How Has AI Impacted SEO?
To understand the impact of AI on SEO efforts and how professionals have adapted to it, we gathered insights from nine industry experts, including CEOs, marketing managers, and SEO specialists. From optimizing content to employing advanced tactics, these experts share their experiences and strategies for embracing AI in their SEO efforts.
- Optimizing Content With AI
- AI as a Research Tool
- Human-Written Content Reigns Supreme
- Streamlining SEO Tasks
- Versatile AI Tools for SEO Success
- Adapting to AI-Driven SEO Algorithms
- Embracing AI Benefits, Maintaining White Hat
- Using ChatGPT for SEO Tasks
- Employing Advanced Tactics
Optimizing Content With AI
With the rise of AI-powered search engines, we have witnessed a transformation in how we approach search engine optimization. Our primary change involves optimizing content for natural language processing algorithms, ensuring that our content comprehensively addresses user queries and incorporates relevant keywords naturally.
AI has influenced our keyword research strategies. We now rely on AI-powered tools to identify valuable keywords and gain insights into user behavior and search patterns. By understanding user intent behind specific keywords, we can optimize our content more effectively.
We have embraced AI in enhancing user experience by integrating chatbots and virtual assistants, providing personalized help, and guiding users through their buyer journey. AI has enabled us to automate various SEO tasks, improving efficiency and allowing us to focus on strategic initiatives.
Kevin Hall
Marketing Operations, Webserv
AI as a Research Tool
AI has brought a sea change to how we have been approaching marketing. SEO, being a tech and content-heavy discipline, seems to have been affected more than other marketing channels because of the AI wave.
Since Google announced AI content is good with it as long as it helps the searchers, we have incorporated AI as a research tool in our content pipeline. This means that we save time during the research.
Also, we are cognizant of the failures of AI, like inaccuracies and juxtaposition of too many POVs, making it a little incoherent. So we are not using it as a content writing engine. But we use it to do what it can do great—writing definitions, performing calculations, automating research, and analysis.
We are also looking to embrace the AI impact on the Google Search page. We have focused on building a more reliable authority and started scouting for alternative channels in case it goes south.
Aquibur Rahman
CEO, Mailmodo
Adapting to AI-Driven Algorithms
Algorithmic updates monitoring is crucial in adapting to AI’s impact on SEO. As AI-driven search algorithms develop, SEO professionals must stay informed about updates and adjust their strategies to align with new ranking factors.
This requires keeping up with industry news, search engine guidelines, and algorithm changes. SEO specialists need to analyze the impact of AI updates on their website’s performance and make necessary adjustments in keyword targeting, content optimization, and user experience.
Embracing AI involves understanding its implications and leveraging AI-powered tools for keyword research, content generation, and performance tracking. By embracing AI, SEO efforts can stay relevant, ensure compliance with search engine algorithms, and deliver improved organic search visibility and user experience.
Ben Lau
Founder, Featured SEO Company
Human-Written Content Reigns Supreme
At the moment, AI is making mine and the content team’s jobs easier. We take time to create unique and interesting content for our product pages and blog articles. We dipped our toe into AI but found the articles and/or copy it created was very clunky, formal, and over-egged.
We can use it sometimes for top-line ideas, but that is the top and tail of it.
The impact has come from a few of our close competitors’ over-reliance on it. We have noticed their blog articles, in particular, look very automated with little tweaking, and the bad thing—for them—is that other competitors seem to use the same prompts in Chat GPT-3/4 and as a result have super similar articles.
This means they are fighting over the same keywords and traffic intent, halving their impact. Our articles, with similar topics but completely original structure and approach, rank above theirs.
While AI is catching up to real writing, our competitors—once they realize their mistake—will have to catch us up.
Sean Coffey
Marketing Manager, Regency Fire
Streamlining SEO Tasks
As part of the SEO community, I embrace AI in full force. Staying relevant in an ever-changing world requires it.
Adjusting to AI was pretty easy because it helps unload some of the repetitive tasks SEOs typically do, such as content outlines, idea generation, seed keywords, writing titles, and descriptions.
I’d say that so far, AI has positively affected my SEO efforts. It saves me time I can use in other departments like link building, business scaling, and strategizing.
Nicholas Altimore
CEO and Co-founder, SirLinksalot
Versatile AI Tools for SEO Success
AI has influenced my SEO efforts by providing me with powerful tools and help in various aspects of my work. One of the most valuable resources I use is Chat GPT, which helps me with a range of tasks:
- I can tailor articles to specific customer segments, allowing me to generate article ideas and craft engaging introductions that are specifically targeted towards certain customer groups.
- I’m able to analyze the coverage and structure of my articles. By seeking evaluations on the depth of coverage and relevance of my content, I can ensure that my articles are comprehensive and provide value to my target audience.
This level of personalization has helped to improve the effectiveness of my content. Beyond SEO-specific tasks, I have also sought AI’s help in maintaining a healthy work-life balance. I ask for strategies for effective time management as a marketer and tips on achieving a healthy work-life balance.
Olga Natalchenko
PR Manager, Wiserbrand
Embracing AI Benefits, Maintaining White Hat
AI has been a blessing for us, and we have welcomed it with open arms! AI has been very helpful for our SEO efforts when briefing writers on new blog content.
Prior to AI, we used to spend hours writing detailed briefs for our writers to ensure we gave them all the information to complete a new blog piece. Now we input our target keywords and sentiment, and the AI produces a detailed brief in a matter of seconds. It has easily cut our briefing time down by a full day a month.
For our business, we are careful not to use AI to create blog content itself. The main reason being the fact that Google will soon have measures in place to read AI-generated content on the page. Therefore, we want to keep our white hat strategy pure and continue writing genuine articles for our readers to enjoy.
Taleisha Barker
Marketing and Communications Manager, Flowers Across Sydney
Using ChatGPT for SEO Tasks
Artificial Intelligence, specifically ChatGPT, has proven to be quite helpful, and I embraced ChatGPT in around an hour. I use ChatGPT for research as it pertains to content development, as well as for generating variations of titles and meta descriptions of articles I’m writing. This helps me save significant time overall and develop higher quality content faster than I would otherwise.
I also use ChatGPT for Search Engine Optimization (SEO) purposes when, for example, I have an issue I’m working on and need a second opinion about whether going a certain direction may deliver a positive result.
Here, I’ll ask ChatGPT for an opinion on a strategy I’m thinking of using, and if the response is reasonable, I may consider implementing the strategy. Sometimes, however, it’s necessary to double-check the information ChatGPT provides because it can be wrong as well. On the whole, however, ChatGPT has been very helpful with SEO, and I use it regularly.
Thomas Fuller
Digital Marketing Consultant, Thomas P. Fuller
Employing Advanced Tactics
For one, search engines are now using more sophisticated algorithms that consider many factors to determine rankings.
This means that it is no longer enough for websites to have high-quality content and optimized meta tags; they must also consider the user experience, technical aspects, and other factors when optimizing their sites.
As a result, SEO professionals must employ advanced tactics and strategies to stay ahead of the competition.
Darryl Stevens
CEO, Digitech Web Design
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