| ▲ | jack_pp 4 hours ago |
| Considering that LLMs will give increasingly better sources for their stuff you still want to make it easy for Google to index your stuff. Also keep in mind if your site is better indexed by crawlers you can literally influence future LLMs |
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| ▲ | giaour 4 hours ago | parent | next [-] |
| > Also keep in mind if your site is better indexed by crawlers you can literally influence future LLMs Ah, what a glorious fate to aspire to. Most people I know who have maintained blogs do so to build their personal brand, normally because they make a living through writing or consulting. Gently influencing the pre-tuning weights of future models is just providing unpaid labor to hyperscalers. |
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| ▲ | jack_pp 4 hours ago | parent [-] | | I remember reading somewhere that you can influence Gemini search for example, say you're selling vacuum cleaners, you want to make a landing page for it basically saying it is the best vacuum in existence and Gemini will recommend it above others or something like that. LE: so if you're consulting for Elixir or whatever, maybe it can help to make a "hidden" page only for LLM search where you basically lie about yourself making yourself to be the utmost Elixir expert on the planet | | |
| ▲ | calessian 4 hours ago | parent [-] | | It's somewhat unfortunate that, at least in my experience, its rather that non-technical people try to implement with a LLM of their choice these days. They don't look for experts or consulting, because that costs more than $20, or $200. Whether you show up in an LLM's search for "expert in <topic> near <location>" has any measurable impact is uncertain, but I wouldn't want that to be my source of traffic. | | |
| ▲ | jack_pp 4 hours ago | parent [-] | | By your own logic, whoever is searching for consultants has big enough projects to need a consultant so you will get only good leads from this. Maybe add a JS object at the top of the page which requires proof of work or smth so LLMs won't scrape it, where you expose the lie to whoever visits your site, pointing them to your "real" CV and that this page is for hacking LLMs |
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| ▲ | krapp 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-] |
| I want people to know about my website but if I could I would make search engines and LLMs burst into flames like I was Captain Kirk explaining love to them. |
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| ▲ | jack_pp 4 hours ago | parent [-] | | Yes, of course you want people to know about your website. Just saying if your website is regarded as useful/original enough by Google to cite as a source.. people will visit your website to check sources. Might be a small amount of people but still. At this point complaining about the current/future state of search is just gonna make you into a grumpy old man. As always, accept the situation since you can not do anything to change it... and adapt | | |
| ▲ | jdiff 2 hours ago | parent [-] | | If such people exist, they are far, far fewer in numbers than they were in the past. I also don't accept that nothing can be done about this situation. Inevitability and helplessness are beloved tools of AI hypesters (and others) but there's little evidence to support it. | | |
| ▲ | jack_pp an hour ago | parent [-] | | What evidence is there that you or me can steer Google off this path? Can you stop wars around the world? Can you make crypto dissapear? There are a multitude of global trends that 99.9999% of people are helpless about | | |
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