AI And Content Marketing: How the Digital Landscape Will Divide

You’ve been using the traditional ‘Google search bar’ less and less, right?

When you have a question, you go straight to master Chat and look for the answer there.

Honestly, it saves so much time because we don’t have to sift through a bunch of articles just to answer one simple question.

But… have you ever thought about us bloggers and how this impacts us? 🙁

Is our traffic going to plummet? Are our wives going to leave us?

(okay, let’s not be that dramatic…)

Or, if you’re making content yourself – have you thought about the consequences? Do you think you’ll see a decline in traffic since no one is actually Googling stuff anymore, and AI and content marketing are now tangled up in totally new ways?

Personally, I’m not afraid of this. Chat can go catch these fists if it wants to.

In this article, I’ll show you what my plan is to keep my business from bankrupting… and why you miiight be interested in doing the same.

I’ll also make 5 fun AI-related predictions, which you might find pretty useful since every ‘catastrophe’ can be turned into an opportunity.

The robots won’t get us.

How Will SEO Content Marketing Evolve As a Result of The Rise Of AI?

Many users will gradually move from traditional search engines to using LLMs directly for their queries.

And here comes the first prediction…

#1: Instead of SEO optimization, content marketers will have to focus on LLM optimization.

We’ll have to make sure that our SEO content isn’t just easily findable on Google… but that LLMs like ChatGPT recommend our blogs.

I can’t exactly guess how AI is going to decide whether it shows our article or not, however, one thing is sure.

Just like now, you’ll have to write truly helpful articles. I believe that if you try to write the best and most insightful article every time you touch a keyboard – you’ll be just fine.

So, the goal remains the same: satisfying readers more than a crappy AI article can.

That will, in turn, satisfy search engines and LLMs, as both want what’s best for the user.

#2: AI tools like Chat or Gemini might promote sponsored content, which would create new business models and advertising opportunities.

This one would be crazy cool.

Imagine having AMAZING authority content and promoting it in ChatGPT. How much more traffic could you get? Hundreds? Thousands? Millions?

Skip 3 years to find out…

Why I’m NOT Scared Of AI Agents And How To Profit From The AI Takeover

As we already said, AI pulling information in a streamlined and self-contained way will make many content marketers unhappy.

To that, I say – if you want to be unhappy about something, you’ll find a way.

And if you want to see an opportunity somewhere, you’ll also find a way.

AI systems need fresh, diverse, and reliable content to continuously enrich their knowledge bases. They can’t simply learn from their own generated texts without risking stagnation or decline in quality.

#3: AI providers will likely seek out high-quality, unique content, especially from creators who can provide rich details, fresh news, and in-depth analysis.

So, if your content is good enough, you might make it into a ‘select group of content creators’ who produce truly valuable material.

Then, AI can actively credit and integrate this content, possibly through licensing agreements, APIs, or even blockchain-based tokenization of knowledge.

BUT… and this is a big but…

Not all content creators will be welcomed into this new system.

If you produce average or mediocre content (aka middle-class content), you’ll struggle to stay relevant.

I’m not scared of that, but it does push me to be better.

To write better stories.

To engineer ways to get the best possible research and backlinks for these articles.

To put more fun ‘games’ into the article (like cool predictions!)

If you do the same, I’m not concerned that you’ll find success. I mean, right now, lots of us use ChatGPT as a new Google, and still, if you go to your keywords planner software…

… you’ll see that people STILL look for stuff online. It’s not doomsday. But do prepare for the future.

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It’s a resource that will help you… well… launch your business, of course. Inside, you’ll find everything you need to start and build your next cool biz.

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The Dual Pathway That Will Split The Content Universe Into Two Distinct Realms

Time for another prediction.

#4: Winning content will be split into a ‘dual pathway’, but a third, already existing pathway, will close.

The first one is rational, tokenized content…

This side represents deep, expert-level material that is highly structured, verifiable, and enriched with data.

It can be traded or licensed and will form the backbone of AI-driven answers for professional contexts.

Think of this as content that serves critical functions, like detailed financial analysis, corporate strategy, or advanced technological insights.

If you write similar content, you’ll have to give insights that no one else does.

The second pathway is emotional/engaging content.

Yes, this type of content will be crafted to be entertaining, but it doesn’t mean it won’t contain good information.

If you want to write this type of content, you’ll have to learn how to inject your personality and storytelling into your content.

That way, people will want to keep learning from YOU specifically. ChatGPT can give them the answers, but not with your tone and personality.

Chat probably won’t make as many mediocre jokes. (sorry!)

I think we’ll see a rise in personality-driven businesses since humans will always have a need for connection, no matter how advanced the LLMs get.

Then… there’s a third branch, which is the middle class of content, once again.

That’s content that doesn’t specialize deeply in expert insights and also doesn’t have that magnetic personal charm.

#5: That type of content might work okay now to bring traffic, but I think it will eventually be squeezed out of the market.

How Can I Use AI To Help Me Write My Content?

While AI might give us some challenges that we need to adapt to, it can honestly also help us a lot.

Even right now.

I use AI a LOT for these articles. Obviously, I have a team of very handsome writers (haha thank you, I wonder who wrote this), but AI assists them.

I want to tell you a little bit about how I set it up since most people do it completely wrong.

You have to understand, ChatGPT and other bots are like skilled and fast, but very dumb employees.

The quality of their work heavily depends on how thoroughly and clearly you explain the input to this dumb but fast employee.

90% of people don’t bother and just write: “Hey, ChatGPT, write me an article about product marketing.”

No wonder you get a very average result.

But if you spent like 15 minutes working on the AI bot and giving it the right context, telling it who you are, what you want, what your goals and limitations are, the external environment around you… you’ll get a better result.

You can then use that improved output as the structure on which you build to make a fantastic article.

Takeaways

And the final verdict is…

… SEO marketing isn’t dead and likely won’t be any time soon. Yes, some challenges will emerge, but nothing you can’t adapt to.

In this article, I made 5 predictions about the future of AI and content marketing, and I also gave you my two cents about staying relevant in the future. Here’s the summary:

• Prediction #1: Instead of SEO optimization, content marketers will have to focus on LLM optimization.
• Ways to make sure that AI shows YOUR blog might show up. A huge part of that will probably just be writing articles that are truly helpful.
• Prediction #2: AI tools like Chat or Gemini might promote sponsored content, which would create new business models and advertising opportunities.
• I mean, imagine advertising on ChatGPT. The opportunities could be endless.
• Prediction #3: AI providers will likely seek out high-quality, unique content, especially from creators who can provide rich details, fresh news, and in-depth analysis.
• If you simply ‘wing it’ when you write your articles and you do no extra research… I’m not sure how long you’ll last.
• Prediction #4: Winning content will be split into a ‘dual pathway’, but a third, already existing pathway, will close.
• The first one is the deeply specialized expert pathway.
• The second one is the highly personal, entertaining, and charismatic educational content. People can’t get that with AI.
• Prediction #5: The third pathway, which is the “middle-class content”, will eventually be squeezed out of the market.
• Right now, average content might work okay because of the inherent keyword value. But if it doesn’t have either deeply specialized information or a charismatic flare, AI will eat it up.