<b>You spent a decade fighting for position zero. That was the trap.</b>

<b>You spent a decade fighting for position zero. That was the trap.</b>
Every featured snippet you won trained Google to answer the query without you. You volunteered to be the dataset. AI Overviews are just the snippet that finally stopped linking back.
<b>The pages winning AI citations now are the ones that never optimized for snippets — they optimized to be the source a snippet steals from.</b>
If your whole content model was "answer the question in 40 words," you built your own replacement. Tell me I'm wrong.