Beyond the Book Podcast: Answer Engine Optimization Workshop

Here’s May’s Monthly Sidekick Plus workshop. It’s all about Answer Engine Optimization, or how you can have readers discover your books when chatting with LLMs like ChatGPT, Claude, and more.

This one is action-packed with insights and takeaways.

* The free tool (for now) trakkr.ai can help you see what books LLMs are recommending based on prompts

* Queries to LLMs are 23 words on average v.s. 4 words for search engines

* LLMs disproportionately recommend best-selling books, even when asked to recommend lesser-known titles 😬

* Answer Engines are already a place readers discover books, and likely are going to continue to grow, but it doesn’t seem to be a great channel for new authors, but rathe ...