So you want your content to get picked up by AI searches. Now what? Here’s a step-by-step guide to help you update your existing assets — be it your website, YouTube, and other channels — as well as explore third-party collaborations to help you get picked up by AI.

 

First, What Are the Core Differences Between SEO and AIO?

SEO

Keyword saturated content, organized as a hierarchy of related phrases.

  • All About Competition / Out-Ranking
  • Keywords are focus
  • Written for bots
  • Use search index and page rank algorithms
  • Serves up a list of websites for user to find answers/continue researching
  • Quantity more important than quality content

AIO

Clear, concise, contextual content that promotes an answer, best organized as topic hubs with details in sub pages.

  • All About Collaboration and Context
  • Providing the best answer is focus
  • Written for people
  • Crawls the web for answers (not just search engines)s
  • Delivers the best answer
  • All about simplicity and quality content

Top Places LLMs Like ChatGPT and Perplexity Pull Content

There is so much here! Digesting this data will be a separate blog post altogether with recommendations. In short, share your insights, answer questions, collaborate, deliver a great product, and get reviews to get your content in these primary sources.

Reddit – 40.1%
Wikipedia – 26.3%
YouTube – 23.5%
Google – 23.3%
Yelp – 21%
Facebook – 20%
Amazon – 18.7%
Tripadvisor – 12.5%

MapBox – 11.3%
Open Street Map – 11.3%
Instagram – 10.9%
Mapquest – 9.8%
Walmart – 9.3%
eBay – 7.7%
LinkedIn – 5.9%

Phase 1: Web-Related Strategies – Content

#1 – Pick three of the top sources that make the most sense for your business. Start engaging, getting customer reviews, and/or optimizing your content/listings to boost your credibility. You may need to pay to play.

#2 – Make sure your website content has clarity: descriptive headers, bullets, short paragraphs.

#3 – Include summaries, stat blocks, quotes, FAQs.

#4 – Get listed in any relevant directories/lists. Again, you may need to pay to play.

#5 – Ask customers/partners to write reviews on App Exchange, Google, Yelp, and other directories.
#6 – Start engaging and collaborating everywhere you can.

Phase 2: Web-Related Strategies – Optimization

#7 – Add SEO – Title, description, keywords on all key pages.
#8 – Feed content to AI providers.
#9 – Crosslink related website content and link to other sites as applicable.
#10 – Create concept overviews – lists, reviews, tools, checklists instead of individual topics. (Perfect for blog topics!)

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