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This Week On The SEO Mad Scientist 
Can AI Replace Your SEO?
Welcome back to the SEO mad scientist.
As you may know, we have some citation tests in the works, but with AI being such a Hot Topic right now, we wanted to review some recent tests we ran with chatGPT.
Last month we mentioned in an update how we used AI content to gain additional rankings on our site. In the specific test, we used chatGPT to generate very specific content that we strategically placed on our site and prompted the AI exactly how to optimize (such as prompting it to mention specific entities and their relationships when writing or re-writing content)
However, we have seen quite a few people offering various problems to help generate and optimize content, some of which seem more advanced than others. We’ve seen prompts being suggested as simple as “write me an article about ‘XYZ’ that would likely appear at the top of Google search when searching for the term ABC.”
Now we assume that the AI doesn’t know Google’s algorithm, so asking it to do something like this doesn’t make much sense, but if we were to ask the AI if it understands certain aspects of the algorithm and important concepts such as EAT, it seems to have a clear understanding.
So we wondered if we simply ask the AI to implement these concepts when writing the article we are asking for, will it produce content as good as or better than our previously generated AI content?
Using this concept, we asked it to write content for our test site, targeting the term “SEO Services” and related terms.
We then updated our “strategic AI content” with our new “cut and paste AI content” and watched the results. So far, it has seemed to be performing much worse.
We also attempted this again, asking it to write an article about Digital Marketing vs. Traditional Marketing. We wondered if it would give us something that’s even “rank-worthy” (will it even appear in the top 100). This time we put more emphasis on it implementing EAT principles. The end result was a bunch of misquotations, and low-value content, which you can see for yourself: https://creative1media.net/digital-marketing-vs-traditional-marketing/.
But did it rank at all? Not surprisingly… No
We can’t say we’re too surprised by these results, but we did want to test some of these Concepts because many AI “Prompt Experts” appear more every day. As powerful as AI may be, its outputs’ quality still depends on the person using it.
If you’ve been considering using AI, we suggest you take a look but don’t think it will be a quick fix for your content because we found out that it simply doesn’t work that way.
Join us next week, as we should have some updates on our citation tests and more exciting tests to come.
Until then, Happy Testing.
This Week on The SEO Vault
Episode 179
Hosts: Sophie Allen + Mike Milas
+ Bucky Helms
What we discussed this week…
How to use AI content tools for SEO
Google Analytic’s new features for managing large data sets
Google updating thei “Link Best Practices for Google” documentation
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