We're sunsetting PodQuest on 2025-07-28. Thank you for your support!
Export Podcast Subscriptions
cover of episode EP 505:  How Brands Win in AI Search

EP 505: How Brands Win in AI Search

2025/4/16
logo of podcast Everyday AI Podcast – An AI and ChatGPT Podcast

Everyday AI Podcast – An AI and ChatGPT Podcast

AI Deep Dive AI Chapters Transcript
People
C
Chris Andrew
J
Jordan Wilson
一位经验丰富的数字策略专家和《Everyday AI》播客的主持人,专注于帮助普通人通过 AI 提升职业生涯。
Topics
Jordan Wilson: 当前AI搜索时代,品牌面临的挑战是如何在AI搜索中获得更多曝光,因为越来越少的人直接访问公司网站。 Chris Andrew: Scrunch AI致力于帮助企业优化AI搜索,应对AI搜索带来的客户旅程变化。我们发现,许多公司在AI搜索结果中没有获得理想的曝光度,这源于客户搜索行为的转变,他们更倾向于使用GPT和Perplexity等AI工具直接获取答案,而不是浏览多个网站。 为了在AI搜索中胜出,企业需要监控AI搜索结果中品牌的表现,关注AI爬虫访问内容的频率,以及AI带来的推荐流量。AI推荐流量的转化率通常高于传统搜索流量,因为用户在访问网站之前已经在AI平台上完成了信息筛选和决策。 企业需要重新思考客户旅程,因为AI爬虫已成为网站内容的主要消费者。如果AI爬虫在网站上找不到答案,就会去其他地方寻找。因此,企业需要优化内容以方便AI爬虫获取清晰准确的数据,并确保在AI搜索结果中准确地呈现品牌信息。 传统SEO仍然重要,但需要适应AI搜索的变化。AI模型处理内容的方式与传统搜索引擎不同,它们更关注用户意图和内容的相关性。因此,企业需要创建针对AI检索优化的内容,避免关键词堆砌,而应更注重用户意图。 第三方内容在AI搜索结果中占据很大比例,企业需要积极管理其在第三方网站上的品牌形象。这包括与第三方网站合作,确保品牌信息准确无误,以及积极参与评论和互动。 小型和中型企业可以通过专注于目标受众并创建高质量内容来在AI搜索中竞争,因为AI模型会找到并呈现相关内容。企业应该继续为人类读者创作有思想的内容,因为AI爬虫会访问这些内容并提升品牌在AI搜索结果中的曝光度。 AI可以帮助企业更好地理解用户意图和品牌声誉,但企业需要谨慎地对待AI的建议。企业应该积极参与AI搜索,监控品牌在AI搜索结果中的表现,并根据需要调整策略。所有搜索都将成为AI搜索,企业必须关注AI搜索才能保持在线上的相关性。 Chris Andrew: AI改变了客户旅程,消费者更倾向于使用AI工具直接获取答案,而不是浏览多个网站。企业需要重新思考客户旅程,将AI爬虫视为网站内容的主要消费者。如果AI爬虫在网站上找不到答案,就会去其他地方寻找。因此,企业需要优化内容以方便AI爬虫获取清晰准确的数据,并确保在AI搜索结果中准确地呈现品牌信息。 传统SEO仍然重要,但需要适应AI搜索的变化。AI模型处理内容的方式与传统搜索引擎不同,它们更关注用户意图和内容的相关性。因此,企业需要创建针对AI检索优化的内容,避免关键词堆砌,而应更注重用户意图。 第三方内容在AI搜索结果中占据很大比例,企业需要积极关注并管理其在第三方网站上的品牌形象。这包括与第三方网站合作,确保品牌信息准确无误,以及积极参与评论和互动。 小型和中型企业可以通过专注于目标受众并创建高质量内容来在AI搜索中竞争,因为AI模型会找到并呈现相关内容。企业应该继续为人类读者创作有思想的内容,因为AI爬虫会访问这些内容并提升品牌在AI搜索结果中的曝光度。 AI可以帮助企业更好地理解用户意图和品牌声誉,但企业需要谨慎地对待AI的建议。企业应该积极参与AI搜索,监控品牌在AI搜索结果中的表现,并根据需要调整策略。所有搜索都将成为AI搜索,企业必须关注AI搜索才能保持在线上的相关性。

Deep Dive

Shownotes Transcript

Translations:
中文

This is the Everyday AI Show, the everyday podcast where we simplify AI and bring its power to your fingertips. Listen daily for practical advice to boost your career, business, and everyday life.

Whether you're a super small local business or an enterprise company, so many brands have thrived by getting actual humans to visit their website. And then maybe they sign up for something, they purchase something, they get

pixeled, right? And then you can hit those people with ads down the line. So what happens now in the age of AI when there's maybe fewer humans actually visiting your company's website, maybe fewer opportunities to get more of those actual human eyeballs on and instead maybe they're seeing your brand a little bit more in AI search.

It's a big shift. It's actually happening very quickly. So what do brands do and how can brands win in AI search? Well, we're going to be talking about that today and a whole lot more on Everyday AI.

What's going on, y'all? My name is Jordan Wilson, and I'm the host of Everyday AI. This is your daily live stream podcast and free daily newsletter, helping us all not just learn generative AI, but how we can actually leverage it to grow our companies and our careers. If that sounds like what you're trying to do, this is your home, the live stream of the podcast, but where are you actually going to make it happen? That's on our website at youreverydayai.com. So there you can sign up for the free daily newsletter each day. We break down the

daily podcast for the day, bringing you more key insights, maybe things we didn't even have time to get to. So make sure you go read that from today's conversation. And we also give you everything else you need to keep up with the world of AI news. Speaking of that, before we get started, let's quickly go over what is happening in the world of AI news, because there's a lot. And hey, live stream crew, got a question for you at the bottom. Let me know and we'll get to it.

uh in today's conversation so first anthropic has added speaking of ai search and robic has added web research and google workspace integration to its cloud ai assistant so claude can now search the web and also internal documents providing responses with source citations to support transparency and auditability

So they now have integration with your Gmail, Google Calendar, Google Docs. And then they also did just release the web integration a couple of weeks ago, but they'll also be rolling out a version of deep research here in the coming weeks.

So the new features are powered by, yeah, that word is still around, retrieval of metageneration and are designed to meet strict enterprise privacy and security standards, according to Anthropic. So these updates make Cloud a more competitive option against Microsoft Copilot, Google Gemini, and ChatGPT. The features are still in beta right now for select paid users. So you might not have it yet in US, Japan, and Brazil.

Obviously, this came out a couple of hours after I kind of did my hot take Tuesday on Claude and how it's so far behind. Obviously, a couple hours later, they introduced these new features. I tried them out. They're okay when they work, but it's in beta, so hopefully it gets better.

All right, speaking of new features, Google is rolling out its new VO2 AI video generator inside of Gemini Advanced. So Google has started to roll out VO2, its very impressive AI text-to-video tool for Gemini Advanced users. So users can create eight seconds, seven...

720p videos from text prompts with a focus on realistic scenes and smooth character motion. So access does require that $20 a month Google One AI premium plan, which matches the price of OpenAI's ChatGPT Plus plan, which gives you access to their AI video generator, Sora. But Google's plan also includes everything else, all the cloud storage and Gemini integration in Google apps like Gmail and Docs.

Google also introduced Wisk Animate. Very cool. Letting users turn images into short videos, which is available in Google Apps. All right. Last but not least, OpenAI. Yeah, everyone else is getting in on the updates. OpenAI as well. So according to reports, OpenAI is building an early stage social network.

with a real-time feed signaling a push to compete directly with X, formerly Twitter, and Meta's upcoming social AI products. So the prototype social network from OpenAI centers on letting people share content, especially images generated with ChatGPT, through a social feed aiming to make AI-powered sharing simpler and more engaging.

So CEO Sam Altman has been quietly seeking feedback, though it's unclear if the social network will be a new standalone app or part of ChatGPT. The project comes as OpenAI looks to gather its own user data for AI training, a key advantage held by X, which Grok can now tap into X's data and leverage.

meta as llama can tap into all of meta's social media data. So while still experimental, OpenAI's move could reshape how people use AI to create and share content with each other online. Yeah, a lot happening in the AI space and there's a lot more. So make sure you go check that out on our website. All right, enough chit chat, y'all. I'm ready to talk

AI search. How can your company win? Well, I have an expert here to help us figure that out. So please help me. Welcome to the Everyday AI Show, Chris Andrew, the CEO and co-founder of Scrunch AI. Chris, thank you so much for joining the Everyday AI Show. You're welcome. Thanks for having me, Jordan. All right. Let's talk about it. Well, first, Chris, tell us, what is Scrunch AI? What is it that you all do?

Yeah, so Scrunch AI is an enterprise platform to help companies optimize for AI search. We started the company because we saw it impacting us first as consumers. Our customer journey was changing. I was visiting fewer websites. I was shifting my search behavior to GPT and perplexity. And in return, I'm getting an answer instead of 10 websites. That's going to change the entire purchase journey for the typical customer, be it B2B or B2C. So our business helps enterprises search.

optimize for that new customer journey by helping you understand if you're showing up in AI search, how you're showing up in AI search and what you can do about it. So optimization platform to improve for this new AI customer journey. Yeah.

Yeah. And let's, you know, before we dive into the bigger topic, Chris, like, let me know, what do companies, what's the one biggest problem that they're usually facing when they come to you? Is it like, oh, our traffic is gone nowhere? Or are people just like seeing this and they're like, okay, maybe I don't know what's happening with our traffic, but I like, I want to be showing up. Like, what is it companies actually come to you with?

Yeah, it often starts from a very personal concern. Like somebody on the team, often at the C-level, has been using GPT or perplexity. It's completely infiltrated their life. And they finally do a search for their own brand category. And they realize, wait a second, when I search for, you know, things my buyers, my personas search for, my company's not showing up the way I would have thought it would.

it would show up, right? Like if I ask a question about my direct product, maybe I'm represented. But if I ask a question about the category or kind of an earlier stage customer journey question, my competitors are showing up or my content's not showing up. So it starts from a point of concern internally that, hey, these are the types of things we used to show up for in traditional organic

Google search and we're not being represented in an AI overview or in GPT or perplexity. And so that's usually the starting point from a concern perspective. All right. And let's just skip straight to the end, Chris. So aside from checking out your product, how can brands win in AI search is the question everyone's trying to figure out. Yeah, I think I would encourage brands to monitor and to understand how they're showing up today.

You can do this in your own solutions, right? Go look at your weblogs, see how frequently AI crawlers are accessing your content. You can work in your analytics platform to deeply understand, are you getting referral traffic from AI? Or our customers are seeing that referral traffic from AI converts at two to five X the rate of traditional organic traffic. Now, why? It's because

People are making their decision in a platform like GPT. They're doing all their evaluation, all their comparison. By the time they visit my website, they are ready to buy. And so what I encourage brands to do is to pay attention to the actual data that's coming back from the platforms. And even if you're doing it manually, rather than leveraging a platform like ours, go in and start understanding how these models are representing you.

What are they saying about your category, about you? What sources are they using? Go to the starting point and understand that as a consumer,

We've started to outsource browsing. Like the fact that we've browsed the internet for years, it was out of necessity. We didn't even realize it, but we browsed because we had to. Browsing is inefficient by the definition of the word. I actually want the answer to my question. I don't want 10 websites that I have to go poke around and build a spreadsheet to analyze the category myself. So I think that's the big shift that we're encouraging companies to take.

And yeah, hey, live stream audience, if you have any questions for Chris, make sure to get them in now, because I think this is something, whether you realize it or not, it is something that's extremely impactful. So, you know, Chris, you kind of talked about this shift, but I want to tap into it a little bit more because, you know, companies, you know, maybe a year and a half ago when they're like, oh, where do I start with AI? You know, it was a tricky question.

At least for me now, I like, especially for individuals, I say, hey, if you're actually on the flip side of the coin of how do brands win with AI search, on the flip side, how can you start leveraging AI immediately, regardless of where you're at? Can you talk a little bit just about this concept of, yeah, now we're outsourcing our browsing to AI and like, what does that mean?

Yeah, it means you need to rethink that customer journey, right? You mentioned it in your opener, but you know, you've got your traditional marketing channels, you drive people to your website, you expect them to move around your website before they buy the product or request a meeting or click to download a white paper, whatever your conversion funnels may look like. We're looking at new conversion funnels where the primary consumer of content on your website is AI. Like

Like, go look at your weblogs. You will see that these AI crawlers are all over your webpage trying to make sense of your brand. And if they can't find the answer on your website,

They're going to go find the answer elsewhere. Right. And so this idea that they are looking at everything externally on the Internet about your brand is kind of the starting point for companies to pay attention to. And what that means from a shift perspective is your buyers coming much more educated to your website. That can be a scary thing because you're losing control of the brand journey, the customer journey, or you think of it as an opportunity.

there's an opportunity right now to make sure that you're being represented the way you would like to in the ai search world and a lot of companies are bringing more content online right they're making sure they have clear concise information about their brand their products their services they're adding new pages to their website they're adding glossaries faqs knowledge bases

Think about it. Large language models want language. They've been gathering all of the language in the world. And so when they come to your site to learn about your brand, they're looking for unstructured data. They're looking for text that they can then bring back into the model to synthesize with other sources to ideally represent you to your buyer. And so I would rethink that customer journey. This is not about just a change in search. This is about an entire change to the buyer journey.

And that's interesting, right? I've had this kind of, I don't know if it's a hot take for a while, but, you know, I think the traditional, you know, marketing funnel, so to speak, is kind of flat, right? And you kind of talked about it there because, you know, as more and more users are using these tools, right? As an example, deep research.

Great tools from Google, ChatGPT, and others. But is that kind of the top of the funnel content that a lot of brands would generally spend a lot of time on? Is that still even worth it? Because now customers are coming in super,

so much more well-researched and maybe more ready to buy. So yeah, how should companies be thinking about that, you know, quote unquote, traditional, you know, content strategy, the traditional funnel strategy that's been working great for decades. Yeah, I think that top of the funnel content is still absolutely critical because maybe you're not educating a human on the very first step, but there is an AI model

that is trying to educate a human. And so that AI model still needs access to that top of the funnel content. It needs access to the type of content that is about education, about your category more broadly. And so...

You absolutely should be creating that type of content. But think of the primary consumer of that content as an AI crawler. We don't need to be optimizing your blog posts for 50 keywords and having all of the backlinks. You need to be optimizing your blog post about the education stage for an AI crawler trying to get concise, accurate data to represent you as an expert

back to the ultimate buyer. So it's definitely changing because I think the primary consumer becomes an AI crawler making sense of that information. Down the road, it may become an AI agent or bot. I like to use a very kind of cheeky, playful example in this world, which is like if you've Googled for a recipe in the last 10 years, you end up on a recipe site where you can't find the recipe ingredients. Right. You've got somebody's life story. You've got three videos, two ads, a

pop up and email capture, you literally can't find the ingredients unless you scroll for five minutes. You ask that same question in chat GPT and you just, you exhale, you breathe a sigh of relief, you get the ingredients. Like this is why everyone is moving to AI search. It is a better consumer experience. Now, the model had to source that information from somewhere. So if you as a company start to think and cater to

to the AI crawlers as the key top of the funnel buyer, you're already winning against your competition. Shift your mindset internally to get ahead of this. And yeah, love the comments and questions coming in from the audience so far. So keep them coming and we'll get to some of these questions. But

Chris, one thing I heard you say there or allude to is this concept of crawlers, right? Because I think a lot of companies before there was this huge surge in AI search, right? Before the deep researches, before even Google had actually good integration with Gemini and search before chat GPT search.

So many business leaders were blocking, you know, quote unquote AI bots. But what they didn't know is in some instances like Google, you block Google's AI bot that blocks you from Google as well. Not good. Right. So what's the advice to companies that maybe made that decision a year or so ago or companies that are still up in the air? Like, hey, should we do that?

Are you still running in circles trying to figure out how to actually grow your business with AI? Maybe your company has been tinkering with large language models for a year or more, but can't really get traction to find ROI on Gen AI. Hey, this is Jordan Wilson, host of this very podcast.

Companies like Adobe, Microsoft, and NVIDIA have partnered with us because they trust our expertise in educating the masses around generative AI to get ahead. And some of the most innovative companies in the country hire us to help with their AI strategy and to train hundreds of their employees on how to use Gen AI. So whether you're looking for chat GPT training for thousands,

or just need help building your front-end AI strategy, you can partner with us too, just like some of the biggest companies in the world do. Go to youreverydayai.com slash partner to get in contact with our team, or you can just click on the partner section of our website. We'll help you stop running in those AI circles and help get your team ahead and build a straight path to ROI on Gen AI.

It's a great question. I was on with a Fortune 500 firm just this week. And the very first thing we start with is a comprehensive site audit. Like what happens when an AI crawler tries to retrieve your content? And step one was, oh, you're blocking them. You're one of the few companies that is still blocking the AI crawlers. Now, this was done out of fear for their data. But this is a company that

sells product and service. If you're a media company, it's a little more complex. But if you're a media company with a need to build your audience, you're gonna want these models to identify your content. I was even on with a media company that was like, why is our podcast not showing up in AI search results? Why are our conferences not showing up in AI search results? Well, you've blocked them from your entire website. And I understand you have a paid content strategy where you're protecting your content,

but at least unblock the other pages about your free podcast and your conference events. And so, you know, I understand the fear in the marketplace, but this has already gone mainstream, right? GPT was adding a million users an hour a couple weeks ago during the image creation phase. We're coming up on well over, you know, one and a half billion unique monthly users of AI search across the leading platforms.

Google is moving to AI search, right? If you do a Google search, you get an AI search result. So my message is you need to think that if you're in the business of getting your product and service in front of your buyer, your new broker to the buyer is the AI crawler. So if you're blocking your content, they're probably going to misrepresent you because they have to piece together truth about your business from third-party websites. So think and cater to AI crawlers, not as a foe, but as a partner in getting your message to your end buyer.

Yeah, exactly. The Google example is huge, Chris, because they've dominated 90 to 97% of the search market for decades. I was obviously at the Google Cloud Next conference and got to speak with a lot of Google execs. So if you think that this is some experiment, right, if you've seen the new AI mode, right? Yeah, we've all seen the AI search overviews, but now there's...

AI mode and Google's deep research tools now with the 2.5, it's freaking fantastic. So if you think this is some phase or some beta program from Google, it's not. This is the new way that the internet works. So a question, a good one here from the audience, Chris, I was hoping you could tackle. Is this

You know, it's a simple one, but I think a lot of people are having this question that Madonna had said here saying, will SEO become irrelevant or at least maybe traditional SEO, right? Where people are doing the more technical side, right? They're, you know, doing their age tags and their alt image, right? Will that traditional SEO become irrelevant? Yeah.

No, I don't think SEO is irrelevant, right? Nor do I think it will become completely irrelevant. I think SEO is the foundation for how AI models determine what websites to look at, right? They need some way to understand what websites to evaluate when answering a question. That's how it's working today, right? And so, you know, I think some of the darker tactics in SEO may go away, but I think

What you need to think about in the shift is like once AI has identified your page, it's looking at your content in a completely different way. Right. Oftentimes our conversations start with I do a Google search, a Gemini search and a GPT search and I get three completely different answers. Why? The models work differently than the traditional Google bot. Right.

They're looking for the most relevant content to the intent of the buyer and the structure of a prompt looks really different than a Google search. So Google search is often deeply keyword based. It's one word questions. It's two word questions. Prompts are human questions. And so I think SEO is the foundation. It is evolving.

but the customer journey has permanently changed. And so in no way would I say get rid of your current SEO strategy. It's critical for ranking, it's critical for showing up to be considered, but it's changing rapidly and underneath the hood,

OpenAI has introduced its own search index for the first few, you know, the first kind of six months plus in the AI search space. You know, Bing was the index that GPT was returning to. You'd ask a question in GPT, it would use the Bing search index. They've now got their own rival search index, which is indexing and making sense of websites in a different way. So we need to keep very much paying very much attention to the shift in the space. But SEO is still the foundation.

Yeah, that's a good point. And, you know, I think it's one of those things. It is moving very quickly, right? Like I just gave the, you know, I gave the example of, you know, this morning or, you know, yesterday I did a show on Claude. And by the time like we got it up on our website, they had already introduced like a bunch of new features as it comes to accessing the Internet with their tools. So, yeah, I think it's hard to keep up.

uh, but important to as well. So, you know, maybe one thing, uh, you know, Chris, that we've kind of talked about, you know, this, this concept of AI crawlers and, and having clear and concise language, uh, right. Um, I think for a lot of people when they've thought of, uh,

you know, writing content for the web because for decades, right, I've technically been doing SEO for, you know, like 20 plus years. For decades, you mentioned the recipe thing, right? You've gotten rewarded for, you know, keyword stuffing and throwing in, you know, dozens of, you know, semantic related keywords, like regardless of if it actually solved the user query.

So how can big brands, especially if they're maybe hurting for website traffic, how can they go about making that shift, right? When they've stuck to a game plan for a long time and maybe it's always worked and maybe it's not working anymore. Yeah. You know, I,

I love that you mentioned kind of the old tactics that worked because that's what the incentives led search engine optimization folks to do, right? That's what the incentives were aligned for. What I'm so excited about with the AI search space, it's fundamentally better for humans.

It's cutting through all of the noise to get me the answer, to find me the website that has the knowledge for the depth of my question. And again, this is why persona mapping is so critical. It's like you need to understand the intent of the buyer.

Someone asking from one worldview, from one vantage point, one location is completely different than another. So I think when you think about how you optimize for this, it's really gonna be a question of creating content that is optimized for AI retrieval. You need to think away from keyword stuffing and more towards intent. And that's what we see kind of the largest businesses doing. Now, the foundation for how is it working begins with comprehensive monitoring.

If you don't know the type of content that is showing up in AI search results, you don't know what to be modeling it after. If you don't know what websites are being frequently cited by AI sources for your category, for your buyer, you may be missing on a very simple way of increasing your presence by collaborating with those third-party content sources. Because one of the biggest shifts that I think brands are accepting is for a non-branded search, it's 80%.

80% plus of the websites that are cited by models are third-party content websites. So if they're not asking about your brand, the models are trying to deeply rely on unbiased content. They'll look at your website and competitive content, but the world of third-party content becomes even more critical because AI is leaning on it to get a rounded view of the category and answering the question. And so...

As an organization, I'd want to understand what content is working, what websites are relevant, and what are the gaps and strategies that I can deploy to make sure that my organization is showing up the way I want it to.

Chris, can you talk a little bit more for our audience that isn't familiar? What are those third-party websites, right? And how can people, you know, control what's being said there? How can they improve their, you know, perceived reputation on those sites? Yeah. So, you know, there's no mystery here. I mean, when I say third-party sites, I mean everything that is not you on the internet, right? So let's say you're a beauty brand, right? You've got your website describing your products and services. Well, there's probably...

dozens of review platforms out there that talk about your products and services. There's probably hundreds of bloggers and influencers that talk about your products and services and your category. There's probably, you know, dozens of industry sites talking about the products that are going, you know, the ingredients going into your products. All of those websites are being used by AI to represent you in the category. And so whether this is a paywall

paid strategy in some cases where you're going to go work with them and pay for placement on their website or it's an organic strategy where you're saying hey I'm listed on your site but the product description is wrong the pricing is wrong can you update it more affiliate you've got opportunities to make sure that your brand is accurately and positively represented and

on the influential third party sites that are influencing AI answers. But again, the starting point is you need to know what websites are being used by these AI models in the AI answers. And they're different across GPT, Perplexity, Clawed, as you said, just introduced web search. The space is moving very, very quickly. Google AI Overviews has its own powered system to identify what sites are relevant. Tracking that at scale

is the opportunity and the need that most companies are starting with.

So, you know, on that, we actually have two related questions on that exact topic from our audience, both from Jackie and Cecilia. So I'll kind of sum these up in one. But, you know, Jackie and Cecilia are both essentially asking, right, are big brands kind of at an advantage here, right? Because they have way more customers, right? So how do smaller and medium-sized businesses, how can they still compete

Right. When maybe not as many people know about them and maybe traditional see traditional SEO might have been a little kinder to those smaller brands who really invested in SEO at a high level and and put out great human content for many years. So how can, you know, smaller brands kind of reconcile or still compete because of this, you know, kind of third party website priority?

Yeah, it's a great question. I think, I mean, brand is critical in this phase because brand is the models are going to have a deeper understanding of bigger brands. There's more information out there. There's more opportunity to influence the way AI thinks at scale because they have coverage, right? You're going to be present in a lot of places. Now, what's really interesting about this shift is that

the long tail of content is becoming more relevant because the models are trying to match intent

to the right source. And so we've seen a lot of instances where content from the first couple pages of Google or Bing or Brave or whatever browser you're using doesn't even show up in an AI search result. It's the long tail of content where you might find a niche article from some blog or local business because they understand the intent of their persona and buyer. So again, we really start with comprehensive persona mapping because everyone's getting different answers in AI search.

Now, as memory gets incorporated even more deeply, OpenAI announced just last week, I believe, that they're incorporating memory capabilities for all paid users now into AI search results. And so it's looking at your location,

your information you've shared with it to get the right result to you. So I actually think small and medium sized businesses have a huge opportunity to continue to produce targeted content for your relevant buyer and understand that AI is going to do the work and find it. And so I think that's a huge level of encouragement to say you're not massively disadvantaged in this shift. Continue to produce thoughtful content for a human. One of the beautiful things is you don't need to write for humans and robots.

These robots read like humans. Like I like to joke, large language models are like babies. Like what you tell it, it regurgitates, right? It spits the information back to you. So the more information you give it about your brand, the more it's going to do your best, do its best to represent you. So continue to produce that content for a human reader and know that the crawlers are going to access it and give you an opportunity to be present.

It's a great, well thought out response and a good point too on the OpenAI update that now they've had the memory for eight or nine months, but yeah, they just rolled out the ability for ChatGPT to use your entire chat history, not just those saved nuggets of memory. So a great call out there, Chris, in terms of personalization, localization. Yeah, large language models aren't deterministic

which is important. So one other question that I had, and you've mentioned a lot, things like AI search, companies and brands in order to win, you need to focus more on things like brand reputation, the consumer journey, understanding user intent, which sounds hard, right? Like,

I know a lot of people in my head personally, when they hear that, they're probably like, all right, let's get the whole team together and let's start, you know, doing focus groups and meetings and meetings. But like, isn't AI, Chris, really good for that?

It is. You know, I think AI does a really good job of understanding at scale. I mean, it is it's the ultimate analyst, right? It's the ultimate. It has the ultimate ability to do that research for you. I mean, one of the things that's been surprising in starting the company has been that the B2B decision making process has moved into these channels.

arguably faster than the consumer making process because sophisticated users living in AI as a tool, starting to ask all their questions in it. And so as you're doing the like pull the whole company together to evaluate,

Well, the more context AI has about your business problem, your company, and the more you enrich the prompt with that context, the more of a thoughtful response you're going to get back. These things are great thought partners. Now, they do still hallucinate sometimes. They will sometimes make up answers if they don't have data to base it on. So you need to bring a judicious lens to the ultimate advice that it's providing you. You know your customer well. You know your market well. But as you said, it's a good thought partner in context.

and kind of distilling what you need to do as part of this shift.

All right. So, Chris, we've covered a ton in today's conversation that I think is really going to help a lot of business leaders who are grappling with this new challenge of winning in the era of AI search. But as we wrap up today's conversation, what is your one most important piece of advice? Like what should a business leader go do today in order to start this winning on this uphill battle?

Yeah, I would say stop ignoring it and go participate. And I think that's what's happening with your peers, right? My simple advice is,

and I don't think this is as controversial a take now 18 months in, all of search is going to be AI search. Google is cannibalizing itself with AI overviews powered by their own large language models. They invented the space. They're not going to give up the space, but they are going to allow AI search results to infiltrate the search experience.

We see organizations who are seeing their AI referral traffic nearly double month over month. And this has been sustained now for going on six months. This has the attention of the executive team. The largest companies in the world are shifting their marketing strategies to think about AI as an ICP, as a primary consumer of content. And so get a team together,

start paying attention, start with some basic monitoring when you're ready for optimization and infrastructure to manage these crawlers and agents. Obviously, platforms like ours exist to do that, but it exists in a place that needs to start with a foundation of understanding if you're showing up, how are you showing up and why? So come to the starting line. Your consumers are already there. That's why I started the company. I realized that I as a consumer had already changed my behavior. I'm not waiting for companies to adapt.

Great, great advice. And I think, you know, whether you're someone that's in, you know, SEO content marketing or not, it doesn't matter because what Chris just laid out there is the truth. All search is going to become AI search. So if you want your company to remain relevant in the future online, you have to pay attention to it. So Chris, this was a great conversation. Thank you so much for taking time out of your day to join the Everyday AI Show. We really appreciate it. Thanks, Jordan.

Great to see you. All right. As a reminder, y'all, we covered a lot there, some fantastic insights, and there will be a whole lot more in our newsletter. So if you haven't already, please make sure to go to youreverydayai.com, sign up for the free daily newsletter. If this was helpful, tell someone about it. Chris just gave a ton of great advice, putting a ton of value out there in the world for free. So thank you for tuning in. Hope to see you back tomorrow and every day for more Everyday AI. Thanks, y'all.

And that's a wrap for today's edition of Everyday AI. Thanks for joining us. If you enjoyed this episode, please subscribe and leave us a rating. It helps keep us going. For a little more AI magic, visit youreverydayai.com and sign up to our daily newsletter so you don't get left behind. Go break some barriers and we'll see you next time.