Google Quietly Connected Your TikTok, YouTube & Instagram

This is a search term for how to write content that the AI search engines will cite. This is a Hrefs down here. This is Search Engine Land down here. Two massive brands, and somehow here is our video outranking all of them. And even better, we are being cited to create that AI overview. And last week, Google

quietly gave every single creator the exact data they need to make this repeatable. See, they quietly connected your Instagram, your TikTok, even your X and your YouTube directly to search, meaning your Google Search Console. It's a lot more important than a lot of people realize. Cuz this validates things that we've been saying for a long

while. That's no longer search engine optimization, but search everywhere optimization. Meaning that you want to optimize your entity, your brand everywhere as much as possible. I want to be really clear though about the data that this is showing you. I'm going to show you how to even connect this because I've got it in my Google Search

Console account. You see here that this is my actual YouTube account, and I've got my TikTok account. This isn't showing you how your TikTok account is performing on the TikTok application. You've got TikTok analytics for that, and the same with YouTube. This is showing you how these video platforms or social media platforms are performing in

the Google search engine. Because I'm sure you've seen this, right? You do a specific search, how to do a bicep curl for example, and the first thing that shows up isn't a blog post on how to do that, or even sometimes it's not even an AI overview, but it's a short-form video on how to do that. This is because