You Ask, I Answer: Optimizing Content for AI? Part 3 of 4

Welcome back. So this is part three where in parts one and two. Part one, we did the mise on plus of how do we do AI forward SEO. In part two, we looked at a page and did some diagnosis using AI tools to figure out where does a page fall short and looked at what pages even to look at. So we we use Google Search Console to make those ide to identify those things.

There's a page on my blog that had high impressions, low clicks, it means that it was just not terribly satisfactory. In this uh part, we're now going to take the recommendations from the previous part and start applying them. So our first thing we have to do. We got some good feedback from our generative AI tool in the last part. That this page overall, if I scroll back here in I gave it some feedback as I said, hey, here evaluate this page based on based on a rubric, and it came up with five different areas where the page was good, but uh there were some improvements need to be needed to be made.

Uh and then we had it evaluate based on my writing style. It really didn't come up with anything horribly out of place with the writing style. It did come up with a gap on the subject matter itself on on what synergy is, because uh this is why Mars marketing understands the true definition of synergy. And the post is predominantly about channel synergy, not overall. So we want to enhance that.

How do we enhance that? Well, we can use generative AI to make those changes. So let's go ahead and set up go into I'm gonna go into a deep research tool. I'm going to Google's Gemini. You can use the tool of your choice.

Um, but I want to add knowledge to this page that will help satisfy the user, my ideal customer profile, and satisfy all the AI tools that we know are gonna scrape it. So let's give it this prompt. We want to think in terms of the casino framework, the trust Insights Casino Framework. So if you're not familiar, go to trustinsights.ai/slash casino. We're going to get used to casino prompt framework broadly to come up with a deep research prompt.

We're going to do some research today on the application of synergy within the context of marketing. And the five areas that we want to focus on in this research are strategic and organizational synergy, what it means, why it's important to marketing, how it shows up. Creative and message synergy is going to be part two. And that's going to be the focusing on the uh you know cross-channel reinforcement campaign level synergy. What is it?

Why does it matter to marketing? How does it show up? Or how do we implement it? The third is data synergy, uh, which is the foundational synergy of data that powers marketing. What is it?

Why does it matter to marketing? How do we implement it? How do we bring it to life? The fourth area we want to cover is brand and partnership synergy. Uh, what is it?

You know, what is it, what is it at all? Why is it important to marketing? How does uh it show up? How do we implement it in our marketing? And the fifth piece is gonna be on negative synergy or dissonance.

Um, what can what is the opposite of synergy? What is dissonance? When is dissonance good or bad within a context of marketing? Because there might be cases where it makes sense. So, what is it?

What is uh negative synergy? Why is it important to marketing? How does it show up? How do we leverage it or not leverage it? So that's the first part of our prompt.

Focus especially on resources that were published after January 1st, 2020, because timeliness is very important, and give preference to content that was published in 2024 or 2025. All languages are acceptable. All publishings, publishers, and publications around the globe are acceptable. Um, but we prefer academic research. We prefer research papers, we prefer peer-reviewed journals.

We prefer any resource that has a valid DOI or document object indicator number. So always prioritize those first as a measure of credibility when you're drawing on sources about synergy. So this is, if you think about, we've we've talked the context, we've talked about the this over the overall action. We're now doing scoping. Uh what is it that we do or don't want, what sources are or are not allowed in here.

The intent of the research is to explore the topic of synergy in marketing and eventually to become a lengthy article that will be published about how synergy shows up in marketing. You'll take the role of an expert uh business strategist who knows and has studied synergy and can get beyond the buzzwords to what it really means when it's appropriate to talk about it, when it's not appropriate to talk about it. You will write a five-part research paper on strategic and organizational synergy, creative and message synergy, data synergy, brand partnership synergy, and negative synergy, exploring the what, the why, and the how for each of the areas specific to how marketers can bring it to life, making sure that you cite your results carefully in APA format, both within the text and at the end of the text. So we've now gone and given it the six parts of the casino framework: context, action, scope, intent, narrator, and outcome. You can see this is a fairly long prompt, right?

This is not your t your typical make me a paper about synergy. Which is what a lot of people do wrong with with deep research. Deep research thrives best when you give it lots of guidance. Maybe you give it an outline, maybe you give it very specific information so that it knows what to do and can go and draw on that information. And now we're gonna take a pause here and come back when it's done, because this is gonna take about 15 minutes for it to come up with all the information.

All right, we are done. Google Gemini has spit out its very, very long report about Synergy, foundational alignment defining it, theoretical underpinnings, creative message strategy, uh, and its underpinnings and where it came from, data synergy definitions and implementations. Uh, we have brand partnership, uh, negative synergy. So we now have this what? 21 page report of what synergy is.

So now we're ready to do we so in this part we did sort of the the hacking of the pieces uh to understand this. But now let's do the implementation. Um so we're gonna say, let's first attach that document, uh, which is from Google Drive. Put it right in the chat. And now we're gonna say based on the original article and the added research and the ideal customer profile.

Let's figure out a new outline for this article that preserves the important points and the writing style and the voice of the original, but expands on the topic. Now, here's the thing about um AI and SEO. The lazy approach would just be to say, okay, write the new version, right? That's the lazy version. It's gonna create slop.

And there's nothing in it that is uniquely you, that is uniquely human that is your point of view. All of this research and stuff is great. It did a lot of the academic research and a lot of the background, but we, you and me, have to have a point of view. We can't just regurgitate generative AI's output because at that point, what good is it? Someone can just ask generative AI for it.

We're not adding to it until we add our unique human perspective to it. So let's take a look and take a think. Take a think here. What do you see when you think about this particular topic? What kind of framework can you apply to it?

What kind of story arc is in the research and the original content and what the ideal customer profile is looking for? What do you see? I know what I see in it, and I'm gonna give it some instructions in a second, but this is where you still add value. This is where you have a role. Obviously, not just the fact-checking part and not just the copy paste part, but if you want continued gainful employment, this is the part where you have to add value to take all these raw ingredients and turn them into something meaningful.

And that's the secret to if there was a secret to AI SEO, the secret is you have to have something that is uniquely yours that the machine didn't spot, the machine didn't do that you can do. So let's go back and put in that unique perspective. Here's what I'm thinking. When we look at synergy overall and the definitions and the pieces and parts of it that we looked at from the research, etc., there appears to be a story of how synergy shows up from the very foundational things like data synergy to the big picture stuff, the purpose of synergy, which is strategic and organizational in nature, to the performance of it, the outcomes of how synergy shows up and what its positive effects are. This is something that is known as the 5P framework created by Katie Robert at Trust Insights.

And the 5P framework goes like this purpose, people, process, platform performance. The purpose is what is it that we do, what is it you're doing? What is the reason for anything? So in the context of this article, we would want to explore what is the purpose of synergy? The people are who's involved.

And this could be things like the brand partnership synergy pieces that we've been researching. Then the process is what how do you how do you make synergy? You know, what is the process for creating synergy? That's where creative and message synergy can come up. That's where strategic and organizational synergy can be developed.

Then you have the platform. How does how is synergy actualized? And that's where things like data synergy can come up. That's where tools like artificial intelligence can be partners to building it. And then, of course, performance, the fifth P how does synergy or the lack thereof show up?

And that's where things, again, like the strategic and organizational synergy can show up, or negative synergy can diminish our outcomes. So let's create an outline about synergy in marketing that follows the 5P framework and show the outline in full. So what it's doing now is it's creating an outline for our article based on the 5P framework that I've just explained through. Using the research that we provided, using the original post, using the everything that we've talked about so far. Let's now have it go and do some auditing.

Great. Look at this outline now and identify how well or poorly it fits the needs, pain points, goals, and motivations of our ideal customer profile. And the intended goal of this piece, which is to get people to subscribe to my newsletter, or get people to explore more content on my site. How would this outline fit those needs and where does it fall short where we could make improvements? And so it comes up and says, overall assessment is a massive improvement, which it it should be, given the amount of work we're putting into this.

How the outline how outlines the ICP and goals addresses the need for substantive action content, demonstrates the speakers' intellectual range, provides the tweetable moments. I hate that that exists, but that's a need. Provide perfect supports the content marketing goals, right? Which is again, I hate that we have to do this, but we do because it's what makes things work. Shortcome, potential for information overload, scan fatigue.

Reads like a paper, not a preview of performance. That's fine. It's not a shortcoming. The conversion path is passive. Build in further reading links.

Okay. So here's how part three could look with these improvements. The mythological how, uh, etc. Okay. So we we have some stuff there.

That's all good. Now let's go and generate. We are ready to begin generating the upgraded version of this article. And the outline has seven parts: the introduction, the five Ps, and the conclusion. Using the writing style of Christopher Penn and using verbatim from the original post as much as possible and matching the writing style and tone and voice of the original post as much as possible.

Write the introduction. Okay, we see the introduction. That look it looks good. This sounds like me. This this sounds really good.

Um excellent. Move on to the second part. Purpose. Follow the same guidelines for matching the writing style and the original content and serving the needs of the ICP and following the detailed outline. Okay, not bad.

Write the third part on people. Make sure that if you are using information from the deep research paper, that you're providing the appropriate citations and credit to the original papers where applicable. Give credit where it's due. Okay, good. Let's have it go on now.

Right? The fourth part. Match the writing style of Christopher Penn exactly. Right. The next part on platform.

Okay, right. The next part on performance. Right. The final part, the conclusion. And this is where make sure that the call to action in the conclusion involves reminding people to subscribe to my newsletter for more content like this.

Alright, so we now have the revision. Right? So we've got the the heart of this new article done. Next, in the next part, we're gonna take this and we're gonna start making additional pieces for it that are AI friendly. So stay tuned for that in the next part.

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