There is a fine line between wording things for SEO and wording things for actual humans. Finding new descriptive words that fit what you have is good, but you still want it to feel like a person wrote it. I don’t knock folks that use AI but at the end of the day its a TOOL, not something to do the job for you with minimal input.
That last sentence isn’t aimed at anyone, but I spend more time on my YT channel than I do here on Z. People use AI over there to write scripts for their videos, they use assets made by AI in videos and thumbnails, they even have AI voices instead of their own in their videos and have AI music in the background. They crank out a shorts/videos in record time but then they cry about being “shadowbanned with 0 views”. They don’t take responsibility for the fact that the content they made isn’t even for a human as the reason why they have no views. There’s no soul, they made their ENTIRE video from start to finish SPECIFICALLY for SEO or the “algorithm”. But you gotta replace “algorithm” with “audience”. YT is built to show viewers more of what they are already watching and people that go SEO crazy 9 times out of 10 miss the mark because humans don’t care about SEO. I personally refuse to use AI on my YT channel but, I do see how valuable of a tool it can be.
AI is a great tool, to help with bits and pieces and odds and ends. You could ask it “I want to make a bunny design, what are some holidays/occasions I could market that design to” so before you even start the design you already have a couple things in mind to aid in the process. You could say “I use ‘bunny’ a lot in the title/desc/tags, what are some other related words” it will probably spit out “Rabbit”, so you could use bunny in title and perhaps have rabbit somewhere in the description, then use “bunny rabbit” as a tag.
The big thing for me and my YT brain is to have a strategy. I would absolutely make my titles for things on Z handwritten, use AI to find a new word or two if you’re drawing blanks its fine. For descriptions, fewer people read those compared to titles BUT some do scroll down to there and see it. I would have the AI write 2-3 sentences (preferably about the design not the product) and then read back what it says out loud to yourself. If it sounds robotic, soulless or has bad flow, rewrite it in your own wording. Tags are meant to be SEO (they are at the VERY bottom of product pages, 90% of customers don’t scroll that far). You could do a “double down” and repeat a couple words from title/description or use AI and tell it to give you “a mix of longtail and short tail keywords” each tag can be 5 words long, we get 10 tags, so that’s potentially 50 words. But you should make sure longtail tags aren’t just random words. “Baby religion easter Christian bunny” doesn’t read well for an Easter themed thing aimed at newborns but “Christian easter bunny for Baby” reads a lot better. Short tail would be something like “Easter holiday”, “Christian Holiday”, anything with 3+ words I *think* is considered “longtail”.
I hope this helps! I didn’t anticipate writing paragraphs, but I suppose the caffeine is flowinggg this morning LOL. Even though my time is split 90% YT and 10% Z these days I find that there is a ton of things that I learn or stuff that happens on YT that I can pivot and apply over here at Z. Especially on the AI front. At the end of the day, anything you do with AI needs to still have that human warm tone to it. You will never get to ask AI a thing and have the 1st response it gives you be the exact thing you want; it will always need tweaks to get that warmth back in, it could take 2,3,4- or 10 more tries. I find it hard to draw a line for myself here on Z for using AI, lots of people do photography or draw/paint and upload it here. Human made designs with feelings and emotion, I feel like I taint my designs or water them down if I heavily use AI BUT that is just my personal feeling since I see how anti-AI Youtube viewers are in my channel niche.
