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AI-Powered �Website Optimization

  • Data-driven empathy, powered by generative AI
  • Molly Bruckman
  • Andy Crestodina

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1. Create an AI-powered persona of your target audience

2. Find opportunities to improve content on your key pages

3. Find opportunities to adjust your content strategy

Session Objectives

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What is Website Optimization?

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SEO + CRO = Website Optimization

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Search Engine Optimization

Conversion Rate Optimization

  • Selecting keywords that our audience uses and we have a chance of ranking for�
  • Creating detailed keyphrase-focused pages that satisfy their information needs�
  • Measuring and improving those pages over time

Attract qualified visitors from search, creating traffic and visibility.

  • Writing copy that answers questions and addresses objections�
  • Adding evidence to support our answers�
  • Creating calls to action and a clear flow�
  • Measuring and improving those pages over time

Maximizing the percentage of our visitors who take a profitable action.

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SEO + CRO = Website Optimization

Traffic Source

Thank You Page

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My story

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AI is a “skills leveler”

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Most bloggers use it for some things. �Few use it for everything

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Write articles

How can AI help you?

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How can AI help you?

Audience research

Brainstorm ideas

Write outlines

Write first drafts

Create social media posts

Create visuals

Write email marketing copy

SEO edits

Write descriptions

Convert between formats

Editing existing copy

Write / edit service pages

Train it to be

like your audience

Train it to be

like you

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Audience

Your Brand

The Purpose of Marketing

Content Strategy and Lead Generation

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Understand Your

Audience

Your Brand

The Purpose of AI for Marketers

Content Strategy and Lead Generation

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Understand Your

Audience

Quickly Create

Better Experiences

The Purpose of AI for Marketers

Content Strategy and Lead Generation

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Create an AI-Powered Persona

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who

where

doing what

what we want to know about them

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Job title

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Company size

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Business category

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Geography

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Company purpose

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Business challenge

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I want their goals and pain points…

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…and their decision criteria for buying my services

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Aurora Launch Services

A spaceport providing launch services to commercial satellite operators

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A good start…

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Tell it what it missed

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Ask it anything, day or night!

It never gets tired of answering your questions…

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Aurora Launch Services Homepage

• 325 words total

• One header, one subhead

• Three long paragraphs

• Ranks #28 for “spacecraft launch services”

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Prompt

Paste in your

page copy

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Definitely some gaps here…

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Grab a list of related keyphrases!

We want to target the topic, not just the primary keyphrase.

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A detailed page

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A detailed page

focused on the primary keyphrase

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A detailed page

focused on the primary keyphrase

and includes the related phrases and subtopics.

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Semantically related phrases:

“small satellites”

“launch vehicles”

“low earth orbit”

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Related questions and answers

“How much does it cost…?

“space launch system”

Entity names

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Semantically related phrases:

“spaceflight”

“rocket launch”

“cubesat”

“launch locations”

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Dozens of keyphrases related to the topic

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Include only one URL

Exclude branded queries

EXPORT

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Now we’ll load those phrases into the AI

It will use them to suggest SEO copy edits

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First, tell it to categorize

Give it the list of phrases

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Now they’re categorized!�

Add anything it missed

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This matrix shows the opportunities for both conversion and SEO

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Here is the scoring system it devised

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An outline for a search and

conversion optimized page

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Ask it to read a blog

…it can’t

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Tell it that it already read a blog

…no problem!

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Turbo AI-Powered Competitive Analysis

Of course, it won’t be perfectly accurate!

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Prompt

Paste in your competitor’s copy

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Competitive analysis based on the persona’s needs

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Ask it for a bar chart

comparing your site to theirs

See the content gaps?

*requires ChatGPT Plus with Code Interpreter

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what will we do with the extra time?

If AI makes us 20% more efficient,

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Prompt Cheat Sheet

1. Build me a persona of a [job title] who works for a [company size] [industry] company in [geography] that does [business goals]. List the roles, goals, challenges, pain points and decision criteria for selecting a spaceship launch services company.

2. Review the following webpage content. How does it align or not align with the persona’s  information needs? [paste in the webpage copy]

3. Build a table with three columns. In the first column, list all of the persona’s information needs. Prioritize the list with the top priorities at the top.

In the second column, make the heading “Conversion Clarity (0-5)” and in that column, show the conversion score on a scale of 0-5. The conversion score is the webpage’s ability to both inform and persuade the visitor on a given topic. Give lower scores when the page includes very little information, when the information is poorly supported with evidence, or when the information is indirect or vague.

In the third column, make the heading “Keyphrase Relevance (0-5)” and in that column, show the relevance score on a scale of 0-5. The relevance score is the extent to which the page incorporates the keyphrases from the keyphrase categories. Give higher scores if the page includes most or all of the phrases from a given category.

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Where you can reach me

  • LinkedIn
  • Orbit Media blog
  • Content Chemistry

Thank you!

Andy Crestodina

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Your challenge

IMMUNITY IDOL CODE: Persona-AI�

Create a persona of your target audience using ChatGPT. Use this persona to discover possible improvements to your marketing.�

  • List 5 ideas for high-impact website improvements
  • Show the specific edits to copy or page structure
  • Indicate which of your marketing metrics would be impacted by that improvement

Submit a link to your Google Sheet to complete this challenge and score 200 points.