AI & SEO

How can ChatGPT benefit my SEO and Digital Marketing efforts?

You will almost certainly have heard of ChatGPT, the Artificial Intelligence (AI) chatbot that uses natural language processing to create human-like, conversational dialogue. OpenAI developed it before launching it in late November last year.

This revolutionary game-changer is already being used in myriad ways, including to generate ideas for marketing campaigns, product development or writing. It can summarise long text, explain complex subjects and write and debug codes or translate or paraphrase words. People are using it to generate social media posts, or as a search engine to find information.

And it’s not just a tool. Used properly, combining human creativity and the power of technology, you could produce more and better work at speed.

Harnessing its power for digital marketing and SEO

So how can you use this tool to stay ahead of the competition? How can you optimise AI’s power to make data-driven, informed decisions about meeting the needs of your audience?

  • Understanding your target market

ChatGPT can help you to gain insights into your audience to inform your marketing strategy by streamlining your market research. Use it to condense and analyse large volumes of information. This saves you time and means you work more quickly and responsively.

It can help whether you want to understand a particular audience or explore a fresh market. You can gather data quickly to help your decision making. It can also condense and analyse huge quantities of text-based data. This allows you to understand what people are saying about your brand, for example on social media, and highlight useful patterns and trends.

  • Stimulating ideas

Often, with a single prompt, you can generate ideas about audience needs and how to market to them. This can provide a useful starting point.

  • Producing content and ideas at scale

Produce ideas at an unprecedented rate. If you use specific prompts, and focus on those tasks ChatGPT does well, you can produce ideas and content which strike a chord with your target demographic, whether that’s social media, web content or anything else.

  • Keyword research

You can use ChatGPT for speedy, powerful keyword research, whatever the topic, in conjunction with other tools.

One suggestion is to input:

“List without description the top (x) most popular keywords for the topic of (x)”

You can also ask for long-tail keywords and semantically related ones – or about sub-topics. Equally, you can generate keyword ideas according to a question, or based on a customer persona, searcher intent or keyword clustering.

As with many other digital tools, ChatGPT has both free and paid-for keywords research options. And you could verify the results you get via a classic keyword research tool.

What are the limitations of ChatGPT?

Like anything else, ChatGPT is not perfect:

  • It can’t fully replace people – it’s best used alongside human expertise and creativity. As ever, it’s all about balance.
  • You may not get the brilliant ideas you want on the first attempt. After all, it’s only as good as the prompt you give it. You need to be specific in your prompts and willing to experiment with different ones.
  • You’ll still need to check the AI-generated results against your own audience insights.
  • You should remember how new the technology still is, and that you may not receive wholly accurate suggestions, for example for keyword research. (Equally, there are no SEO metrics to help here).
  • The tech is programmed not to supply harmful or toxic responses. So, it can’t answer those kinds of questions.

Finally, it’s best not used as a standalone but with other techniques and tools, as part of your overall marketing strategy.

Talk to us

There’s no denying that ChatGPT is a powerful resource with the potential to transform your approach to promoting your business, despite the pitfalls, provided you don’t trust it blindly. Here at Front Page Advantage, we’re all excited about this tool, and, like everyone else, still learning about it. Talk to us today about what AI could do for your brand.