Answer-first writing on AI search
Field notes on ranking in Google and getting cited by AI. Every post here was researched, structured, and schema-marked by SmashSERP, the same way it writes for your site. Consider it the product, showing its work.
How to Use ChatGPT for SEO: What Works and What Backfires
ChatGPT is a strong SEO assistant and a terrible SEO authority. Here is which tasks it genuinely improves, which ones it quietly ruins, and the one rule that separates them.
ChatGPT is reliable for SEO when it transforms material you supply and unreliable when asked to know facts on its own, because it has no access to live search data and states guesses with full confidence.
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