AI Search: What We're Doing for Our Clients—and What You Need to Do for Your Website in the Shifting World of SEO
AI Search: What We're Doing for Our Clients—and What You Need to Do for Your Website in the Shifting World of SEO
The Future of Search Is Here. Is Your Website Ready?
Let’s not sugarcoat it: the way people find information online is changing—fast. And if your website is still playing by the old SEO rulebook, it’s about to get left behind.
AI-driven search is rewriting the playbook. Google’s rolling out its Search Generative Experience (SGE), and platforms like ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Claude aren’t just crawling your content—they’re summarizing it, interpreting it, and delivering answers directly to users without necessarily sending traffic to your site.
So even if you have the right answers, you're no longer guaranteed visibility.
We're not hoping this trend slows down—we’re building for what’s next. And more importantly, we’re building for you.
AI Is the New Gatekeeper
Traditional SEO focused on keywords, backlinks, meta descriptions, and mobile optimization. Those still matter—but they’re no longer enough.
Today, machines are the first to read your site. And they aren’t evaluating how visually appealing your homepage is or how clever your copy sounds. They’re scanning for structure, clarity, and context. They want to know what your page is about instantly.
So we asked ourselves: what makes a site readable by AI?
The answer: quite a bit. And we’ve already started addressing it.
What We’re Doing to Prepare Your Site for AI Search
We’re baking AI-readiness into every Zack Greenfield developed site using our Mysite editor platform—automatically. No extra work needed. Here's how:
AI-Optimized HTML Structure
We’re refining the behind-the-scenes code to be machine-friendly. That includes semantic HTML tags, clean heading structures, proper metadata, and schema markup. These elements may be invisible to your site’s visitors, but they’re critical to how machines understand and rank your content.
Structured Content That’s Easy to Summarize
AI tools often don’t show links—they show direct answers. That means your content needs to be digestible, scannable, and well-structured. We help shape your pages so that search engines can extract clear, valuable information quickly and accurately.
Real-Time Adaptation to AI’s Evolution
The AI landscape is moving fast. We’re not taking a “set it and forget it” approach. Our teams are constantly updating the platform to keep pace with how AI tools evaluate and display content.
Auto-Generated llms.txt: Your AI-Friendly Content Map
Every time you publish a Zack Greenfield developed site using our Mysite editor platform, we automatically create an llms.txt file. It includes:
- A list of your live URLs—blog posts, store products and categories, and multilingual pages
- Meta descriptions for each page (or titles if descriptions aren’t set)
- Only public-facing content—no drafts or no-index pages
This small file carries a lot of weight. Most sites don’t have it. Yours does. That means AI tools are far more likely to:
- Accurately understand and represent your business
- Link to your real, live content
- Present your brand professionally across the AI-driven web
Want to see it for yourself? Add /llms.txt to the end of your site’s URL and you’ll see exactly how your site presents itself to AI.
What You Can Do Next
We’re handling the technical heavy lifting—but content still matters. Here’s how to make sure your messaging works for both people and machines:
Write to Explain, Not Just to Sell
AI tools are looking for clear, direct answers. Structure your content to address real questions and solve real problems quickly and efficiently.
Use Headers to Guide Readers and Machines
Headings (like H1s and H2s) and bullet points don’t just help with readability—they give your content the structure AI systems need to parse and summarize effectively.
Stop Writing for Google. Start Writing for the New Reality
Think beyond keyword stuffing. Think about what an AI tool would extract from your content. Is it helpful? Is it clear? That’s what matters now.
The Bottom Line
SEO isn’t dead—but it is changing. Ranking is no longer the end goal. Now it’s about showing up in AI-generated answers, in the content summaries delivered directly to billions of users.
The brands that win in this new era won’t necessarily have the flashiest websites. They’ll be the ones that built smart, structured, AI-ready content early—and kept evolving.
We’re making sure every Zack Greenfield developed site using our Mysite editor platform is built for that future.
If you're already working with us, you're ahead of the curve. If not, now’s the time to adapt—before you find yourself wondering why your traffic suddenly dropped off.
The shift is happening. Those who prepare will lead.
