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Monica Tomasso

Monica Tomasso helps brands get recommended when customers use ChatGPT and AI.

AEO

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The Weekly Firehose #22

Jul 14, 2026

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5 min read

The Weekly Firehose #22

The AI traffic map got rewritten. Claude grew 64x. Most brands haven't noticed.

Monica Tomasso
Monica Tomasso

AEO

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The Weekly Firehose #20

Jul 7, 2026

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4 min read

The Weekly Firehose #20

Welcome back. This week, the data on AI visibility is harder to ignore than ever: ChatGPT's reasoning modes behave like entirely different search engines, citation share is becoming a real competitive metric, and the brands winning AI recommendations are the ones who treated entity-building as infrastructure, not an afterthought. Let's dig in.

Monica Tomasso
Monica Tomasso
The Weekly Firehose, #19

Jun 29, 2026

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6 min read

The Weekly Firehose, #19

The week the data made it undeniable.

Monica Tomasso
Monica Tomasso
The Weekly Firehose #18, 4 things reshaping AI visibility this week, and what they mean for your business

Jun 23, 2026

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5 min read

The Weekly Firehose #18, 4 things reshaping AI visibility this week, and what they mean for your business

Google confirmed that AI Mode has surpassed one billion monthly users, with query volume more than doubling every quarter since launch. That number matters less than what sits inside it.

Monica Tomasso
Monica Tomasso
The Weekly Firehose #17: Some weeks the signal is hiding inside a single number.

Jun 9, 2026

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5 min read

The Weekly Firehose #17: Some weeks the signal is hiding inside a single number.

This week, Cloudflare's CEO confirmed something that was predicted for 2027. Google quietly handed you your first AI visibility dashboard, but left out the most important data point. And I ran my own platform on my own brand, and well, that was eye-opening!

Monica Tomasso
Monica Tomasso

AEO

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The Weekly Firehose Issue 16:  The Week AI Search Changed Everything

May 26, 2026

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5 min read

The Weekly Firehose Issue 16: The Week AI Search Changed Everything

Between May 21 and 26, three of the most significant events in the history of AI search

Monica Tomasso
Monica Tomasso
The Weekly Firehose Issue 15: Google just started tracking AI traffic. Here's what the data actually shows.

May 18, 2026

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3 min read

The Weekly Firehose Issue 15: Google just started tracking AI traffic. Here's what the data actually shows.

On May 13, Google added a dedicated AI traffic channel to GA4. The early numbers from businesses tracking it are hard to ignore.

Monica Tomasso
Monica Tomasso
Weekly Firehose, 14What Does Google's $40 Billion Anthropic Investment Mean for Your Brand?

May 5, 2026

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4 min read

Weekly Firehose, 14What Does Google's $40 Billion Anthropic Investment Mean for Your Brand?

Google's $40 billion investment in Anthropic is the clearest signal yet that AI answer engines — not traditional search — are the future of how people find information online.

Monica Tomasso
Monica Tomasso

AEO

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The Weekly Firehose Issue 13

Apr 28, 2026

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5 min read

The Weekly Firehose Issue 13

A lot happened this week in AI search : and most of it points in the same direction: the window to build LLM visibility is narrowing fast, and the brands moving now are pulling ahead.

Monica Tomasso
Monica Tomasso

AEO

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The Weekly Firehose Issue 12 Post

Apr 21, 2026

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3 min read

The Weekly Firehose Issue 12 Post

Google’s new rules, the 75 point blind spot, and the $42.5M citation pool.

Monica Tomasso
Monica Tomasso

AEO

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The Weekly Firehose Issue 11: Google Quality Signals, AI Search Blind Spots and the New Publisher Economy

Apr 14, 2026

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8 min read

The Weekly Firehose Issue 11: Google Quality Signals, AI Search Blind Spots and the New Publisher Economy

The era of the invisible brand is ending, if you're paying attention.

Monica Tomasso
Monica Tomasso

AEO

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The Weekly Firehose Issue 10: Shopping Engines, Source Bias and Machine Discovery

Apr 6, 2026

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13 min read

The Weekly Firehose Issue 10: Shopping Engines, Source Bias and Machine Discovery

From Easter Baskets to Enterprise Slack: How AI Agents are Rewriting the Rules of Search and Discovery

Monica Tomasso
Monica Tomasso

AI Search

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The Weekly Firehose Issue 9: The Near Me Revolution, Agentic Commerce, Googles E E A T Meets The AI Serp

Mar 30, 2026

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13 min read

The Weekly Firehose Issue 9: The Near Me Revolution, Agentic Commerce, Googles E E A T Meets The AI Serp

March 30, 2026

Monica Tomasso
Monica Tomasso
The Weekly Firehose Issue 8: The GA4 Ghost & The 30 Word Question post

Mar 23, 2026

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9 min read

The Weekly Firehose Issue 8: The GA4 Ghost & The 30 Word Question post

Monica Tomasso
Monica Tomasso

AI Search

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The Weekly Firehose Issue 7: The Great Search Collision post

Mar 16, 2026

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8 min read

The Weekly Firehose Issue 7: The Great Search Collision post

The window is closing faster than anyone predicted.AI SEARCH VISIBILITY INSIDERBy Monica Tomasso | AI Search Visibility Strategist

Monica Tomasso
Monica Tomasso
The Weekly Firehose Issue 6: From Search Volume to Brand Fame

Mar 9, 2026

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7 min read

The Weekly Firehose Issue 6: From Search Volume to Brand Fame

Monica Tomasso
Monica Tomasso

SEO

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Beyond the Website: Engineering for the RANK and LLM Era

Mar 3, 2026

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10 min read

Beyond the Website: Engineering for the RANK and LLM Era

Monica Tomasso
Monica Tomasso

AI Search

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The Weekly Firehose Issue 4: Press Releases as AI Fuel and Real World Wins

Feb 23, 2026

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9 min read

The Weekly Firehose Issue 4: Press Releases as AI Fuel and Real World Wins

Welcome to Issue 4 of The Weekly Firehose, where we track what actually works in AI visibility for growth stage SMBs and mid market firms across the nation.

Monica Tomasso
Monica Tomasso
The Weekly Firehose, Issue 3: Winning the Answer and Proofing your Brand

Feb 16, 2026

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8 min read

The Weekly Firehose, Issue 3: Winning the Answer and Proofing your Brand

Welcome back to The Weekly Firehose. This week, we are diving into the mechanics of how AI actually picks winners when someone asks for a recommendation

Monica Tomasso
Monica Tomasso
The Weekly Firehose: Reddit Gold and the Browser that Runs Your Business

Feb 15, 2026

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1 min read

The Weekly Firehose: Reddit Gold and the Browser that Runs Your Business

Article #2

Monica Tomasso
Monica Tomasso

AI Search

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The AI News Firehose: Why your "AI rank" is worthless (and what to track instead) Post

Jan 31, 2026

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6 min read

The AI News Firehose: Why your "AI rank" is worthless (and what to track instead) Post

Google's testing opt-outs, Chrome wants disclosure tags, and Rand Fishkin just destroyed AI rankings. Here's what actually matters.

Monica Tomasso
Monica Tomasso

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