Using SEO principles to optimize product feed visibility

Voices of Search // A Search Engine Optimization (SEO) & Content Marketing Podcast40mApril 6, 2026

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The future of e-commerce discovery is being reshaped by AI agents that don’t just respond to queries—they anticipate needs, influence decisions, and operate at the household level. In this episode of *Voices of Search*, Katie Morrow, Director of Managed Services at ProductsUp, reveals that the era of 'send everything' is over. With 2.2 trillion product interactions monthly, she warns that flooding AI agents with every SKU—like fuzzy socks or toothpicks—drowns out what truly matters: high-revenue, high-margin, and contextually relevant products. The real shift isn’t just in technology, but in mindset: marketers must now think in terms of personas, not just audiences, and prioritize product data with surgical precision. Morrow emphasizes that AI discovery demands structured, dynamic, and hyper-relevant data—especially at the SKU level—where availability, price, delivery speed, and even brand perception become critical signals. She cautions against premature scale, advocating for small, testable experiments with top-performing or net-new products to measure real impact. The most powerful insight? AI agents aren’t just tools—they’re becoming decision-makers, and brands that fail to optimize their data for them risk being invisible in a world where consumers no longer search—they’re guided.

Key Takeaways
1

Stop sending all 300 million SKUs to AI agents—start small with top revenue-driving or net-new products to measure real impact.

2

AI agents operate at the household level, so optimize product data for multiple personas, not just individual shoppers.

3

Rich, granular data (price, availability, delivery options, brand perception) is now essential at the SKU level for AI discovery.

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Use KPIs like revenue, new customers, or traffic to segment your catalog—don’t expose everything without a clear goal.

5

AI discovery is not search—it’s influence. Brands must shape their data to be seen, trusted, and recommended by agents.

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Chapters
0:00
2 min

Introduction & Sponsor: I Hear Everything

The episode opens with a sponsor plug for I Hear Everything, a podcast production network, setting the stage for the show's focus on SEO and content marketing.

2:20
3 min

Meet Katie Morrow & ProductsUp’s Global Scale

Katie Morrow introduces herself and ProductsUp, highlighting their role in managing 2.2 trillion product interactions monthly across search, social, and agentic platforms, with deep experience in feed optimization and channel intelligence.

5:00
4 min

AI Agents & the New Era of Product Discovery

The inception of this concept of someone making conscious decisions about what we consume is here. Whether or not we felt like we had that kind of control before, we did, but we weren't necessarily always taking advantage of it knowing we still had to make our products discoverable.

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9:10
5 min

The Myth of 'Send Everything' to AI

I find it absolutely obscene. No marketer wants to be looking at any of that working towards that. And I get that it's a localized program and I get that you want to make sure that we can get to you for that one item, but at the end of the day, we're searching for children's Tylenol and that's what's going to get us to brick and mortar. And it's not the fuzzy socks.

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14:10
6 min

Prioritization: KPIs Over Catalogs

If my KPI is revenue, it will be top revenue driving SKUs. If my KPI is bring new customers to the website, I would expose only net new products.

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High-Impact Quotes
The worst thing we can do is expose bad product content to the agents because at that point you're building a bad historic presence with those that are making future buying decisions on our behalf.
Katie Morrow37:07
Viral: 85.0
If my KPI is revenue, it will be top revenue driving SKUs. If my KPI is bring new customers to the website, I would expose only net new products.
Katie Morrow38:38
Viral: 78.0
I find it absolutely obscene. No marketer wants to be looking at any of that working towards that. And I get that it's a localized program and I get that you want to make sure that we can get to you for that one item, but at the end of the day, we're searching for children's Tylenol and that's what's going to get us to brick and mortar. And it's not the fuzzy socks.
Katie Morrow14:07
Viral: 76.0
Speakers

Host

Jordan Cooney

Guest

Katie Morrow
Topics Discussed
ai agents in commerce95%product feed optimization90%agentic commerce88%rich product data87%product data structure85%ai discovery readiness83%kpi-based catalog segmentation82%household level targeting80%
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ProductsUp

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Katie Morrow

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Google Merchant Center

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Previsible

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I Hear Everything

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Channel Intelligence

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LLM.txt

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March Madness

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Nito

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