Is optimizing content specifically for AIO a trend or trash?
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Voices of Search // A Search Engine Optimization (SEO) & Content Marketing Podcast
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What is the Voices of Search podcast and who is the guest for this episode?
The Voices of Search Podcast is a proud member of the I Hear Everything Podcast Network. Looking to launch or scale your podcast? I Hear Everything delivers podcast production, growth, and monetization solutions that transform your words into profit. Ready to give your brand a voice? Then visit IHear Everything.com. Welcome to the Voices of Search Podcast, a member of the I Hear Everything Podcast Network. Ready to expedite your company's organic growth efforts? Sit back, relax, and get ready for your daily dose of search engine optimization wisdom. Here's today's host of the Voices of Search Podcast, Tyson Stockton.
Is optimizing content for AI overviews a real trend or just hype?
Next one, trend or trash? Is optimizing content specifically for AIO a trend or trash?
I'm gonna say it's a trend.
All right.
I'm gonna say um snippets are the new zero click playground. So if you are paying attention at all, and I know that you are, because I see you active on LinkedIn, everybody's talking about it. It's like, oh my god, these AI overveels are killing me. And we're and we're not special. Um
How are AI snippets changing the zero‑click search landscape?
I have um this is funny. The my for my May report, I had fewer sessions, but I had an eight percent increase in revenue. But in the AI overviews, when I was looking in SEM rush, we like have I mean we're killing it in the AI overviews, which means we're offering good informational content. So we're appearing in those, but it is going to be a trend because now we have to figure out how are we going to optimize for that because re I don't know how recently Google has or that how Google, I assume it's Google, for the AI overviews. Started putting links right in those results. It didn't used to have links in those results, and now it does. So how to make the content engaging enough so that people get the answer that they want, but at the same time encourage them to click through in those links that are within those AI overviews.
So I think that that's a mystery to all of us.
Why are links now appearing inside AI overviews and how does that affect click‑through rates?
So that's what I'm gonna say. It's trending because like I said earlier, AI is not going away. We just have to learn how to adapt to it. So I'm gonna go with it's it's trending. I'm a big proponent of AI. I do I've I'm one of the people who has embraced it. Uh however I hate those AI overviews. Even as a even as a searcher. Yeah, even as a searcher, not just an SEO.
What strategies can creators use to make AI‑generated answers engaging yet still drive traffic?
It's like I don't want that. It's like I didn't ask you for that. But then it's sometimes I do like when I'm doing comparisons, it's like 'cause I have this side business and sometimes I want to know where to get the best price. uh product for my for my website and I want to make sure it's American made and so I'll say I you know help me find and or I have these two products compare them side by side and tell me which one's American made and it's great for that but like the weather I don't need that AI overview. I want to go to the weatherchannel.com because maybe I want to look at what everywhere else in the country is looking like. So it is a it's a catch twenty two for sure. I really hate them as an SEO.
Fair enough.
What are the biggest frustrations SEO professionals face with AI overviews?
Well, that's gonna wrap up this episode of the Voice of Search podcast. Thanks again to Donna Donnahue from Atelia Scientific for joining us. If you'd like to contact Donna, you can find a link to her LinkedIn profile in her show notes. Or for more information on Atelia Scientific, you can find them at entelia.com. If you haven't subscribed yet and you want a daily stream of SEO and content marketing knowledge in your podcast feed, hit that subscribe button on your podcast app or on YouTube and we'll be back in your feed in the following days. Alright, that's all for today. Thanks for stopping by, Voice of Search, and we'll see you in the next episode.
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Chapters
6 chapters
1
What is the Voices of Search podcast and who is the guest for this episode?
0:00–0:43
2
Is optimizing content for AI overviews a real trend or just hype?
0:43–1:18
3
How are AI snippets changing the zero‑click search landscape?
1:18–2:25
4
Why are links now appearing inside AI overviews and how does that affect click‑through rates?
2:25–2:51
5
What strategies can creators use to make AI‑generated answers engaging yet still drive traffic?
2:51–3:41
6
What are the biggest frustrations SEO professionals face with AI overviews?
3:41–4:21