Retailers are SEO'ing themselves into irrelevance

So retailers are now scrambling to make their sites rank in ChatGPT and Gemini results, which is just SEO for someone else’s storefront. But here’s the trap: they’re optimizing for algorithms they don’t control to drive traffic through interfaces where they lose the customer data they actually care about.

This is different from going mobile-friendly 15 years ago. Back then, the web was still theirs.

source: Retailers are updating their websites to rank highly in…