Hi, my name is Steven Kang.
As a professional marketing consultant and a business owner, I used to live inside 12,000-word pillar articles, forensic audits, and 6-month content plans for large and small clients.
I still remember one pillar page we spent 8 weeks building. It hit #1 on Google for a money keyword.
"#1 on Google… but ChatGPT kept recommending our competitor."
We all know what that means.
Traffic still came in. But the buyers? They were asking the LLM "who should I hire for this" — and the LLM wasn't saying our name.
And that client wasn't the only one. I watched more #1 rankings quietly lose revenue than I'd like to admit.
Truth is, I hated every second of watching it happen.
So I pulled every post across every client — the ones LLMs were quoting, and the ones they were ignoring…
…and noticed something INTERESTING:
I spent the next 18 months pressure-testing it across print shops, ecommerce stores, local services, and SaaS. Same pattern. Every time.
That pattern is the whole course.