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13 statements across 2 episodes · 5 bullish · 0 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Dec 1, 2022 by Ethan Smith · said 17 times in 4 episodes since 2022 · across every show →

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Dec 1, 2022 bullish
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Smith: Fixing internal link distribution typically yields a 25%+ traffic lift
“Consistently we'll see if you don't have good link spread, fixing it has significant opportunity, typically, 25% plus opportunity, even like a hundred percent opportunity sometimes if your links are really under optimized.”
Ethan Smith Dec 1, 2022 ▶ 1:22:03 The ultimate guide to SEO | Ethan Smith (Graphite)
Dec 1, 2022
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Smith: A few page archetypes cover 90% of all SEO use cases
“There's a few pages that cover probably 90% of all use cases.”
Ethan Smith Dec 1, 2022 ▶ 1:00:02 The ultimate guide to SEO | Ethan Smith (Graphite)
Dec 1, 2022 neutral
Assertion Contradicted
Ethan Smith: No commercial SEO tools exist for topical authority
“We have internal tools for things like what subtopics You need topical authority. There just aren't tools for that. So we basically built some in-house and we use that for when we're building strategies.”
Ethan Smith Dec 1, 2022 ▶ 39:12 The ultimate guide to SEO | Ethan Smith (Graphite)
Dec 1, 2022 positive
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Ethan Smith: AI should assist SEO research workflows, not autonomously generate articles
“Where AI is really useful is actually all the other stuff that I talked about. So if you think about the workflow of creating content and start with, what should I be writing about? What are the subtopics? So like, 300 different keywords. What are the sub them…”
Ethan Smith Dec 1, 2022 ▶ 1:27:32 The ultimate guide to SEO | Ethan Smith (Graphite)
Dec 1, 2022 positive
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Smith: Effective SEO requires integration with core product changes
“To do SEO well, I think it needs to fit into a broader product context and a lot of what's effective in SEO is actually making core product changes.”
Ethan Smith Dec 1, 2022 ▶ 5:52 The ultimate guide to SEO | Ethan Smith (Graphite)
Dec 1, 2022
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Smith: SEO architecture requires a flat link graph, not a hierarchical tree
“You don't want a hierarchical tree structure. You actually want a very flat graph.”
Ethan Smith Dec 1, 2022 ▶ 1:21:30 The ultimate guide to SEO | Ethan Smith (Graphite)
Sep 14, 2025 neutral
Assertion Partly supported
Smith: Only 10 to 12% of Google and ChatGPT results are AI-generated
“It was around 10 to 12% of content in Google search and in ChatGPT are AI generated. 90% or not.”
Ethan Smith Sep 14, 2025 ▶ 54:33 The ultimate guide to AEO: How to get ChatGPT to recommend your product | Ethan Smith (Graphite)
Sep 14, 2025 bullish
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Smith: AI referral traffic surged in January from adoption and clickable UI
“Companies that we work with started in January and it started one because of more adoption, but two is because the answers became a bit more clickable. You have maps, you have shopping carousels, you have clickable cards. So I think the clickability of the ans…”
Ethan Smith Sep 14, 2025 ▶ 7:57 The ultimate guide to AEO: How to get ChatGPT to recommend your product | Ethan Smith (Graphite)
Sep 14, 2025 positive
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Smith: Authentic, transparent Reddit participation beats automated spam for LLM citations
“So the strategy is find a thread that is a part of a citation that you want to show up in, say who you are, say where you work, and then give a useful piece of information, and that works really well. And that sounds simple if you're not in the growth mindset …”
Ethan Smith Sep 14, 2025 ▶ 18:25 The ultimate guide to AEO: How to get ChatGPT to recommend your product | Ethan Smith (Graphite)
Sep 14, 2025 neutral
Assertion Not publicly verifiable
Smith: ChatGPT citation overlap with Google is only 35%, Perplexity is 70%
“We did a study looking at thousands of questions and saw the citation overlap with Google search results was around 35% for ChatGPT and Google. So not that much perplexity was around 70%”
Ethan Smith Sep 14, 2025 ▶ 36:54 The ultimate guide to AEO: How to get ChatGPT to recommend your product | Ethan Smith (Graphite)
Sep 14, 2025 neutral
Assertion Partly supported
Smith: There is more AI-generated content online than human-created content
“We found that there's more AI generated content on the internet than human generated content. So back to the common crawl study, we looked at a 100,000 different URLs over the past five years. And then you can see this curve where AI generated is now higher th…”
Ethan Smith Sep 14, 2025 ▶ 55:05 The ultimate guide to AEO: How to get ChatGPT to recommend your product | Ethan Smith (Graphite)
Sep 14, 2025
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Smith: 1 in 20 landing pages drives roughly 85% of traffic
“One out of 20 landing pages drive roughly 85% of all your traffic. So 19 out of 20 landing pages drive little to no traffic”
Ethan Smith Sep 14, 2025 ▶ 25:49 The ultimate guide to AEO: How to get ChatGPT to recommend your product | Ethan Smith (Graphite)
Sep 14, 2025 neutral
Insight
Smith: Buy the cheapest answer or keyword tracking tool available
“My general suggestion is pick the one that, pick the cheapest one that does what you need. Just like keyword tracking, you can only, you know, there's not a premium version of keyword tracking. You rank number three or you don't. So pick the keyword tracker th…”
Ethan Smith Sep 14, 2025 ▶ 35:37 The ultimate guide to AEO: How to get ChatGPT to recommend your product | Ethan Smith (Graphite)
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