibility.