Optimizing For Traditional Search Engines Vs AI Platforms
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Voices of Search // A Search Engine Optimization (SEO) & Content Marketing Podcast
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What is the main dilemma between traditional SEO and AI platform optimization?
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This is the Voice of Search Podcast. I'm Jordan Cooney, and joining us today is Chris Andrew, co-founder and CEO at Scrunch AI, which helps businesses optimize their presence across generative AI platforms. All right, Chris, let's dive into our lightning round.
Why does Chris suggest focusing on human‑centered content to serve both Google and AI models?
Toss up. Would you choose to optimize for traditional search engines or AI platforms if you could only focus on one for the next quarter?
It's a very tricky question. I think I would focus on the tactics that AI models need, but in a traditional search way. And I realize that's kind of a dodge on your answer because traditional search engine optimization is the foundation. For how these models are deciding what to look at, right? So if you're not being ranked by Google, by Bing, by OpenAI's search index, their new search bot, you're very unlikely to be surfaced from an AI perspective. Now, the long tail of content means they're looking further into the search results to find the right match. But I think there's a situation here where these two things do play nicely together, right? There's no reason you need to have a ton of complexity on your page with a bunch of JavaScript.
I think you can serve Google and the AI models if you think about writing for humans. I think if you think about creating content for human intent, you're going to be able to win at both games.
How can marketers balance traditional search foundations with AI‑optimized tactics?
I think it's a very risky strategy to say SEO is dead when Google represents 90% plus traffic for most businesses today. I see that shifting very rapidly in some cases, but I would say I would not be walking away from traditional search engine optimization. I would be thinking very, very heavily about how AI optimized content, the way models read and interpret, can still fit into your overall search practice. So don't mean to dodge the question by picking just one or picking two, but I think that's how I would think about it if I were a marketer. in in a in a brand position.
If we're to stay just with traditional search, right? Just the the conventional Google or Bing search experiences, and you had to do a toss up between investing heavily in AIOs or AI based experiences in the search versus non AIO placements, how would you invest between those two?
I invest heavily in the AIO outcomes. And there's two reasons why. The results for AI generated for returns are actually changing faster. And part of the reason is in many cases, the models are accessing your content in basically real time. So I'm asking a prompt.
What makes AI‑generated search results update faster than classic search indexes?
Prompt is often turned into a search query behind the scenes. A search index is returned. The model is determining what pages to look at. in looking at that content and essentially real time to answer and cite your page as a source. That's a very dramatic shift, right? If it used to be Wait three days, wait 10 days for the next time you get indexed. That's the next time you're going to have a content change. We're shifting to a world where you're able to make a change to your site today, and there's a chance that an AI overview or GPT-generated result is going to leverage that new content five seconds later because it's crawling that page in real time. It's like, okay, this page looks relevant. The title and description seem meaningful.
Let me go download and
How does real‑time content crawling by AI change the speed of indexing and ranking?
scrape this content and see if I can use it to answer my question. So if you make a change to your content pages pages today, you have a very high likelihood of having that content returned in a net new GPT result, perplexity result, AI overview.
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Chapters
5 chapters
1
What is the main dilemma between traditional SEO and AI platform optimization?
0:00–0:59
2
Why does Chris suggest focusing on human‑centered content to serve both Google and AI models?
0:59–2:08
3
How can marketers balance traditional search foundations with AI‑optimized tactics?
2:08–3:20
4
What makes AI‑generated search results update faster than classic search indexes?
3:20–4:02
5
How does real‑time content crawling by AI change the speed of indexing and ranking?
4:02–5:01