I’ll have to admit: ChatGPT is cool. I don’t think we expected AI to come this far so soon.
But it doesn’t mean every free “ChatGPT prompt” ebook you see on Gumroad is the future. Many of the use cases are simply engagement bait.
So in this post, we’ll look at the actual best use cases of ChatGPT for SEO. I’ll also cover cases where you shouldn’t use ChatGPT.
Editor’s Note
Prefer watching a video instead? Here’s Sam Oh on the best and worst cases of ChatGPT for SEO:
Here are some of our favorite ChatGPT use cases for SEO that we have found at Ahrefs.
1. Construct regex
A regular expression (regex) is a sequence of characters used to find patterns within text. For example, the pattern /b[aeiou]t/ will find words like “bat, bet, bit, bot, but” on a page.
If we want to find keywords phrased as a question in Google Search Console (GSC), we can ask ChatGPT:
What is the regular expression to show matches that contain any of the following words in it: how, what, who, when, where, why, do? These words should be the first word in the match.
And here’s ChatGPT’s answer:
