Great stuff, I will give it a try. The Google vs chatGPT/Perplexity stats are impressive. If you have any other tips which you know work, please shout! Thanks Team!
The conversion gap is the number worth sitting with 15.9% from ChatGPT vs 1.76% from Google organic. That's not a marginal difference, that's a different category of reader. Higher intent, closer to a decision. And most Substack writers are completely invisible to that traffic because their posts aren't structured to be extracted.
The CITED framework operationalizes something most writers do accidentally when it works: give AI engines a clear, citable answer early, then build the argument around it. Worth implementing deliberately.
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My main concern is that this will be like the problem I had with SEO. The way they want it structured is so different from how I think and process when I write. It was too overwhelming then, and my concern is that it will be too overwhelming now.
Great stuff, I will give it a try. The Google vs chatGPT/Perplexity stats are impressive. If you have any other tips which you know work, please shout! Thanks Team!
Thank you for the interest and the support!
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The conversion gap is the number worth sitting with 15.9% from ChatGPT vs 1.76% from Google organic. That's not a marginal difference, that's a different category of reader. Higher intent, closer to a decision. And most Substack writers are completely invisible to that traffic because their posts aren't structured to be extracted.
The CITED framework operationalizes something most writers do accidentally when it works: give AI engines a clear, citable answer early, then build the argument around it. Worth implementing deliberately.
I write about production AI systems and distributed backends subscribing here too.
Hi, would this work for content published on websites as well, is the theory the same? Thanks
My main concern is that this will be like the problem I had with SEO. The way they want it structured is so different from how I think and process when I write. It was too overwhelming then, and my concern is that it will be too overwhelming now.
I can’t wait to try this skill!!