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Do you trust SEO advice from AI?
Posted by on March 5, 2026 at 6:47 pmSeeing a lot of tools and auto-responses being given on Reddit and on X.
Looks like a lot of tools being built all include what are "red flags" to me – like:
- "E-E-A-T" signals. For some reason, LLMs always output EEAT as E-E-A-T – its like an Em-Dash, its such a tell tale (as is "Curious what everyone else thinks)
- Great content
- Page Speed
- Content Structure/Length
There's literally no way to detect EEAT. You can detect the fabricated eeat signals – but this is so far from reality its crazy. Don't get me wrong: this means more business for the top tier SEOs
The SEO starter guide makes it clear that Google doesn't give 2 about content structure or length – yet people are literally building "AI SEO" tools with this.
How LLMs actually work is the problem
A lot of people have been led to believe that LLMs train on things like SEO. Maybe they even think that tehy are able to weight up good and bad content. The problem is that a lot of SEO myths – like EEAT – are popular and so they rank. LLMs aren't trained in SEO – they just take the prompt "Write an SEO strategy for a fast growing mid-west B2B company" and go to Google with queries like "best SEO Strategy" and synthesize the results
What do you trust/not trust?
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Better than whatever I’m doing. Or mostly not doing
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SEO advice sometimes, because there was one time when I asked one AI what thing do the AEO considers important to appear as the first option, and it help me at that time. But not always
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I use AI for idea generation and pattern discovery, not for SEO truth.
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Hell No
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I don’t even trust seo advice from most people, why would I trust the advice from an amalgamation of advice from most people?
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LLMs predict text based on popular training data. Since SEO myths dominate the internet, AI tools simply regurgitate those same misconceptions instead of providing factually correct ranking strategies.
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I use it to extract info from Google’s guidelines , maybe even leaks. Everything else, I would verify.
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Claude an SEO are amazing together
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Um, I’m trying to work on prompts to try get some use out of them haha, because the potential is there.
But generally I find they give some decent pointers, but also I get a sense of some things that I just need to filter out, and some stuff I need to correct it on.
I hate the copy they come up with though, just don’t feel it’s to my standards. But some good pointers with schema markup for a site that needed it manually updated.
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Any proof of EEAT being a myth?
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I don’t use it for advice. I do however use it to help me do things a little faster at scale. Not the generic bullshit content production most people use it for. Here are a few custom GPTs I’ve created.
– internal linking recommendations at scale. The GPT gets an upload of all content on a site. Takes what i give it and builds out internal linking recs. I gave it the best practices and what I want so it doesn’t deviate and go find things online that are wrong.
– content topic ideation. Leveraging data, competitors, gap analysis.
– URL analysis. Takes all data from all touch points and helps me identify garbage URLS (no clicks, impressions, links in a year), which ones are performing well, and which ones could do better with a little TLC.Just a few ways I have it help me with the workload. All strategy and direction comes from me.
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No
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I don’t trust any advice whatsoever on any subject whatsoever from AI.
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Not how most use them.
They are useful idiot checks.
I’ve used them help me put together audits and speed up other bits and bobs.
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No. Its trained on a lot of bad opinions and magical theories
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