GlobalFoundries Isn't Just Riding the AI Chip Wave- It's Betting the House

GlobalFoundries Isn’t Just Riding the AI Chip Wave- It’s Betting the House

GlobalFoundries Isn’t Just Riding the AI Chip Wave- It’s Betting the House

GlobalFoundries forecasts a stronger quarter with heavy data center chip demand. The numbers look good, but costs, competition, and scale still test profit margins.

GlobalFoundries has published a revenue forecast. And it definitely beats Wall Street expectations.

This surge stems from a brisk demand for its chips leveraged in data centers and AI infrastructure. The company witnessed first-quarter sales of over $1.63 billion, slightly above the consensus, and early trading reflected that with shares jumping over 7 percent.

At a glance, this is a textbook success story. Order books are full. Silicon photonics revenue (tech that uses light to shuttle data between servers) doubled over the past year and could double again.

That’s the sort of number every chipmaker loves to flash.

But there’s a subtext here that matters: GlobalFoundries is trying to balance growth with margin discipline in a business where both are notoriously hard to sustain. The company’s fourth-quarter numbers already beat estimates, but year-over-year revenue has been flat, and long lead times on capital equipment still hang over the sector.

A $500 million share buyback signals confidence, sure. But it also recognizes that the most straightforward way to boost shareholder returns now is financial engineering, rather than explosive growth.

And the competitive landscape is brutal. Giants like Taiwan Semiconductor and Intel dominate the world’s most advanced processes. Specialized niches like silicon photonics help carve out a position, but they aren’t enough on their own to redefine a foundry’s role in the AI ecosystem.

This quarter’s forecast is unexpected. Yet it also highlights a truth few want to say out loud: strong demand doesn’t magically solve the industry’s structural challenges.

GlobalFoundries is growing because the AI data center boom won’t quit. But turning demand into durable profitability and real strategic leverage- that’s the harder part still playing out.

SaaS Social Media Marketing Should Move Beyond the Feature-Dump for Real Growth

SaaS Social Media Marketing Should Move Beyond the Feature-Dump for Real Growth

SaaS Social Media Marketing Should Move Beyond the Feature-Dump for Real Growth

If your marketing team were eliminated, would your customers care? A guide to SaaS social media that trades vanity metrics for radical, technical truth.

The current state of SaaS social media marketing is essentially a sea of sameness.

If you scroll through LinkedIn or X right now, you’ll find a graveyard of “thrilled to announce” posts, generic stock photos of people in glass-walled offices, and “top 5” listicles that feel like they were written by someone who has never actually logged into a dashboard.

Most brands are treating social media like a digital billboard, i.e., a place to shout about their latest seed round or a minor UI update to a void of bots and polite employees.

But if you’ve analyzed the brands that actually develop a content-winning strategy, you realize they aren’t just posting content. They are documenting a worldview. They understand that in a world of infinite tool sprawl, people don’t buy software; they buy a better version of their workday.

To succeed, your social media strategy for SaaS must shift from being a distribution channel to becoming an ambient experience of your product.

Why Traditional SaaS Social Media Marketing Fails the Modern Buyer

The primary reason most B2B social media marketing feels so hollow is the identity crisis.

We assume that just because we sell to other businesses, we must speak in a business-like way. The results? Jargon-heavy posts that ignore the ‘human’ buyer on the other side of the screen. understand buyer behavior.

When a Senior Developer or a Marketing Manager follows your brand, they aren’t looking for a solution. They are looking for a status token. Content that makes them look more intelligent to their boss, insightful to their peers, or overall more efficient.

If your social feed doesn’t provide this professional capital, you are just creating noise. The nuance here is to stop marketing the tool and start marketing its purpose.

If your SaaS helps with project management, your social media should be the definitive voice on the psychology of productivity, not just a series of screenshots of your Gantt chart. For more on positioning and messaging, see SaaS Product Marketing: A Complete Guide.

Developing a SaaS Social Media Strategy Rooted in Purpose and Workflow

To build a SaaS social media strategy that truly sticks, you must look at the three distinct pillars of your digital existence: Identity, Artifacts, and Authority.

1. The Identity

Most SaaS companies follow the leader.

If their biggest competitor is posting “Productivity Tips,” they do the same. Real brand authority comes from having a contrarian POV. You need to identify the sacred cows of your industry and challenge them.

If the standard wisdom is that more data is better, and your SaaS is built on simplicity, your social media should be a relentless advocate for data minimalism. It creates a narrative moat that makes your competitors look like they are fighting a war that’s already over.

2. The Artifact

SaaS is invisible work. It’s code in the cloud.

To make it real, you must document your work’s progress in real-time. This is what the most successful SaaS startups are doing on X and Reddit. They don’t just launch a feature; they share the redacted Slack thread where two engineers argued for three hours about the logic of a specific button.

This isn’t building in public for the sake of transparency; it’s providing a genealogy for your product. Explore real-world examples in our SaaS Content Marketing Playbook. It proves that there are humans behind the code who care enough to fight over the details.

3. The Authority

Think of your social feed as the free trial of your brand’s personality.

Every post must be a tiny lesson that offers value even if the user never purchases your software. This aligns with the PLG model. Discover how to structure your campaigns in The SaaS Marketing Playbook. If your content solves a problem for a user today, they are 10x more likely to trust your software to solve a bigger problem tomorrow.

This is why “un-marketing-” content that looks like it came from a practitioner’s notebook performs well rather than a marketing agency.

SaaS Social Media Marketing Examples: Learning from the “Un-Marketers”

You see a pattern for all the best SaaS brands you see on social media: they lean into the messy reality of work.

Take a brand selling a cybersecurity solution. To see competitor tactics in action, check Spy on Your Competitors SaaS Marketing.

The standard marketing approach would be to post about “The Growing Threat of Ransomware.” A nuanced approach, one that actually captures lead generation, would be to share a raw screen recording of a developer attempting to hack their own system.

It’s visceral, it’s technical, and it shows the work in a way that a whitepaper never could.

Another example is the use of dark social. Learn more about measuring hidden influence in Beyond the Lead Score: How to Measure Dark Social Impact.

The most effective SaaS marketing doesn’t happen in the comments section; it happens in the private Slack channels and WhatsApp groups where the link to your post is shared with the caption, “We should be doing it this way.”

To win at SaaS social media marketing, you have to create content that is screenshot-worthy. You aren’t writing for the algorithm; you are writing for the person who wants to be the hero in their team’s internal chat.

The New Rules of Attribution for Your SaaS Social Media Strategy

There’s a single biggest hurdle to an impactful social media marketing strategy- obsession with last-click attribution. Understanding lead paths is crucial in Lead Generation for SaaS. If your CRM shows that a lead came through organic search, your marketing team might assume social media had no role.

But social is the catalyst in a nuanced SaaS journey.

A prospect might see your founder’s post on LinkedIn, then see a technical thread on X, and then, three months later, search for your brand on Google when their current system breaks. The SEO-optimization of your brand’s name begins on social media. Learn how to enhance search visibility with SEO for SaaS.

You aren’t just ranking for keywords; you are ranking for mindshare.

To measure this, move beyond the dashboard:

  1. Self-reported attribution.
  2. A “How did you hear about us?” field in your demo request form.

You will find that “LinkedIn” or “A post by [Employee Name]” appears far more often than your Google Analytics “Social” tab suggests. That’s the logic of dark social- the invisible influence that drives the highest-quality SaaS leads.

The Incomplete Narrative

Considering the future of SaaS, social media marketing is imperative here.

Successful brands stop trying to be perfect and try to be truly useful.

There’s a strange, open-ended tension in the software landscape right now. Tools surround us, yet we often feel more fragmented and overwhelmed than ever. Stay ahead of industry trends in AI SaaS Trends 2026

The opportunity for your brand is to be the voice that acknowledges this friction. What does it look like to market to a person’s purpose, rather than just their pain points? How do you build a social presence that feels like a collaborative space rather than a sales pitch?

The answer likely doesn’t involve a “Book a Demo” button on every post. It involves something much harder: being a brand that people actually want to see in their feed because you make their work feel more meaningful.

The goal of your social media shouldn’t be to get someone to buy your software today. Instead, track long-term conversion benchmarks in B2B SaaS Funnel Conversion Benchmarks. It should be to make them feel like you are the only team in the world that truly understands the problem they are trying to solve.

When you achieve that, the marketing part becomes secondary. The work speaks for itself.

The SaaSpocalypse: Why SEO is the Only Thing Saving SaaS from Itself

The SaaSpocalypse: Why SEO is the Only Thing Saving SaaS from Itself

The SaaSpocalypse: Why SEO is the Only Thing Saving SaaS from Itself

The SaaS industry is on dangerous ground. AI doesn’t just threaten marketers and developers, but everything that can be automated. However, SEO may present itself as an unlikely solution to this problem.

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That does sound like hyperbole, doesn’t it? But hear us out- what SEO?

It is optimizing your organization to be visible by generating content/tools that help your users. Unfortunately, in this regard, SaaS is in knee-deep sludge. One of the worst pieces of marketing advice comes from SaaS marketers because the content in SaaS is deceptive. To see how authentic content drives growth, check the SaaS Content Marketing Playbook.

It is meant to convert but not educate. And god, it’s the same topics on and on and on. Take any SaaS company and its YouTube channel- the content is cookie-cutter.

It’s either webinars or some low-grade stock-footage video. (Slidebean being the exception to this case)

But this has directly eroded trust. Silicon Valley, with its infinite wisdom, hedged all its bets on arbitrary solutions that have lost the plot to AI.

And the stock market reflects this reality.

SaaSpocalypse is an apt word for this condition. But what then? How does SEO save SaaS from an apocalypse? It’s easy- we actually focus on what SEO is- a way to share knowledge and build relationships.

There’s also a surprise download at the end that will help you audit your SEO positioning!

Why is SEO in SaaS one of the most important functions in its marketing?

SaaS has eroded trust in software. While some software is genuinely useful, most categories are populated by the same solutions. And with minor tweaks.

Of course, the market thrives on competition and pricing. But the competition ends when neither competitor can stand on the ground well enough to play the game. Then it’s chaos, and that’s where we find SaaS right now.

SaaS marketing and decision-making are abysmal. They are either absorbed by AI giants, become wrappers, or get wiped out. Maybe this is just a wave, and SaaS is here to stay for 10-20 years more.

The question you have to ask is: do your numbers reflect that?

If you know the answer, you can choose to read forward or not.

For those that do, here’s why SEO is so important.

The psychological lens

Knowledge is in abundance- YouTube is filled with productivity, marketing, software dev, and increase-your-revenue and increase MRR hacks.

Then there are academic papers and courses and LinkedIn gurus.

An infinite chain of value, and what are we left with? Most things don’t work. You’re still frustrated at the lack of growth that keeps asking more from you. But what is your response to it? To create more content. And now that you have AI, the volume has increased.

More webinars. More demos. More automation. More is more.

But revenue lags? Avoid this trap by following the strategies in B2B SaaS Funnel Conversion Benchmarks

Why?

Because there is a disconnect between the organization and the people it was created to serve.

People love exploration- it’s what got them hooked on social media, the dopamine hit of not knowing what will be next.

Google became such a big thing because it facilitated this exchange of knowledge and exploration. SEO became the cornerstone of marketing.

For a simple reason: people love to explore and consume knowledge to help them make better decisions. And that’s where search is failing right now.

The SaaS SEO Problem

SEO is meant to improve user experience through on-page and off-page optimization. For step-by-step guidance, see SaaS Marketing Tools

  1. You build authority by building backlinks and keyword strategies
  2. You solve problems that your ICP is dealing with through your solution.

Guess what? Most companies are not really bothering with either because they are now optimizing for AIO, GEO, or AEO. Learn practical SaaS strategies in B2B SaaS Marketing Principles. They’ve skipped steps before building the SEO funnel, which is very important to be discovered, even by the LLMs.

And the second is this: SaaS SEO is focused on getting the maximum number of visitors. Not solving specific pain points in their niche- where SaaS actually shines.

The bottom line is always sales or form submissions, with the optimization the usual SaaS companies go for, and it has caused a problem.

People don’t click on links anymore.

  1. Because AI overviews provide an answer.
  2. Because sponsored content dominates search
  3. Because people are conditioned to expect low-quality information on Google searches.
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See how skewed the results are. But that also means the problem isn’t limited to SaaS.

The LLMs

LLMs have changed search. Of course, they have. It’s a natural language processor right at our fingertips. They might not be accurate, but at least they exist. And that’s why your CEO is pressurizing you to adopt GEO or AEO.

But LLMs work on the same principles as Google’s bots. They search for authority, mentions, and expertise because it is in the best interest of AI companies to cite the best sources, which they aren’t doing, but they will soon.

Yet, teams are skipping the most vital step in website and user experience building- solving real problems of real people.

For example, let’s search: how do I manage workflows for my team of 4 marketers?

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Except for FounderOS and MorningMate, the rest are just editorials. Many tools focus on workflow management, but they don’t reflect real-time problems.

Tools like Asana, Monday.com, and Trello worked because they understood problems. Many new workflow SaaS tools try to copy them, but don’t understand that the marketing teams used SEO to understand and answer real-time problems of their core buyer.

This answers a singular question we raised: SEO is important because it helps answer queries at a specific time of need. See how lead generation fits into this in Lead Generation for SaaS. SEMRush did this back in 2010 when they released tons of SEO courses and how-tos, which were high-level and almost unheard of by an organization.

The same goes for HubSpot. But today’s SEO is devoid of such things, impacting people’s trust in SaaS.

How do you improve organic traffic for your SaaS platform?

Organic traffic.

That’s the question and the answer to the problem. Organic implies there is no force behind it.

There is thought, yes. But not force. We will do two things: first, let’s answer the question without the fluff. Organic traffic improves by answering queries of a particular segment. Learn more about optimizing user experience in SaaS Inbound Marketing.

This involves:

  1. Understanding the buyer through data and observation.
  2. Getting objections from sales and solving the pain points in real time, and publishing them.

This doesn’t mean you don’t cover broader topics; they exist to build authority, but the niche topics exist to get you organic traffic and sales. That is as clear as it can get.

Backlink building, on-page, and UI/UX are to improve bot readability.

Second, let’s talk about the elephant in the room, something you can concretely take to the CEO.

Organic traffic is not down because of LLMs; Google has started favoring sponsored content. There’s a reason the traffic has dipped, but people have conflated it with AI’s rise. Ask any SEO expert or consultant- they’ll tell you just how skewed the results are.

But, luckily, people are still searching for content online. Amplify your reach using strategies from SaaS Marketing Insights 2026. Especially, YouTube and LinkedIn via trusted sources. This is because exploration is an inherent quality. Don’t let the numbers fool you; the path to revenue is built on problem-solving.

Yes, that takes time. But it compounds- isn’t that what you want to show the board? Y-o-Y growth! Then why not invest in it?

Download your SEO Positioning Test

Publishers Aren’t Operating on A Free-For-All Model Any Longer

Publishers Aren’t Operating on A Free-For-All Model Any Longer

Publishers Aren’t Operating on A Free-For-All Model Any Longer

The New York Times sued OpenAI in 2024. And OpenAI responded to the NYT, citing demands on ChatGPT content retention as an overreach.

OpenAI prioritized user privacy. But overlooked publisher rights.

In short, no publication was compensated for training AI models on their content. The days when AI companies scraped data for free are long over.

And that has led us here- to Amazon launching a content marketplace for AI content licensing, coupling it with its own AI products like Bedrock and Quick Suite.

The e-commerce giant is the second to pay heed to publishers’ rights (just after Microsoft announced its own a week ago).

But what if that’s not the whole picture?

It’s ignorant to assume Amazon’s entry as a simple expansion plan. Because when materialized, the business would become the gatekeeper for all sources of truth- for AI models. It’ll help regulate which content is legally usable, defining how well a model works.

That changes the whole game.

For creators, the purpose of their work might overlap. But its value can never be glossed over. Amazon’s marketplace will shift that.

Content is now a commodity, losing its expression. It’s algorithms and licensing fees that’ll determine a content’s value.

Works of intellect and passion turned into raw material- that might be the future we’re opting for. All the while, Amazon turns the flow and logistics of ideas into AI training fodder.

OpenAI is Finally Rolling Out Test Ads on Its Platform; Promises It Wouldn't Affect Search Results

OpenAI is Finally Rolling Out Test Ads on Its Platform; Promises It Wouldn’t Affect Search Results

OpenAI is Finally Rolling Out Test Ads on Its Platform; Promises It Wouldn’t Affect Search Results

OpenAI is finally launching its ad pilot program on ChatGPT. As the agencies fight over placements, could it truly instill the eroding trust back into the masses?

Since its rollout, ChatGPT has been the trendiest AI platform across the web. Even when there were speculations that it could go into bankruptcy this year, it’s still managed to have every ounce of the limelight. And its Super Bowl ad segment has only added to the whispers.

OpenAI wants to become AI’s Kleenex- it wants to be the practical go-to choice for creativity, work, and problem-solving for everyday challenges. You can build crafts and run a business- all with ChatGPT. According to the ad, the AI superpower wants you to believe this tech isn’t to set like an egg timer, but to change what’s possible- to unravel new frontiers.

That isn’t a small ask.

Users have grown skeptical of this modern tech- well, with all the slop and privacy issues, can you blame them? This promise, which once seemed like an appealing fantasy, has turned into caution.

And now it’s finally starting to roll out ads on its platform. Some of the leading agencies are already purchasing placements.

It’s uncanny- how would these ads work on an AI assistant, or even come to change how users conduct their AI inquiries?

OpenAI has an answer. In one of the Super Bowl ad segments, Anthropic criticizes OpenAI’s ad plans for ChatGPT- citing that ads will transform organic search results. But the former disagrees.

ChatGPT will essentially become the nucleus for brands to introduce products and services that users wouldn’t find through organic interactions. It’ll offer these businesses a new avenue for discovery and visibility. Dentsu is also one of the major leagues.

This ad pilot program could turn how agencies navigate marketing and selling in the new AI phase. LLMs are forecasted to become the new frontier for media. And there’s a diversity of formats- the AI assistant isn’t sticking to a basic one. Each ad will have the “sponsored” label and be mentioned under the organic results, directing users directly into a chat with respective businesses.

Working closely in tandem with market leaders such as Omnicom Media? The AI giant definitely knows what it’s doing.

ChatGPT may not be as sophisticated as other digital ad platforms. But that’s not even a part of its allure for ad agencies. The allure is that GPT is the hottest AI chatbot, with over 800 million users as of now. That offers them enough reason to go to war over the ad placements on there.

It’s merely the preface to brands pivoting to marketing themselves digitally. As buyers turn to conversational interfaces, it only makes us think: this is just a tiny glimpse into an AI-first marketing age.

Your Funnel is Failing- And Here's Why: The Vamped B2B SaaS Growth Marketing Strategy

Your Funnel is Failing- And Here’s Why: The Vamped B2B SaaS Growth Marketing Strategy

Your Funnel is Failing- And Here’s Why: The Vamped B2B SaaS Growth Marketing Strategy

Most B2B SaaS growth marketing strategies are built on a foundation that no longer exists. They rely on the linear funnel model:

You purchase an ad => someone clicks a link => they download a whitepaper => an SDR calls them.

In 2026, that process is broken. Modern SaaS marketing insights for 2026 already reflect this collapse of the linear funnel.

Modern buyers don’t move in straight lines. They move in loops. They research in private communities, trial products before talking to humans, and switch vendors the moment a tool feels like “work.”

Stop looking at growth as a series of disconnected tactics if you want scalable B2B SaaS growth marketing strategy. Instead, view it as a unified system of three distinct, non-overlapping phases:

  1. Demand gen
  2. Product-led acquisition
  3. Customer expansion

Building a B2B SaaS Growth Marketing Strategy Through Narrative

Most SaaS companies focus on capturing demand, i.e., bidding on keywords for people already looking for a solution. But the real winners create demand. You achieve this by moving beyond feature-dumping and toward a specific philosophy of work. But sustainable growth requires structured lead generation for SaaS that shapes demand before it exists.

Positioning as a Competitive Advantage

SEO isn’t just about keywords; it’s about search intent, positioning, and smart SEO for SaaS.

If you target the keyword “project management software,” you are competing with giants on price and feature lists. But if you target the purpose behind that search, you change the game.

Your growth strategy should lead with apoint of view. That’s the narrative that makes your competitors look like they are living in the past. You aren’t just selling a CRM; you are selling the end of manual data entry. When you market a philosophy, you don’t have to fight for attention. You earn it by being the only logical choice for a specific type of buyer and that philosophy must be reflected across your SaaS content playbook.

Navigating the Dark Social Ecosystem

A huge portion of your B2B SaaS growth marketing strategy happens where you can’t see it. It’s the Slack channels, the peer-to-peer DMs, and the Reddit threads.

Instead of trying to track these spaces, you must influence them. That requires information gain- sharing insights that aren’t just recycled versions of what’s already on page one of Google. If your content doesn’t offer a new perspective or a unique data set, it won’t be shared.

In the era of AI-generated noise, original thought is the only thing that earns a spot in the private conversations of your buyers.

Optimizing the SaaS Conversion Path

Once you’ve generated interest, the next logical step in our MECE framework is the transition from a visitor to a user. This is where the Customer Acquisition Cost (CAC) is either justified or wasted and that is why disciplined SaaS metrics tracking becomes non-negotiable.

Moving From Gated Content to Utility-Led Growth

The gated PDF is dead. No one wants to give their phone number to a “SaaS Growth Marketing Guide” written by a bot. Instead, modern strategies use Utility-Led Growth.

It means building micro-products that live on your website.

If you sell financial software, build a free burn rate calculator. If you sell SEO tools, build a keyword gap analyzer.

These tools provide immediate value without the friction of a sales call. They allow the user to self-serve their way into your ecosystem. When a user experiences a win with your free tool, the psychological barrier to trying your paid product disappears.

Reducing “Time to Value” (TTV) in Onboarding

The most critical moment in your B2B SaaS growth marketing strategy isn’t the sign-up; it’s the first five minutes of the trial. If your product is powerful, but takes three weeks to set up, you have a retention problem disguised as an acquisition problem.

High-growth SaaS companies focus on Time to Value. Your onboarding flow should be a sprint to the “Aha!” moment. This is the exact point where the user realizes how your tool will save their day.

Customer Retention and Expansion

The final piece of our framework is where most companies fail. They treat marketing as an “Acquisition-only” department. But in SaaS, the real growth happens after the first transaction. This is the Customer Lifetime Value (LTV) phase.

Engineering Internal Virality

In B2B, the user is rarely just one person. It’s a team. Your strategy should focus on how the product spreads horizontally within an organization.

If one person in the marketing department uses your tool, how does the sales department find out about it? This isn’t just about “referral links.” It’s about building features that require collaboration.

When your product becomes the source of truth for multiple departments, your churn rate drops to near zero. You aren’t just a tool anymore; you are the infrastructure. And infrastructure is the foundation of reducing churn in SaaS.

Turning Retention into an Acquisition Channel

The nuance most blogs miss is that your current customers are your most effective marketing team. But they won’t advocate for you just because your tool works. They advocate for you when you make them look like heroes. Which is why retention strategy must sit inside your broader SaaS marketing playbook.

Your marketing should focus on customer-to-customer value. Build a community where your power users can share their success stories. When a prospective buyer sees a peer solving a similar problem using your software, the social proof is worth more than a million-dollar ad budget.

SEO Logistics: How This Strategy Fits Together

You asked how the headings relate. The logic follows the SaaS buyer journey chronologically and logically:

  1. Demand gen (Identity): How the world finds out you exist and why they should care. That targets top-of-funnel keywords and brand-building.
  2. Product-led acquisition (Entry): How you turn that interest into a user. That targets conversion keywords and product-led search intent.
  3. Customer expansion (Compound): How you turn a user into a lifelong, expanding revenue source. That targets retention and LTV metrics.

You cannot have expansion without acquisition, and you cannot have acquisition without demand.

The Missing Nuance

The standard guides neglect that B2B buyers are human. They are afraid of change. They are afraid of software that adds more work to their plate.

Your B2B SaaS growth marketing strategy must address this friction head-on. Use conversational, transparent language. Acknowledge that switching tools is hard. By being the most “human” brand in a sea of robotic competitors, you create a level of resonance that no algorithm can replicate.

Your B2B SaaS Growth Marketing Strategy Should Be Purpose-Driven

Growth isn’t a result of a single viral post or a perfectly optimized ad campaign. It’s the result of a system where your marketing, your product, and your customer success are all speaking the same language. It’s built on disciplined execution of core SaaS marketing principles.

When you align your strategy with the actual purpose of your user’s work, you stop being a vendor and start being a partner.

That’s the only growth strategy that is truly SEO-proof, because while algorithms change. But the human need for useful and reliable solutions does not.