Google's John Mueller offers opinion on the trend of mirroring HTML pages with markdown versions for AI SEO. Google’s John Mueller responded to a post on Bluesky that lamented all the effort being wasted on AI agent accessibility instead of focusing on the more productive activity of making sites accessible for humans. Tactical SEO One of the consistent aspects of the history of SEO is that practitioners tend to follow tactical trends if it’s apparent that everyone else is doing it. I guess it’s human nature. Back in the early days there was a guy who built a directory and purchased enough high PageRank links to the home page to get it to about a PageRank of 7 (on a scale of 1-10). SEOs were practically pushing each other out of the way to hand this guy their money. He sold thousands of links from his directory, and nobody thought to check if any of the links actually made a ranking difference. It was easy to check, but nobody did.…