Measured

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Measured is a marketing and data driven podcast hosted by Logan Wood. The show explores real world projects, industry trends, and performance insights to help businesses make smarter, more informed decisions.

  1. 6d ago

    Measured: AI Can Code Your Website, It Cannot Build One That Customers Actually Find

    AI website builders are everywhere. Tools like Lovable, Bolt, Replit, Cursor, and v0 let someone with no coding background describe what they want in plain English and watch a working site appear in minutes. The market hit $3.24 billion in 2026 and is projected to reach $17.43 billion by 2035. The shift to AI-built websites happened in less than two years. In this episode of Measured, we break down what these tools can and cannot do, where the line is for a real business, and what it actually takes to end up with a website that gets found. The case for AI builders is real. They cut the learning curve from 4 to 8 hours down to about 15 minutes. Hostinger reports that 93 to 95% of their users had no prior paid web presence. For a sole proprietor, a side project, or a one-page brochure that does not need to be found online, AI builders genuinely lower the barrier. The catch is that almost every real business needs more than that. On a recent episode of Google's Search Off The Record podcast, John Mueller and Martin Splitt from the Search Relations team warned that AI-built sites consistently miss SEO basics. Mueller's framing: building a website with AI is like working with a developer who does not specialize in search. The site will function. It just will not be found. The hidden problem goes deeper. The major AI site builders render content on the client side, which means the actual content of your page does not exist in the HTML when a search engine first loads it. Most AI search engines, including ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Google's AI Overviews, only read the initial HTML. Your site loads. It looks great. But ChatGPT cannot read it. In this episode: What is happening in the AI website builder market The real case for AI builders and where they make sense What Google's search team is saying about AI-built sites The hidden rendering problem nobody is talking about What it takes to turn an AI-built site into one that gets found Customer question: Do I need to be on TikTok? Featured project: Arts on Grand https://www.artsongrand.org/

    28 min

  2. Jun 1

    Measured: A Billion-Dollar Publisher Is Planning for Zero Search Traffic, What It Means for You

    The publisher behind Vogue, Wired, GQ, and The New Yorker is telling its teams to plan their businesses as if Google search traffic will be zero. Not declining. Not softening. Zero. In this episode of Measured, we step back from the news of the week and name the bigger shift happening underneath all of it. The web is moving from a traffic model to an answer model. Three stories from the last two weeks make the shift impossible to ignore. Condé Nast CEO Roger Lynch said he told his teams to budget as if search traffic were zero after three years of forecasts that came in worse than predicted. At Google I/O, Google redesigned its search box and called it the biggest upgrade in over 25 years, with information agents coming this summer that monitor the web for you so you never have to leave to get your answer. And Google quietly added AI assistant traffic as a visible source in Google Analytics 4, so for the first time you can see how many people are arriving from ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Gemini instead of guessing. We also cover why this hits publishers much harder than your business. Most search falls into three buckets. Informational, transactional, and local. AI is eating the first kind. Publishers live on informational. Most small businesses live on transactional and local, which is far more durable. In this episode: Why the web is shifting from a traffic model to an answer model What Condé Nast just said and the data behind it What Google rebuilt at I/O and why it matters How to find AI traffic inside Google Analytics 4 Why publishers are hit hardest and your business is more protected The three types of search and which ones are actually dying What to do about it before the shift reaches your channel Customer question: Is my website ever really done? Featured project: Tiger Sports Academy https://tigersportsacademy.com/

    27 min

  3. May 25

    Measured: 90% of Brands Are Invisible in AI Search, How to Be in the 10% That Show Up

    90% of brands studied had zero presence in AI search. Zero mentions. Zero citations. Nothing. In this episode of Measured, we break down what the data actually says, why most businesses are invisible to ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Google AI Mode, and what to do about it. The data comes from the Q1 2026 Quarterly Search Report by Victorious. They analyzed 177 brands across healthcare, SaaS, financial services, ecommerce and retail, and legal services. Only 18 of 177 brands had any measurable AI presence at all. The finding that surprised even experienced SEO people: domain authority, the number SEOs have been chasing for a decade, has essentially zero correlation with AI search visibility. A big brand with a high-authority site can be completely invisible. A smaller brand with a lower-authority site can show up everywhere. Same internet, two different systems. The brands that do show up have one thing in common. They exist beyond their own website. Third-party mentions, editorial coverage, review platforms, and consistent information across the web are doing the work that domain authority used to do. We also cover what this looks like for a local business, where the signals are Google Business Profile, local reviews, mentions in local news, and industry directories. In this episode: Why 90% of brands have zero AI search presence The difference between mentions and citations Why domain authority does not correlate with AI visibility What the visible 10% are doing differently What AI search visibility looks like for a local business The four queries to run right now to check your baseline Customer question: Is direct mail still worth it? Featured project: Rise Overhead Door https://riseoverheaddoor.com/

    29 min

  4. May 18

    Measured: ChatGPT Just Became an Ad Platform, Should Your Business Be Running Ads on It?

    ChatGPT just became an ad platform. Not in theory. Not in a pilot. As of this month, any US business can sign up, set a budget, and run ads inside ChatGPT. Google Ads launched in 2002. Facebook Ads launched in 2007. New ad platforms are at their cheapest and least competitive in their earliest months. ChatGPT ads sit at that same inflection point right now. In this episode of Measured, we break down what just changed, how ChatGPT ads actually work, who should try them, and who should wait. OpenAI started running ChatGPT ads as a small pilot late last year, limited to major brands spending at least $50,000. This month they flipped the switch. The self-serve Ads Manager opened to all US businesses, the minimum spend was removed entirely, and tracking tools were added so advertisers can measure what happens after the click. But this is not the right fit for every business yet. ChatGPT ads only target at the country level right now. No state, city, or radius targeting. No audience segmentation. No third-party verification. If you serve one small area or depend on precise targeting, this may be a wait-and-see. If you sell something people research before buying and your customers use ChatGPT regularly, it is worth a look. We also walk through what to actually do this quarter without wasting money. In this episode: What just changed with ChatGPT ads this month How ChatGPT ads actually work and where they appear Why this is different from Google and Meta Who should try ChatGPT ads and who should wait What a real test budget looks like What to do this quarter Customer question: Should I respond to bad reviews? Featured project: Keene Outdoors https://keeneoutdoors.com/

    22 min

  5. May 11

    Measured: Your Website Is Not Dead, Why Google Just Rewarded First-Party Brands Over Aggregators

    For two years, the marketing world has been telling you that your website matters less. AI Overviews are stealing clicks. Social is where the audience is. Reddit is the new search engine. Google's most recent core update tells a different story. First-party brand sites gained visibility. Aggregators and user-generated content platforms lost it. In this episode of Measured, we break down what happened in Google's March 2026 core update, why brand sites are winning, and what to do about it. Lily Ray and the team at Amsive analyzed US search visibility data after the update finished rolling out on April 8. The biggest losers were aggregators and user-generated content platforms. YouTube took the largest single-domain hit Amsive has tracked recently. Reddit, Instagram, and X all posted significant losses. TripAdvisor, Yelp, and Expedia got hit hard on the travel side. On the winning side, brand sites, government domains, and original content publishers gained ground. This is happening on two fronts at the same time. Users are going to ChatGPT and Perplexity for direct answers instead of clicking through to aggregator pages. And Google itself is making the same choice in its own results, ranking brand sites higher and skipping the middleman. We also cover what a website built for 2026 actually looks like. It is built for three audiences at once. People, search engines, and AI tools. The good news is these three audiences want most of the same things. Clear, fast, well-structured, and honest. In this episode: What happened in Google's March 2026 core update The aggregators and platforms that lost the most ground Why brand sites are winning on two fronts at the same time What a website built for 2026 actually looks like What to do about your own site without needing a full redesign Customer question: Is it worth sponsoring local events? Featured project: Elk River Contracting https://www.elkrivercontracting.com/

    36 min

  6. May 4

    Measured: Keywords Are Not Prompts, How to Show Up in ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Google AI Mode

    Search is not a keyword box anymore. It is a conversation. People used to type two or three words into Google. Now they type full questions or speak them out loud. They ask ChatGPT for analysis. They ask Perplexity for research. They ask Google AI Mode for comparisons. In this episode of Measured, we break down how search has changed, why old keyword strategies are not enough anymore, and how to show up where people are actually searching now. The numbers tell the story. A typical Google query was three to five words. The average ChatGPT query is now over 35 words. 67% of AI search queries are full questions or conversational phrases. ChatGPT alone runs about 2 billion queries per day. Gartner expects traditional search engine volume to drop 25% in 2026 as users move to AI assistants. A keyword is a fragment someone types into a box. A prompt is a full question that includes context, situation, and intent. Your content has to answer the prompt, not just contain the keyword. We also cover what still matters, what old keyword tools miss, the signs your strategy is stuck in 2018, and what to build first to show up in AI search. In this episode: How search has changed and why most strategies have not caught up The numbers behind the shift to AI and conversational search The difference between a keyword and a prompt What still matters in SEO and what does not Signs your search strategy is stuck in 2018 What to build first to show up in AI search Customer question: What are your thoughts on AI chat on my website? Featured project: Pearson Lakes Art Center https://www.lakesart.org/

    35 min

  7. Apr 27

    Measured: Email Returns $36 for Every $1 Spent, How to Build a List That Actually Pays

    Email returns about $36 for every $1 spent. Paid search sits around $2. Social advertising is around $2.80. Email is not the loud channel, but it is the one that actually pays. In this episode of Measured, we break down why your email list is one of the few channels you actually own and how to build one that actually responds. Social platforms can change their algorithm tomorrow. Search can change tomorrow. AI can change everything tomorrow. The email list you own does not change. We cover why most businesses confuse "email marketing" with "sending a newsletter," what makes a strong email program actually work, and why your best data is already sitting in your business. Every past buyer, every quote request, every form fill. Most of it is not being used. We also walk through what makes a strong email capture form, why the average website opt-in rate is only 1.95%, and the signs your email program is hurting more than helping. A stale list is worse than a small list. In this episode: Why email is more than a newsletter The numbers that make the case for email over paid and social How to turn your website into a real list-building tool What makes a strong email capture form Signs your email program is hurting more than helping What to build first instead of just sending more Customer question: How important are Google reviews? Featured project: Client Community Services https://www.clientcommunityservices.org/

    32 min

  8. Apr 20

    Measured: AI Overviews Are Stealing Paid Clicks, How to Adapt Your Google Ads Strategy

    AI Overviews are stealing paid clicks. Not on every query, but on the research-heavy ones advertisers spend the most on. In this episode of Measured, we break down how AI Overviews are changing paid search performance, why informational keywords are taking the biggest hit, and what advertisers can actually control. We talk through why a blended CTR number hides what is really happening in your account, which keyword types still hold up, and how to segment your paid search so the right campaigns stay protected. Customer question: Is it worth bidding on our own brand name? Featured project: Fillenwarth Beach (https://www.fillenwarthbeach.com/)

    21 min
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Measured is a marketing and data driven podcast hosted by Logan Wood. The show explores real world projects, industry trends, and performance insights to help businesses make smarter, more informed decisions.

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