What’s really cool… This page is AI Generated in response to the growth in “ai first seo” keyword.

Optimise for AI Overviews

Authority is key— yes, you need great content, however, it won’t rank without an amazing backlink profile . Google’s GSE prioritises trustworthy, relevant sources.

AI-First SEO process makes your site stands out by combining high-quality, intent-driven content with structured data and conversational keywords. This makes your site not only helpful to users but also highly favoured by AI-driven search algorithms.

• ✅ Ensure Content Freshness: Regularly update content and indicate the last updated date. For topics that evolve, an AI is more likely to trust and use a recently updated page than an old one.

• ✅ Interlink Related Content: Link to related articles or definitions on your site. Use keyword-rich anchor text that clearly indicates the topic of the target page. This helps AI see the connections and possibly fetch additional context.

• ✅ Improve Page Speed: Optimize your page load times. Enable compression, minify code, and use CDNs. Fast-loading pages are more likely to be fully crawled by AI agents without timeouts.

• ✅ Enable AI Crawling: Do not block reputable AI crawlers (like GPTBot) in robots.txt. In fact, consider creating a section in your robots.txt that explicitly allows them, signaling you welcome AI indexing.

• ✅ Monitor AI Citations: Use tools or manual checks to see if and how your content is being cited by AI (e.g., search your domain on Perplexity’s results, or use Bing Chat to query your content topic). This can give you insight into which content is AI-visible and which might need tweaking.

• ✅ Leverage APIs and Feeds: If possible, provide an API or data feed for your content. For example, some sites offer their FAQs or database via API. This can be integrated into AI tools or plugins directly, ensuring your content is delivered verbatim.

• ✅ Create AI Plugins or Integrations: Explore creating a ChatGPT plugin or integration for your service. For instance, a news site could have a plugin that allows ChatGPT to fetch the latest news from them. This is a proactive way to insert your content into AI answers with attribution.

• ✅ Emphasize Authoritativeness: Include author bios, credentials, and references in your content (when applicable). An AI aware of this meta-info might treat the content as more trustworthy. Moreover, future AI search (like Google’s SGE) might highlight the author or source reputation.

• ✅ Use Version Control for Content: If you make significant changes or additions, consider keeping an archive or at least noting changes. LLMs might have older versions in training; if discrepancies arise, having a clear update note might help AI (or users) reconcile them. (For example: “Note: This article was updated in 2024 to include X…”).

• ✅ Encourage External References: This is more indirect, but if other sites or publications cite and link to your content, that boosts your credibility. It might also increase the likelihood that your content was in the training data of models or appears high in search. Good research and original insights can earn citations that both improve SEO and AIO.

• ✅ Stay Informed on AI Search Updates: AI discovery is a fast-evolving field. Keep an eye on announcements from OpenAI, Google (SGE updates), Microsoft, and AI startups about how their systems retrieve and use content. Adapt your strategy as new guidelines or tools emerge (for example, if new schema types for AI are introduced, or if Perplexity opens a content submission program, etc.).

Only these few things, and you’re ready.