today feels weird 2022: sold my startup for $10m thought that was the peak 2024: restarted from 0 today: realized my products made more since 2024, than the exit I had in 2022 🤯 one takeaway: you can always go further than you think

I ran an AEO experiment and found something critical the median DR of websites AI cites is 86 I asked ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini and Claude the same set of questions and pulled the DR of all 1,329 sources they cited say you ask ChatGPT “best CRM for startups”. it searches, reads a bunch of pages, cites around 7 sources and writes you an answer you read the answer, but the AI read the blog posts first and decided who gets quoted here’s what the cited pages have in common: - trust only 7% of citations came from sites under DR 30 AI quotes sites the web already trusts, and that trust is built with backlinks - page format 73% of the sources were blog content: listicles, articles and comparisons product and landing pages were 7%, and forums and social were only 3% - original data ChatGPT is the exception: only 18% of its citations were blog content, and 63% were the original source, like a pricing page or the docs AI quotes the place a fact comes from, so if your post repeats the same stats as 40 other posts, there’s nothing in it to quote - interactivity on the page many cited pages had a calculator, chart, table or template the few humans who click through already read the AI’s summary, so they click to do something, not to read now you can’t get to DR 86 right away, but you can do 2 things: 1. get to DR 30+ in less than 5 months 2. get your product mentioned in the exact listicles AI keeps citing Outrank helps you do both it builds backlinks for you automatically and gets your product the #1 spot in the listicles AI cites so after this experiment, we rebuilt all 280 posts on the Outrank blog this week. 275 of them now have a calculator, chart, checklist or template that’s what we’re building into every Outrank article: real data, backlinks that raise your DR, and pages worth clicking so now we write for the AI first, then give the human a reason to click

traffic from ChatGPT is skyrocketing on my apps and Ilias shares a gem here this is such a good framework side note: i looked into it and blog posts are 73% of what AI looks at when replying blogging is faaarr from being dead

Anthropic's interpretability researcher on how AI models plan and think

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views ramping up first vid to break 1k so yes, it's possible to create great content with AI that will actually make you learn something xitter.cf/tibo_maker/status/2110…

2nd checked above 1k and the first grew even more since scheduled 🎉 all done by Revid.ai and Squad.so

i lost 500ml of blood today 😅 go give blood, you can save a life