--- title: "You Ask, I Answer: Finding Content Gaps For AI Search?" author: "" date: 2026-04-07 url: https://www.christopherspenn.com/2026/04/you-ask-i-answer-finding-content-gaps-for-ai-search/ categories: - "AI" - "Content Marketing" - "Research" - "SEO" - "Video" - "Videos" tags: - "youtube" --- # You Ask, I Answer: Finding Content Gaps For AI Search? ## Summary In today's episode, I explain how you can identify content gaps and unanswered questions to improve your visibility in AI search. Here's what this means for you. You can create content that addresses the actual needs of your audience instead of guessing what they want. You'll also learn these concepts: how to use Reddit for market intelligence, the benefits of combining synthetic and human focus groups, and techniques for repurposing expert interviews into different media formats. [embed]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EhGN8pY_-rc[/embed] ## Key Takeaways - You'll learn how to use Reddit discussions to find real questions your audience asks - You'll discover how to spot AI bot patterns to focus your energy on real human conversations - You'll explore how to repurpose expert interviews into various content formats like videos and blog posts - You'll see how analyzing customer service inquiries provides a direct roadmap for new content ## Full Transcript In today's episode, Playa asks, How do I find content gaps and unanswered questions to dominate AI search? Playa is clearly uh interested in dominating some things. That's it, uh that's a word choice. Um I don't know about dominating search, but to be relevant in search, the number one place that thing that you can do is to pay attention to people's conversations where they're having them. So if you are not spending some time on Reddit, as an example, uh, as a place not to talk, not to participate, not to yell into the void, uh, but to listen, to pay attention, to observe, you're missing a key thing. Not because Reddit data is used in search results. That's not why I'm saying this. I'm saying this because that's where actual people have conversations a lot of the time. And yes, there are bots plaguing it, like there's bots plaguing every form of public social media, but there's still useful conversations being had, particularly in well-moderated subreddits in your industry that can tell you a lot about what's going on. One of the things that uh Trust Insights does for several of our clients is we using the Reddit Developer API, which we have uh a key for, which we have an account for and stuff like that. So we're not scraping Reddit, we're obeying their terms of service. We will download the contents of specific subreddits that our clients care about, and we'll produce analysis using AI, right, to process all the language that tells us what's going on in a specific sector or space. That is that is valuable intelligence because combined with human expertise, with subject matter expertise in uh a domain or a space, you can very quickly get to know what the unanswered questions are. Now you can literally see, for example, if someone asks a question in a specific subreddit and no one answers, or the answers are not helpful, that is your opportunity, if you assuming you know the answer to participate. And if you do that, you not only uh will have great content for search and AI overviews, you will also help that actual human being that had that actual question. Now, again, you have to use some judgment. It should be relatively obvious which users in a subreddit are automated because they all have very specific patterns. And as more and more people use AI models to um automate their social media posting, spotting those patterns becomes easier because you start seeing them in mass. Uh, for example, on LinkedIn, it is so obvious who's using AI bots because they have the uh this template. I don't know whether it's a specific piece of software or if it's just poor prompting, but when people are using uh bots on LinkedIn, it sounds so incredibly predictable that's easy to spot. But real conversations with actual human beings that are who could be your customers is one of the best ways to learn about unmet content needs for SEO, but also just to help your business in general to say, hey, you know, we talked with our customers. I would suggest focus groups, real focus groups, real humans, as well as synthetic focus groups. I think both are valuable. I would do the synthetic focus group first to get the obvious questions out of the way and then reserve your budget and your time and your efforts for a real focus group for the questions that machines can't answer or don't have the uh probabilistic capabilities to answer, and all of that becomes content that you create. I would also consider taking your subject matter experts and getting as much information out of them as quickly as possible in as many formats as possible because that will allow you to create content that then you can use to dominate search. This video is a literal example of what that is. So I'm standing here in my kitchen on a Sunday morning making Korean food while I'm talking to you. I've got a microphone on tucked into my phone that's literally just magnetically strapped to my refrigerator. And as I have this conversation with you, I record it. I record it. And then this becomes YouTube videos. Those YouTube videos become blog posts, those blog posts become infographics, and so on and so forth. Um, and there's some other stuff that we've got coming soon that is even more, I think, uh useful for repurposing stuff. But that's that all stems from you talking to the people that you have access to and looking at looking and listening to them what they have to say about things that they're not getting good answers for. So that would be my suggestion. Talk to real people, talk to your subject matter experts, talk to your customer care people. What are the questions that people keep asking over and over again? Right? Look in your customer service inbox. What is this the top five questions you keep getting all the time? Forget dominating search. Dominate your own inbox and say, huh? Everyone keeps asking about these five questions. Maybe we should have content on our website that says the answer to these five questions so that people stop asking them to us. 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