Artificial Intelligence Content Optimization (AICO)

How to feature on AI Searches

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Introduction

Effectively optimizing your eCommerce or service business website for AI-driven visibility ensures your products or offerings are prominently featured on platforms like ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude, and Gemini. This guide details how to establish a robust technical foundation, create highly relevant content tailored to conversational AI, and adopt proactive strategies to monitor and adapt to evolving AI technologies. Implementing these best practices positions your website for increased visibility, improved customer engagement, and higher conversions from AI-driven search traffic.

Technical Optimization

A strong technical foundation is essential for maximizing your website’s visibility in AI-generated search results. By addressing key areas like indexing efficiency, structured data implementation, regular audits, and performance benchmarks, you ensure your site aligns with both traditional SEO practices and the specific demands of AI platforms, whether you sell products or offer services.

Implement IndexNow on Your Website

IndexNow accelerates your website’s indexing on Bing, significantly boosting your visibility on AI-driven platforms like ChatGPT due to OpenAI’s strategic relationship with Microsoft. While this foundational step does not guarantee immediate visibility within ChatGPT results, maintaining an ongoing IndexNow implementation ensures your site’s most important updates—such as service pages or new offerings—are consistently captured, laying strong groundwork for enhanced exposure.

Utilize Bing Webmaster Tools

Establishing a Bing Webmaster Tools account and linking it to your Google Search Console simplifies data integration. Regularly addressing Bing-specific issues highlighted within the tools enhances your website’s effectiveness in Bing search results and improves its presence in AI-generated content, directly benefiting your overall online visibility.

Implement Structured Data and Schema Markup

Adding “Q&A Structured Data” to your FAQ pages and regularly validating it with tools like Google’s Rich Results Test ensures your structured data stays compliant. Consistent maintenance of schema markup (for services, products, reviews, and locations) significantly enhances your site’s potential to be featured prominently in AI-driven answer snippets, directly supporting your visibility goals.

Conduct Regular SEO Audits and Performance Reviews

Perform quarterly SEO audits monthly for larger websites to prioritize tasks based on their importance, urgency, and effort. Strategic competitive analysis identifies critical gaps your competitors may have overlooked, providing opportunities to enhance your site’s visibility within both traditional and AI-driven search results. This applies equally to product detail pages and service landing pages.

Prioritize Core Web Vitals (CWV)

Frequent testing via Google’s PageSpeed Insights helps pinpoint areas needing improvement. Clearly prioritizing these tasks streamlines coordination with your technical teams. Improving your site’s CWV scores indirectly but crucially boosts overall search rankings, significantly enhancing your likelihood of inclusion in AI-generated search results, especially important for mobile-first users booking services on the go.

Content Optimization

Creating content optimized for AI-driven search involves strategically developing and structuring your site’s content to meet user queries accurately and conversationally. Whether you offer eCommerce products or on-site services, leveraging comprehensive FAQs, blog articles, snippet optimization, and detailed service or product descriptions makes your site highly relevant to AI-generated answers.

Develop Comprehensive FAQ Sections

Use internal customer feedback and external sources like search engines and AI platforms to build relevant FAQ content. Differentiate FAQs into product-specific questions for product pages and broader service- or category-specific questions for collection or service overview pages. Optimizing FAQs in this structured way directly increases their potential to appear prominently in conversational AI responses.

Leverage Blogs for Common Questions

Create and maintain blog content addressing common product or service questions, linking them strategically to product, collection, or service pages. For example:

  • “How often should you get a deep-tissue massage?”
  • “Best skincare ingredients for oily skin”


Such authoritative, indexed content frequently serves as primary sources for AI-driven platforms, enhancing your visibility within AI-generated answers.

Optimize for People Also Ask (PAA)

Research commonly asked questions through SEO tools and Google’s auto-complete. Clearly structure content with headers (H2/H3) followed immediately by concise answers. This strategic content formatting significantly boosts your site’s visibility in featured snippets, which AI platforms frequently reference for both eCommerce and services.

Experiment with Natural Language Processing (NLP)

Write content conversationally, mirroring authentic customer interactions and addressing real customer questions sourced from direct feedback, support calls, or user-generated content (UGC). This includes service inquiries like:

  • “Is cupping therapy painful?”
  • “How long does a lash lift last?”

Natural, conversational content significantly enhances your site’s suitability and prominence within conversational AI platforms.

Enhance Product and Service Descriptions with Rich Detail

Create detailed, informative pages highlighting features, specifications, benefits, materials, compatibility (for products), or pricing, availability, and value (for services). Rich, descriptive content not only increases consumer confidence but also significantly enhances the likelihood of your offerings being prominently featured in AI-generated summaries.

Monitor Results and Adapt

Continuous monitoring and agile adaptation are crucial for maintaining and improving visibility within AI-driven search environments. Regular evaluations of AI-platform performance, accurate tracking of AI-driven traffic, and proactive responses to technological changes ensure your website remains competitive and visible regardless of whether you’re selling items or offering appointments.

Regularly Evaluate AI Platforms

Frequently test searches on leading AI platforms such as ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude, and Gemini. Maintain dashboards to effectively track growth trends and traffic originating from these platforms. Periodically refreshing query strategies to align with evolving user behaviour ensures sustained visibility.

Accurately Track AI-Driven Traffic

While AI-driven traffic attribution through UTM codes remains inconsistent, tracking referring domains currently provides the most reliable insights. Implement advanced analytics configurations or server log reviews to improve attribution accuracy and better understand the impact of AI-driven traffic whether for product purchases or service bookings.

Stay Informed on AI Developments

Monitor developments in AI technology and platforms regularly. Conduct quarterly strategic reviews to align your content and technical optimizations with emerging AI functionalities. Proactively adapting to platform updates ensures ongoing competitive visibility opportunities and strategic growth in AI-driven traffic.

Implementation Checklist

  • Implement IndexNow: Accelerate Bing indexing and increase visibility on AI platforms.
  • Set Up Bing Webmaster Tools: Identify Bing-specific optimization issues and improve AI-generated content presence.
  • Add Structured Data (Schema Markup): Enhance content discoverability for AI-generated snippets (products & services).
  • Perform SEO Audits Regularly: Uncover strategic opportunities and address visibility gaps.
  • Improve Core Web Vitals (CWV): Boost overall search rankings to enhance AI-driven visibility.
  • Develop and Optimize FAQ Sections: Increase visibility in conversational AI responses.
  • Create Blog Content on Common Questions: Establish authoritative content for AI sourcing.
  • Optimize for People Also Ask (PAA): Improve chances of appearing in featured snippets.
  • Implement NLP Techniques: Align content closely with AI-driven conversational queries.
  • Enhance Product & Service Descriptions: Provide detailed data AI platforms prefer for summaries.
  • Regular AI Platform Checks: Monitor evolving search behaviours and adapt accordingly.
  • Advanced Analytics for AI Traffic: Gain accurate insights on AI-driven user interactions.
  • Stay Current with AI Updates: Adapt proactively to maintain a competitive advantage in AI visibility.

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Data Sources and Conditions
All paid media results with revenue/value associated with conversions as reported within advertising platforms and attribution models were unchanged during the periods compared.  All accounts and campaigns with attribution methods updated, changed or unreliable data have been omitted. Omitted data represents less than 5% of the data included in the analysis.  As can best be determined, the performance of omitted campaigns aligns with the results described in this presentation.

Please note, that this data represents the efficiency of marketing activities across many e-commerce verticals.  That mix of verticals has been consistent YOY.  If efficiencies in your particular account or campaigns are materially higher or lower than what is presented in this data, that is likely due to the opportunity inherent within the vertical category your business occupies.  The data has been analyzed and presented to represent the closest possible viewpoint to a true, consistent YOY comparison of similar investments over time.

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