SEO and GEO strategies from nine experts at Sydney SEO Conference 2026
Nine SEO and GEO experts spoke at Sydney SEO Conference 2026. I watched all 3.5 hours: trust beats relevance, 95% of AI citations are junk, and they disagree.
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About Emre Elbeyoglu
Founder, GrowthMarketing.ai
Emre is a growth marketer, maker, and entrepreneur with 15 years in SEO and growth. He reverse-engineers data to understand how search engines and AI ranking systems choose what to surface, then applies those findings to customer acquisition and product growth.
He co-founded Flatart in 2013 and worked with Investing.com, Rakuten, and EuroDNS. In 2019, he launched Popupsmart, an AI-powered CRO platform used by 600+ clients, followed by LiveChatAI in 2023. WIRED covered LiveChatAI’s use of GPT-4, Llama, and Mistral.
His research focuses on how technology stacks reveal buyer intent, budget, and readiness. This approach tripled demo requests for his SaaS, as detailed in an Indie Hackers case study. He launched GrowthMarketing.ai in 2024 to publish the experiments and results behind his work. View Emre’s full profile.
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