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SEO and AEO: Why Keywords Are Just Proxies for What Users Actually Need

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SEOFOMO News argues that search keywords are fundamentally proxies for user intent rather than the core job marketers should optimize around.

SEOFOMO News contends that keyword searches have been misunderstood as the primary objective in SEO, when in reality a search term merely signals what a user is trying to accomplish. The piece reframes the discussion around the underlying need rather than the search syntax itself, touching on the evolving relationship between traditional SEO and answer engine optimization (AEO).
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