{"id":15015,"date":"2025-07-29T16:34:45","date_gmt":"2025-07-29T20:34:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/leap.staging.ribbitt.com\/humanx\/?p=15015"},"modified":"2025-07-29T16:47:00","modified_gmt":"2025-07-29T20:47:00","slug":"aio-vs-seo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/leap.staging.ribbitt.com\/humanx\/insights\/seo\/aio-vs-seo\/","title":{"rendered":"AIO vs. SEO"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
Less than a decade ago, SEO was the VIP ticket to website traffic, email subscriptions, and sales. Global company or burgeoning brand, search engine optimization gave you the coveted digital edge of landing above the fold. The past few years, however, have launched an entirely new form of online optimization, and the driving force is artificial intelligence.
Like most new technologies, AI optimization has quickly risen to trend-setting levels of popularity. Every blog recommends it, every expert heralds it as the future of digital marketing \u2014 but without a deep understanding of how AI search optimization works, how it compares to search engine optimization, and which option yields the best results, AI optimization is little more than a buzzword.
Join (human)x as we unlock the secrets of both methods and explore how SEO and AIO might actually work best in tandem to give your marketing campaigns the best chance at success.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
Before we determine a winning strategy and investigate ways to implement it, let’s define our terms. While there are similarities in AIO and SEO outcomes, their differences lie in their approaches to content structure.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
TL;DR: SEO gets you found, AIO makes you useful, and both require structured, authoritative content to be successful at the ultimate goal of raising brand awareness.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
Ask any online search engine to declare a winner between AIO and SEO and you\u2019ll be wading through pages of conflicting answers.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
Rather than rely on niche opinions, we prefer to base our recommendations on facts, so here’s a glimpse into the conversion lift your brand could anticipate when incorporating each type of optimization:<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
AIO Lift:<\/strong> According to a comprehensive HubSpot analysis of AI-optimized content, AIO delivers significantly stronger conversion performance. Specifically, the company’s findings noted that e-commerce marketing campaigns constructed around AI optimization generated a 37% higher conversion rate<\/a> than traditional campaigns, with other industries experiencing up to a 52% conversion lift. What’s more, IBM published findings late last year concluding that about 66% of businesses that adopted AI saw a 25% or higher increase in their revenue growth rate.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t