You Ask, I Answer: Optimizing Content for AI? Part 2 of 4

Welcome back in part two of how do I optimize my content in an AI SEO world. Um in the last part we talked about the Mise on the Plus, the things you have to have handy, like your ideal customer profile, like um your Google Search Console data, etc. Today let's look at a piece of content and how we would go about optimizing it. So I'm gonna go over into my Google Search Console. And if you recall last time we talked about impressions versus clicks, uh impressions, when you have high impressions and low clicks on a page, it means that you showed up a lot, but what showed up did the the the user didn't like.

Uh so here, this one from 2017. Why marketing must understand the true definition of synergy? That this article got 33,000 impressions and eight clicks. So clearly what showed up for this was not good. Right.

So here's what synergy means the mathematics of synergy, why it matters, measuring what matters, the real world. So this article, I feel like this got updated not too long ago. Maybe it did, maybe it didn't. Um this is the one we're gonna optimize because it's showing up a lot, which means that Google thinks it's worthwhile, but users don't. And I can kind of understand why, because it is kind of long.

There's there's not really many visuals, and uh it could use some work. So let's go ahead and edit this page. Now, the first thing we're gonna want to do is we're going to want to let me bring up uh an AI tool. I'll use Google's AI Studio. You can use whatever you want, chat GPT, regular Gemini.

I use AI Studio personally, mostly because it gives me more control and I know that the model is behaving exactly the way that I want. Um, you do not have to use this again. You can use whatever you like. Um, let's take a look at uh where did my ideal customer profile go? Oh, I know where it is.

Okay, so we're gonna start off with in and Gemini. We're gonna start off by saying, let's evaluate this page's content based on our first order ideal customer profile. Here's what I want to know. Why am I typing this? That's ridiculous.

I should be speaking this. How well does this page suit the needs of the ideal customer profile? What does it get right? What does the page get wrong about the ideal customer profile? What does the page lack that the ideal customer profile will be looking for in a page like this about the topic of synergy in marketing?

What is unnecessary on this page that the ideal customer profile would not find useful or helpful? Critique the page section by section, providing scores from one to five for each of these criteria, and how well they align to the needs, pain points, goals, and motivations of the ideal customer profile. So that's gonna be our prompt. Let's give it the ideal customer profile and then give it the page content. And I'm just gonna go into my site here, grab the content, and hit go.

Now, what we're doing here is pretty straightforward. We're doing an analysis of the page's content to say, does this page satisfy the needs of the customer? Does it help them in some way, shape, or form? Given this is a blog post about synergy, right? Which I don't even remember why I wrote this, but I did, and it shows up a lot in in Search Console questions.

It's tangentially related to it's not like it's the post I have about lighter fluid, which is completely uh worthless. All right, let's see. We got the TLDR, the truth about synergy and marketing beyond the buzzwords, suitability for ICP, what it gets wrong, it's framed entirely as an article, not as a speaking topic. There's no hint this content can be delivered as a keynote or breakout session. Okay, that's useful because my ICP for my personal website is for people who might be hiring me as a speaker.

Um it gets the introduction good, uh, what it gets wrong. It's a wall of text with bullet points. It reads like a blog post, not a preview of a dynamic presentation. That's okay. I'm gonna give it some feedback here.

This is a blog post. So this is intended as content marketing for a person to read who might be in my ideal customer profile. I don't intend to turn this particular blog post into a talk. Uh that is not the intention of this post. Instead, it is to attract uh search traffic from the ideal customer profile and hopefully educate them about that.

I'm knowledgeable about this particular topic and that they might want to uh read more from me. So the particular goal for this particular piece of content is to either get them to subscribe to my newsletter, which is how I can then reach them in other ways, or get them to read more different content or explore other parts of the site. So those are the goals of this page. So we've now given some correction to the AI, and we're gonna have it re-re basically re-reframe and rewrite its analysis based on that, because it got confused. It thought I was taking this piece of content and trying to directly pitch an event planner, which is definitely not the intention of this post.

It says, Okay, evaluating the page to the top of funnel content marketing blog post rather than speaker for higher page, changes the lens of the critique. Oh, of course it does. Um, it's highly effective, it's core content, but weaken its conversion strategy. Uh it successfully addresses the ICP needs to find sources, relevant time and actionable content. However, it's held by by execution errors and a failure to guide the ICP towards the stated goals.

So let's go back through the sections now. We have suitability for ICP, what it gets wrong, the broken image link. Of course, it's not a broken image link, it's a markdown link, dummy. Um what it lacks here, uh let's see, it lacks a lead magnet. It says I need to have a lead magnet of some kind on this page, some kind of call to action, which logically would be something like my newsletter.

Uh we then have uh things like more generic advice that it gets wrong in the synergy section, the bottom line, uh, and the post signature. The post signature is a slug, you don't recognize that. Suitability for ICP, this fail section fails to achieve the pages goals stated goals of conversion. It provides a good summary, but provides no clear path forward. Okay, I think that's good.

I think that's that is a sound critique of this post to say, like, yeah, I did all the work of creating a nice post, but it it falls short in actually moving my business forward in any meaningful way. So let's go ahead now and do some tuning on this. And specifically what I want to do, I want to also audit it versus my writing style because I feel like this post reads as though I have long ago I might have put it through an early version of Chat GPT. So let's evaluate it. Evaluate this post based on the writing style of Christopher Penn to see how well it aligns.

Score the post on the major headings of the writing style on a scale of one to five for each major heading, such as sentence level features, core stylistic elements, etc., to see how well or poorly the page reads in the style of Christopher Patton. And now I will put in my consolidated writing style, which is a gigantic prompt. It's a strong match. There's minor deviations, sentence score, rhythm and pace is a little bit off. Genre conventions, light on intertextuality.

Okay, so it's not terrible. It still doesn't feel exactly like me. Like I think at one point I did revise this, but that's okay. Um we now have a good assessment of everything except for one key thing, which is the topic blind spot. And so we're gonna prompt it with this.

Based on your knowledge of synergy and marketing and the original post content, what, if any, gaps exist in terms of how synergy could be applied to marketing, what its meaning is within a marketing context, how it apply strategically, and how we can think about it beyond the buzzword, the very, very overused buzzword, that this post does not cover. So we're now asking it to do some gap analysis for us just on the topic of synergy. Okay, it the post focuses predominantly on channel synergy, it misses strategic and organizational synergy, creative message synergy, data synergy, etc. etc. Dark strategy, negative synergy, dis dissonance.

Okay, so this is good. This is basically saying here's what the post misses. So now what we've got in part one, we did the mise on plus of getting together an ideal customer profile, um, uh a writing style, etc. In part two, we did diagnostics of the content to say how how does this thing stack up against the needs of the ideal customer profile, against my writing style, against the topic of synergy. Now in part three, we're gonna start making fixes.

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