[giaour]

> 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.

[jack_pp]

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]

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]

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