AI Search

The Impact of LLMs on Search and Your Brand

Jordan Avery
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Associate Business Intelligence Principal
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Jan 30, 2025

The digital world is undergoing a significant transformation, as Large Language Models (LLMs) enable new possibilities for search engine interactions.Think of it like this: instead of just matching keywords, it's like having a conversation with a really smart computer program (a large language model or LLM). This program uses advanced techniques to figure out the meaning behind your words and the context of your request to provide more accurate and helpful recommendations.

This is important because the way people search for information online is changing thanks to LLMs. These LLMs are getting better at understanding our intentions, so organizations need to keep up with these changes to provide the best possible user experience.

As a result, companies must adapt their entire SEO practices and digital marketing methods and content creation strategies. Revolutions in search marketing technology must be embraced by companies as they use AI search engine strengths to create market positions against modern competition.

Why Should Businesses Care About LLMs

LLMs are changing how we interact with technology and information. These powerful AI systems are being put into everything from our search engines to our smartphones and are changing how we find what we need. As LLMs get better at understanding natural language and user intent, traditional SEO tactics of keywords and backlinks are becoming obsolete. 

This is resulting in a decline in organic search traffic and brand visibility for those who haven’t adapted. Websites and businesses must now prioritize high quality, informative content that answers user questions directly and comprehensively, as LLMs are designed to deliver the most relevant and helpful results to the user. So creating content tailored for keyword searches are no longer enough. Content must be genuinely valuable and insightful to rank in this new LLM world.

decline in organic search traffic

The great migration to LLMs is happening quickly and without notice. Your devices, such as Google Chrome, Meta Apps, and iPhones, are already integrated with LLMs. Often you’ll see a Google AI-generated response even before paid ads. Millions of dollars in future sales are going to be captured in new ways.

Further's Presence Score: Your Solution for LLM Visibility

The first step in preparing for the great migration is to understand how your brand is perceived by the various LLMs compared to the other brands in your industry. 

What is a Presence Score?

Further’s Presence Score tool and service is a proprietary creation that is designed to gauge brand exposure across AI search results. Further's proprietary tool analyzes relevance, accuracy, and sentiment, as well as prominence, to generate practical insights for brands.

Relevance: Is your brand appearing in response to relevant prompts?

Is your brand appearing in response to relevant AI prompts?

Prominence: How noticeable is your brand among competitors?

How noticeable is your brand among competitors in AI Search?

Cross-Products: How does your brand compare to the industry across your product categories?

Is the information in AI search about your brand correct?

Sentiment: Is the AI portraying your brand positively?

Is the AI portraying your brand positively?

Benefits of Presence Score

By utilizing the Presence Score platform, brands can have:

  • Enhanced Brand Visibility: The Presence Score platform helps view how your brand performs in terms of ranking and authority. How are you performing across products? Where is your score high in unexpected places (e.g., more general prompts) vs where is your score low in unexpected places (e.g., prompts you expect to have high visibility within)? 
  • Data-Driven Insights: The Presence Score platform allows you to dig into the prompts and responses across multiple LLMs (e.g., ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity) and across product categories. With these insights, you can form hypotheses for your Test & Learn program to improve your score over time.  With Gartner predicting LLMs contributing to a 50% decrease in search traffic, it is imperative that you use these data-driven insights to improve your LLM presence to maintain your visibility with customers. 
  • Improved Search Optimization: Systems that precisely match AI algorithm requirements generate better search outcomes through the creation of high-quality content.
  • Increased Brand Awareness: When LLMs are used by broader target consumer groups, brands can build deeper connections that lead to increased audience engagement. The created content targets broad customer demographics so businesses can extend their reach to worldwide markets.
  • Competitive Advantage: The AI search space presents numerous opportunities for competitors to emerge. Through LLM strategic approaches, brands can create everyday consumer-oriented content, placing them ahead of their competitors due to the growing demand for high-quality content.

How Presence Score Helps

Presence Score assists brands in optimizing their content strategy through the following methods.

  • Content Relevance & Accuracy: Strong analytics enable brands to locate critical areas in their content strategies that are having a damaging impact on their authority. Consumer engagement reaches higher levels when content matches what audiences want to see.
  • Competitive Analysis: World-class benchmarking enables brands to create strategies that maintain their position alongside industry leaders. Through these strategies, businesses can both improve their relevance and enhance their online visibility.
  • Authority Building: Brand credibility, combined with recognition, will extend a brand's presence throughout AI search platforms. Companies that establish a conversational strategy don't need to spend money on keyword investments. The conversational strategy can also increase traffic on their websites.
  • Hypothesis Building: This platform provides the foundations required to build a plan of action to optimize your site for LLMs. Paired with an effective Test & Learn strategy, you can begin to make content updates & additions to grow your Presence Score.

Optimize Your Valuable Content to Boost Brand Visibility

Businesses need strategic readjustments to accommodate language models as they transform search behavior. The rise of LLMs demands ongoing investment in maintaining a strong online presence. Success with current AI-powered search requires businesses to create top-tier content and optimize this content for conversational search through AI tools like Further's Presence Score.

The digital success of brands in this maturing market depends upon strategic methods that align with the continuous progression of LLM technology capabilities. Is your brand ready for the AI revolution? 

Presence Score Gated Webinar

This gated webinar presents Further's Presence Score, a proprietary tool that analyzes your brand's presence across major LLMs like ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Google's Gemini.  Learn how to leverage these insights to enhance your brand's positioning, improve sentiment, and outperform competitors in AI-driven conversations.

Call our team now to experience the impact of Further's Presence Score on driving greater visibility and business success for your brand.

Helpful Tips and Tricks

Natural Language Approach (NLP)

Current LLM technology shows exceptional accuracy when handling human language communication. The algorithms used by LLMs outshine traditional search engines, because these models understand subtle linguistic features, including synonyms, together with context and user search goals. 

The transformation of search queries allows users to express themselves more naturally, while their search data connects to specific intents, making results more helpful. Online users demand content that mirrors their natural style while avoiding stiff keyword implementation, which makes natural language processing essential for brands. Businesses must prioritize content that is readable and relevant for users, as this alignment will improve their online search experience.

Semantic Search

Semantic search performed by LLMs proceeds by analyzing word meaning and keyword correspondence. Through textual analysis of relationship patterns along with contextual term usage, LLMs can show users search results that properly represent their original search meaning. 

Semantically optimal search requires brands to use topic clustering and create content networks that deliver extensive coverage of related subjects. For enhanced LLM content interpretation and ranking performance, you should deploy structured data and schema markup on your platforms.

Conversational Search

Content consumers now prefer engaging with search engines through AI aids as well as voice search options. Users now provide complete, full-sentence inquiries that need immediate, applicable solutions. Through their context-sensitive feedback, LLMs deliver human-like engagement experiences that help users. 

Companies need to modify their content to align with this new trend through FAQs, how-to guides, and conversational blog posts written to specifically answer typical user inquiries. The structure of question-and-answer content boosts visibility for results in conversational search outputs.

Personalized Results

The built-in customization of LLMs supports adjusted search outcomes through user preference amalgamation of previous data activity and location details. To meet contemporary personalization standards, brands need to develop specialized content targeted at various audience segments. When brands execute data analysis to understand their customers better, they can develop targeted experiences that optimize performance on AI-based search systems.

Impact on Search Rankings

Internet search ranking criteria change because of the technological progress in LLM systems. The three key factors that determine search engine placement are content quality, applicability, and user engagement metrics. Search engine visibility grows after brands publish authoritative, high-value content that focuses on improving user satisfaction. Search engine optimization also demands a combination of page speed optimization with mobile friendliness, alongside site structure maintenance.

The modern reality of content creation requires teams to direct their efforts toward both meeting algorithm-based digital standards and providing valuable, informative content with high user engagement.

Transforming Your Brand Strategy for LLMs

Content is King (Still)

High-quality content stands as the vital foundation that leads to digital marketing success during the AI era. Business owners need to provide value-driven, research-backed, informative content, as LLMs now have superior content assessment capabilities. 

Organizing content to serve real user needs, instead of excessively using keywords, will ensure AI algorithms identify your information more naturally. Consistency in creating original and insightful content that extends across all your platforms enables brand authority development.

Optimize for Conversational Search

Brands should organize their content to deliver straightforward, easy-to-understand answers to maximize opportunities from the rise of organic search queries. When a knowledge hub contains in-depth guides along with step-by-step tutorials and comprehensive FAQs, it builds conversational search result visibility. 

Creating content segments that utilize ordinary speech communication patterns inside natural expressions of long-tail search keywords improves the chances users will discover products and participate with content.

Leverage Entities and Topics

Through their capabilities, LLMs process the interconnections between people, things and places. By implementing structured data along with schema markup, brands enhance their online visibility by making their content contextually clear. Broader coverage and insightful relations between relevant content help build professional visibility while improving search engine rankings.

Essence of Technical SEO Strategy

The base structure of a website acts as a critical determinant for search engine optimization. Search engines easily handle content information and execute efficient crawling operations when a site offers fast load times coupled with mobile responsiveness and proper website architecture structure. A site's visibility in AI-powered search can be improved through schema markup implementation alongside logical URL construction and meta tag optimization.

Embrace AI Tools

Brands can create customized opportunities by using AI-powered applications that perform content adjustment tasks alongside keyword discovery and website optimization operations. The Presence Score from Further lets brands track their visibility status in AI search results, which reveals practical improvement opportunities through data analysis.

Jordan Avery
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Associate Business Intelligence Principal

Jordan has 10 years of experience in data analytics, business intelligence, and project management. He loves finding new ways to enable businesses to use their data and insights to create an obtainable action plan and measure results. He has supported partners across all industries including healthcare, hospitality, media, consumer goods, and higher education.

Prior to his time at Further, Jordan led a team through the creation, rollout, and support of a joint pricing and inventory management system for seven major cruise lines. Jordan is located in Atlanta, GA where he spends his time chasing his 18-month-old around or out playing disc golf and board games with friends.

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