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Ep. 98 - Andy Crestodina: There's No Appeals Process when AI Picks Your School
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What happens when a prospective student asks ChatGPT for the best computer science program in the Midwest—and gets a complete answer without ever clicking on your website? For higher ed marketers who've spent 15 years optimizing for clicks, that shift changes everything. In this episode, host Jeff Dillon sits down with Andy Crestodina, co-founder and CMO of Orbit Media and author of Content Chemistry, to unpack what AI search really means for colleges and universities. Andy, who has been doing SEO for 25 years and teaches digital marketing at Northwestern, argues that the SEO playbook isn't dead—it's just expanded. The new goal isn't ranking; it's being cited. Andy explains why program…