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Dale Mueller retweeted
We underestimate how much friendship is built in the boring parts.
Driving somewhere together. Chopping vegetables while someone talks. Wandering through a grocery store. Sitting on the couch with nothing important to say.
Social media trained us to think connection should always be memorable enough to document, but intimacy is often just two nervous systems learning that nothing special has to happen for being together to feel good.
Dale Mueller retweeted
If I had one magic wand, I’d make everyone understand this: AI only amplifies who you already are and how you already work.
It won’t save you if you’re lazy, careless, or just trying to move fast without thinking. Using AI to “work quickly” is a trap if you’re not using your judgment and common sense.
Dale Mueller retweeted
My progress always looks the same:
Start → suck → grind for months/years with no noticeable progress → suddenly look up after a long time and it’s 3x better.
Fitness: no change for months. “why isn’t this working!?” then after 6 months of consistent behavior, I see a before/after photo and am unrecognizable. Then the after photo becomes the baseline for next 6 months.
Business: I feel the same for years. “I don’t feel like a better, more mature leader. Am I not reading enough books!?” Then one day I see my work from 3 years ago realize I’ve leveled up completely.
KEEP GOING! That’s the hard part!!
Dale Mueller retweeted
Look, I get that this post won't make me too popular on X, but...
A lot of restaurants are bleeding $15,000 to $40,000 per month in potential revenue from one completely fixable mistake.
And as someone who loves eating at restaurants, I can’t stay quiet about it anymore.
Here’s how to patch that hole, without hiring any outside help.
Over the past year, the smartest operators have quietly been leveraging traditional SEO + AI Search Optimization to grow organic discovery, Maps, and ChatGPT local recommendations.
Let me show you how to do it, too.
But before we dive in...
If you want the “unconfirmed” cheat codes we’ve tested to get restaurants inside ChatGPT answers in ~30 days, Follow + RT + Comment “SEO Stuff Restaurant Guide” and I'll DM it to you.
You must do all 3 for the DM.
Let's start at the top.
AI engines (ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, Perplexity) still rely on authority, but not in the same way.
Google ranks backlinks, certain structures, and keywords.
ChatGPT, Perplexity and Gemini rank brand trust, consistency, and off-site reputation along with particularly types of content structures and formats.
Backlinks matter for AI search, but differently than traditional search.
For example, do-follows matter more for traditional search.
Not so much for AI search.
Meanwhile in the case of AI search you want backlinks and mentions from sites already appearing prominently in AI search.
In traditional search, a super niche relevant site that may not be ranking highly but has good traffic and strong authority could boost you a lot.
So let's get back to restaurants.
Here is what helps:
Backlinks from locally trusted or niche food sites
Brand mentions in city guides, “Best of [City]” lists, and lifestyle newsletters
Entity consistency across every listing (NAP, schema, menus, reviews)
LLMs also ingest semantic mentions, even when your restaurant name isn’t linked.
That means mentions on Reddit, Medium, Substack, or tourism blogs directly improve your chances of being cited.
Free backlink + authority plays:
Get featured in AI-cited “Best of [City]” roundups
Pitch neighborhood newsletters, lifestyle Substacks, or local foodie creators
Sponsor charity events or festivals (ask for backlinks in press recaps)
Submit to city tourism dining guides + high-trust directories
Offer chef interviews or recipes to local bloggers
Or use SEO Stuff’s Premium Backlink Bundle, which delivers 3 DR50+ links from sites already appearing in ChatGPT, Perplexity and Gemini.
Find it over at seo stuff dot com.
Now let's talk Google Business Profiles.
Your Google Business Profile (GBP) now powers visibility across Google Maps, AI Overviews, etc.
Checklist:
Upload a ton of geo-tagged photos (menu items, staff, events, exterior)
Annotate menu items (vegan, gluten-free, seasonal, chef’s pick)
Post weekly specials or updates
Add ALT text with dish + city (“Shrimp Scampi - West Hollywood”)
Use attributes: dog-friendly, rooftop, live music, etc.
Reply to every review using service + city terms (“Thanks for joining us for sushi in Culver City!”)
ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity and Bing all pull data directly from GBP fields and Q&A.
Treat GBP like your top-of-funnel content platform.
And make sure you're optimizing for the right queries.
People aren’t typing “best restaurant near me” anymore.
They’re asking conversational questions like:
“Quiet brunch spots with outdoor seating in Studio City”
“Best dog-friendly rooftop tacos near Silver Lake”
“Romantic restaurants with private dining in Santa Monica”
“Late-night Thai food open past 11 in West Hollywood”
These exact queries show up in ChatGPT and Gemini AI Overviews right now.
Use SEO Stuff Keyword Explorer to find local long-tail terms (100–1,000 search volume, KD < 35) and turn them into:
Meta titles + H1s on location pages
Blog posts (“5 Romantic Spots in Santa Monica for Date Night”)
Menu schema with detailed dish info and pricing
Internal links from blogs to menus to reservation pages
This layered structure helps both Google and AI engines see your brand as contextually relevant.
Now let's talk technical SEO.
You don’t need a fancy website that looks nice because in reality nobody cares how a restaurant's website looks.
In fact, they all suck by default for the most part.
You need a site that loads fast, renders cleanly, and is easy for crawlers, human and AI, to interpret.
Checklist:
Load time < 2.5 seconds (especially on mobile)
Schema: LocalBusiness, Restaurant, Review, Menu
Structured, searchable menus with dietary filters
Sticky buttons for “Reserve,” “See Menu,” “Call”
Mobile-first responsive layout
Live chat or SMS widget (AI crawlers detect interactivity as a trust signal)
Test your site using ChatGPT or Claude’s dev tools, if it can’t parse your content easily, fix it immediately.
Now let's talk content.
Static menus don’t win anymore.
Context-rich, story-driven, structured content does.
Ideas that perform:
“5 Best Date Night Spots in [Neighborhood]”
“The Story Behind Our Chef’s Seasonal Menu”
“How to Host a Private Dinner for 20 Guests at [Your Restaurant]”
“Our Guide to Pairing Wine With [Signature Dish]”
Formatting best practices:
Start with a 2–3 sentence TL;DR (AI extracts this for summaries)
Use H2s with meal types, dishes, or neighborhoods
Embed short-form video with captions and schema
Include downloadable event or catering menus
Gemini and Perplexity favor multi-format pages that combine structured text, media, and schema, it feels “complete” to the model.
And please don't sleep on the importance of reviews.
Reviews are no longer just social proof, they’re training data.
AI models scrape them for tone, keywords, and local authenticity.
Best practices:
Place QR codes on tables linking to your GBP review page
Send SMS or email review requests after meals
Display top reviews on-site with timestamps and sentiment stars
Include phrases like “Read 1,200+ reviews of [Restaurant] on Google” to boost branded search
Reply with full sentences mentioning cuisine + location
ChatGPT and Perplexity often lift review snippets directly into AI summaries, every new review is a visibility boost.
Also, I know this is controversial, but a grown-up marketing strategy includes paid promotion.
Paid ads don’t directly rank you in AI search, but they influence click patterns and entity confidence.
Ad plays that feed AI engagement loops:
Google Ads for “[Cuisine] near me” + “[Meal Type] [Neighborhood]”
Instagram geo-radius ads (dishes, staff, ambience)
YouTube Shorts retargeting with behind-the-scenes prep videos
Boost top-performing blog posts to trigger “popular in local search” signals
Every engagement touchpoint creates off-site mentions and click data, which AI scrapers notice.
Also, LLMs reward businesses that show real-world community presence.
Publish:
Event recaps with local mentions (“West Hollywood Food Festival 2025”)
Chef interviews or kitchen stories
Charity partnerships or sourcing transparency posts
Seasonal ingredient spotlights
Mention local suppliers, farms, or influencers by name, these semantic co-occurrences associate you with other trusted entities in the dataset.
Now let's talk analytics.
Measure what actually matters:
Branded search volume (Google Search Console)
AI Overview appearances (ChatGPT, Gemini, Bing)
Review growth + response rate
Calls, reservations, and direction requests
Referrals from local blogs or directories
Off-site brand mentions (Reddit, TikTok, Medium)
AI visibility improves with behavioral feedback. When users engage positively (click, read, call, review), LLMs treat your entity as higher trust in future citations.
90-Day Restaurant SEO + AI Growth Roadmap:
Month 1:
Fully optimize Google Business Profile
Audit site speed, schema, and mobile UX
Build or update location + menu pages
Launch review generation workflow
Month 2:
Publish 3 local blog posts targeting AI-searchable queries
Secure 10+ backlinks from local blogs, magazines, or news sites
Embed short-form videos in homepage and top service pages
Post weekly updates across GBP + Instagram
Month 3:
Run ads for “near me” and branded terms
Pitch city guides and AI-indexed directories
Track calls, reservations, and branded search growth
Monitor AI Overview and ChatGPT visibility with SEO Stuff tools
By Day 90, your restaurant should be visible across:
Google Maps
ChatGPT local answers
Gemini and Bing AI Overviews
Perplexity local cards
Claude dining summaries
While your competitors are still begging Yelp to send them traffic.
Want it done for you?
SEO Stuff’s Gold Plan handles backlinks, keywords, content, and AI readiness in one shot.
Check it out over at seo stuff dot com.
And if you want the private “unconfirmed” cheat codes for ChatGPT visibility, Follow + RT + Comment “SEO Stuff Restaurant Guide.”
You must do all 3 for the DM.
Dale Mueller retweeted
I built a Morning Brew-style daily newsletter that writes itself with AI (now at 10,000 daily readers)
(and I’m nuts for open-sourcing it)
The AI system behind @therecapai clones how a human writer would function, but each step is packaged into an agentic workstream.
The full automation handles:
- Daily scrapping hundreds of reddit threads, hackernews, twitter posts, Google news API to build a massive data lake of 'daily AI news'
- Dozens of custom prompts to pull the top daily stories from this data lake, write short breakdowns, & format the newsletter
- Builds custom images based on each story with ChatGPT image generator
This was 5 MONTHS of iterating and fine-tuning prompts to get the output and content to an extremely high quality state (no AI slop)
and call me crazy, but I'm giving it away for free.
Just Retweet, follow me, and comment on this thread "NEWSLETTER"
and I'll DM you the full n8n template that you can copy/paste and fine-tune to your use-case as well as a full hour long video breakdown explaining the build.
Also you can see the actual contents of the newsletter for yourself with the link below—proof of the quality that is possible with AI.
RIP media companies 💀 AI is here.
Dale Mueller retweeted
Many people dislike some parts of their jobs. But they stay in their jobs because their suffering is familiar. To change would be to trade the known for the unknown and change brings discomfort in hard to predict forms. So people avoid change and develop coping strategies.
They learn to sidestep the manipulative manager, or like me, change jobs every couple of years, plan vacations, stay busy, and get drunk during the weekend. Play this game long enough without becoming too burned out and you might end up getting promoted.
Dale Mueller retweeted
I committed to monkhood.
Now I’m selling The Ultimate Sales Machine.
I wasn’t planning on announcing my monkhood until after the sale… but then I realized I was hiding. And if I’m truly committed to finding the right steward for my family’s legacy, I can’t hold back now.
For 13 years, I carried The Ultimate Sales Machine—protecting it, evolving it, doing everything I could to ensure my father’s work lived on.
This decision didn’t come easily. But I’ve debated this spiritual path for 14 years—and I’m finally ready to accept what I know is my true destiny. I even told my father about this before he passed.
Once he was gone, I stepped into his business—out of duty, grief, and love.
Now, it’s time to find someone who will take it even further.
I NEED YOUR HELP! If:
👉 The Ultimate Sales Machine has impacted you, please share this post.
📩 You know someone who might want to buy it? Tag them below.
🔗 You think it might be you? Fill out the form (link in comments)
For potential buyers, here’s some highlights. The Ultimate Sales Machine is:
• A platform beloved by 255,000+ businesses
• A timeless proven system that’s helped clients generate billions in sales
• A cult classic book, translated in 16 languages, still selling thousands per year without ads
• A loyal audience hungry for real leadership
This is your chance to build on one of the most trusted marketing & sales brands in the world.
We’ve already had serious buyers. But I’d regret not opening the door to others—just in case the next steward is someone in my own community.
I want to thank my Guru—Sarva Loka Maa Her Holiness Sri Sri Sri 1008 Guruji Poonamji. She helped me find the courage to step into this business—and now, she’s given me the clarity to step into my true purpose.
Building a 1,000-acre healing center unlike anything that exists today is the next step. (More on that later.)
If this resonates—or if you know the next person who can carry my father’s legacy business forward—I’d be forever grateful for your support.
With a bit of fear… and a whole lot of trust,
Amanda
Dale Mueller retweeted
On Finding Your People:
I’m told I have an unusual talent for finding wonderful people. Below is my strategy for having a rich social life in any large city
Disclaimer: This will require you acting in a way that is not normal. You may need to decide whether you want to be normal yet lonely or unusual yet connected
0. Treat it as a second job.
For millennia, our social connections were supplied by ancestry, religion, class, neighborhood, local clubs, etc. Now, for most folks who read this, we live in the age of atomization. Our social connections are simply not handed to us. So you have to be unusually proactive in finding them. I cannot emphasize this proactivity piece enough. IMO it’s the main difference these days between lonely and non-lonely urbanites
1. Do your research.
Yes, unless you get lucky, finding your people requires RESEARCH. If I’m in a new city, here’s what I do:
Do you know at least one person? Ask that person to show you the most interesting scenes in the city. Beyond that…
• The Couchsurfing site filters for high-openness people. Consider crashing across different neighborhoods to get a sense of the city and meet hosts, who often like to show people around
• Dating apps sometimes help (but are also a hellscape 🤷♂️)
• Search event listings. Google “event listings [city]” & go to things that interest you. Check Facebook for events
• Go to meetups on Meetup
• Search unis and cultural institutions for interesting talks. These talks might attract ppl like you into the audience. You can also approach the speaker and ask where you can find groups that care about their subject matter
• Search Atlas Obscura for unusual establishments. Unusual places attract unusual people
• Google for classes and join them. Specifically *take ones that afford social interaction.” Partner dancing is always a good bet
• Make a giant list of things you enjoy. Then search Google/Meetup/FB for groups doing them (eg DnD, contact improv)
2. Go there.
Now get outside and physically put yourself in many well-curated rooms. (They can be curated by a person with good taste or by a subject - eg “science poetry night,”) When I say "put yourself in many rooms, I mean, say, at least 3 per week
3. Scan the room.
Look for people who magnetize you. Things I usually look for here:
• Especially awake eyes
• Animated body language
• Engagement (eg they’re staring especially hard at a painting in the gallery, taking notes)
• I just like their vibe
4. Meet.
Now for the scary part: meeting fellow hoomans! Some things that trip people up at this stage:
• "What if they reject me?" Who cares? Why would you want to keep talking to someone who doesn’t notice your worth? Their loss
• “How do I open?” People focus too much on this. If there's a strong connection, any opener will do, including "Hey." But if it helps here are a few: Compliment one of their items of clothing. Refer to shared context: "How was your dance?" "What brings you to this mediation group?" Often a combo of these two is good. You: "Cool shoes!" Them: "Thank you!" You: "What did you think of that lecture?"
• "I'm too self-conscious tho." Yeah, true, it helps to stop thinking of how you look and sound when you first meet someone. Focus on THEM. What about them are you curious about?
• "But I'm an introvert." Believe it or not, I am too. But introverts need connection and social support too. Meet other introverts so you can sit in the same room together while reading, etc.
• Important more for women than men: Don't get stuck in a long interaction that isn't working for you. Here is a line that can end most conversations: "What was your name again? Oh Steve. I'm Tyler. Nice to meet you, I'll see you around" [extend hand for handshake]. If they're not taking the cue, go to the bathroom
5. Get contact info.
Ppl always fail at this part. If you had a positive interaction, exchange info! If you need an excuse, you can think of something that would be valuable for them based on their interests. ("I need to send you this video/event." "You should meet my friend, who's also a manga writer.") But really you can just offer your contact info. (In NYC you can say, "Are you on Insta?" In this city, instagram is the low-commitment way of giving someone your info.)
6. Follow up.
I recommend doing this either the same or next day. If it was a strong connection, invite them to hang 1-1: coffee/lunch/a walk. If it wasn't so firmly established, invite them to some sort of group container. (eg a party, a reading, etc – something you know they'll be interested in)
7. Keep in touch.
Let's say that now you've formed an awesome connection. Maybe you're three or four hangouts in. It's not uncommon that, with busy urban lives, people drift apart. Our demographic tends to lack the sorts of community containers that – once upon a time – kept us seeing each other regularly (like Sunday church or civic associations). So suggest one! Some ideas for regularly meeting up:
• The gym
• Meditation
• A weekly class
• Coworking
OR: you could create your own container and benefit other lonely people too:
• A book club
• A salon
• Sunday brunch club
Social fabric is falling apart everywhere. I think we need what I call community entrepreneurs to weave it back together. These are the dinner party hosts, the club creators, the people who – when going to a concert – invite their friends to bring +1s. Consider becoming one
Dale Mueller retweeted
Always stick to what makes you weird, odd, strange, different. That’s your source of power.
Dale Mueller retweeted
Your boss isn’t responsible for your career.
HR isn’t responsible for your growth.
Your mentor isn’t responsible for your next promotion.
Nobody cares about your success as much as you do. Act accordingly.
Dale Mueller retweeted
🇨🇦 healthcare system is stuck in the last century.
In ON, doctors send 150M faxes (faxes!) a year. 1 in 10 go to the wrong person. People die everyday because their records are unavailable.
Your health records should be available instantly to you and any doctor that needs it.
Dale Mueller retweeted
Hey Microsoft please stop trying to invent God and just make Outlook search work.
Dale Mueller retweeted
Police across the Lower Mainland and Fraser Valley will be “lighting up the highway” tonight to raise public awareness of the dangers and consequences of driving while impaired by alcohol and/or drugs.
#LightUpTheHwy #GetHomeSafeBC
