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LLMs don't prefer listicles—they prefer recommendation searches. Try "how to choose the best" articles instead 👀 #GEO #ChatGPTSEO #AIMarketing #SEOtips

2025-12-31published
tiktokplatform
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I wanna talk about the most effective strategy for being recommended by large language models like Chat, G P T. And Google's A I. Mode. You've been watching my videos or following other people talking about G E O. You might already have an idea of what I'm gonna say. It's listicles, right? And that's half true. Listicles are incredibly effective right now. But I'm seeing some data that makes me think it's not for the reason people think. And if I'm right, this could open up some new opportunities that are equally as impactful and less icky. When someone goes to a large language model looking for a recommendation, the first thing the large language model is going to do is perform a search in a traditional search engine. And the reason Chat, GPT, or Google's A I. Mode does this is because it's looking for recommendations across the internet, and that's why it loves listicles. These are lis

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I wanna talk about the most effective strategy for being recommended by large language models like Chat, G P T. And Google's A I. Mode. You've been watching my videos or following other people talking about G E O. You might already have an idea of what I'm gonna say. It's listicles, right? And that's half true. Listicles are incredibly effective right now. But I'm seeing some data that makes me think it's not for the reason people think. And if I'm right, this could open up some new opportunities that are equall...
ove listicles, but that's not quite true. The truth is that large language models love to search for things like best X and Y. They search for recommendations. It just happens to be that the vast majority of pages that are optimized for these terms are listicles. And this is because the vast majority of these listicles are automatically generated by directory websites. Once you have a directory and a way to rank different businesses or products, it's very easy to programmatically generate as many listicles as yo...
going to have any impact on the large language model's recommendation. And you want that explicit recommendation as close to the top of the article as possible, preferably in the first sentence. Now, that might still feel a little icky to you, but it sure beats putting a listicle on your website with you at the top. Now, to be completely honest, the brands that are having the most success are doing both the listicle and the how to choose the best article. There's really no limit to the effectiveness of recommend...

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“How to choose the best X for Y” articles may perform similarly to listicles for AI recommendations if they explicitly recommend the brand near the top.

AI visibility / listicles alternative · asserts

ove listicles, but that's not quite true. The truth is that large language models love to search for things like best X and Y. They search for recommendations. It just happens to be that the vast majority of pages that are optimized for these terms are listicles. And this is because the vast majority of these listicles are automatically generated by direc...

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Publishing thousands of recommendation-style pages per month may create scaled-content-abuse penalty risk.

Risk/avoid / recommendation spam · asserts

going to have any impact on the large language model's recommendation. And you want that explicit recommendation as close to the top of the article as possible, preferably in the first sentence. Now, that might still feel a little icky to you, but it sure beats putting a listicle on your website with you at the top. Now, to be completely honest, the brand...

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A products/services by demographics/use-cases/service-areas matrix can identify combinations for AI-retrieval recommendation content.

Content planning / recommendation matrix · asserts

going to have any impact on the large language model's recommendation. And you want that explicit recommendation as close to the top of the article as possible, preferably in the first sentence. Now, that might still feel a little icky to you, but it sure beats putting a listicle on your website with you at the top. Now, to be completely honest, the brand...

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