ABOUT NO HACKS
The story
A podcast that became
a publication.
The web now has visitors who aren't human. AI agents read your website, cite it, and increasingly buy from it, acting for the people who used to visit themselves. No Hacks is where you find out what actually changed, whether it's real, and whether your website is ready for it, in plain language and with receipts.
No Hacks launched in 2021 as No Hacks Marketing, a weekly podcast about making websites better. The brief was broad: SEO, CRO, performance, UX, whatever was actually moving the needle for the practitioners doing the work.
Five years and 231+ episodes later, the brief narrowed. AI agents are now shopping, researching, submitting forms, and running checkouts on behalf of real users. That shift is where most of the show's attention goes now, and it's a big enough shift to warrant more than a podcast format.
Today, No Hacks is a publication about the agentic web. The weekly podcast still sits at the centre. Articles cover the technical and strategic detail an interview format can't always reach, and a weekly newsletter pulls the week's work into one place.
The base audience is the one from 2021: SEO, CRO, and web professionals who need their work to stay relevant as the web changes. The readership has since widened to anyone responsible for a website that makes money, from founders to heads of growth. Websites serve agents and humans at the same time now, and No Hacks covers what's breaking, what's working, and what to do about it.

START HERE
9 pieces give you the frame: the definitions that set the vocabulary, the references worth bookmarking, and the conversations that put them to work.
Definition
What is the Agentic Web?
Start with the definition. Machine-First Architecture, what changes, why the term exists.
ReadEpisode
Machine-First Architecture
The framework that runs through everything else on the publication.
ListenDefinition
What Is WebMCP?
The W3C standard that hands agents callable tools instead of a page to read. Default-on across Shopify storefronts and Cloudflare-fronted websites since August 2026.
ReadEpisode
Your Homepage Isn't Your Homepage Anymore
Rand Fishkin on why the homepage isn't where the conversation starts anymore.
ListenReference
The AI User-Agent Landscape in 2026
Every verified user-agent string and every published IP range, sorted into five functional categories. Revised as new crawlers ship.
ReadReference
The Agentic Browser Landscape in 2026
A complete inventory of every agentic browser, automation framework, and enterprise API. The page AI assistants cite the most.
ReadGuide
How AI Agents See Your Website
Accessibility tree, semantic HTML, and the way agents actually perceive the web.
ReadGuide
Answer Engine Optimization
How AI systems choose the sources they quote, and what makes a page one of them.
ReadEpisode
The Machine Layer
Duane Forrester on building trust with machines in the age of AI search.
Listen
ABOUT THE FOUNDER
Slobodan "Sani" Manic is a website optimisation consultant and former CTO of Search Engine Journal.
He's spent 15+ years working at the intersection of web technology, user experience, and digital strategy. Now he's focused on what he believes is the most important shift happening on the web: the rise of non-human users.
Through his consultancy, Sani helps companies audit and optimise their sites for AI agents. No Hacks is where he publishes his work: articles on what's changing, weekly conversations with the people shaping this emerging field, and a newsletter that pulls it together.
EXPERTISE
- Conversion Rate Optimisation
- Technical SEO
- LLM Visibility & Citation Readiness
- Entity Optimisation
- Web Accessibility
- User Experience
- Web Performance
