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Community and UGC Seeding

Entry #537 / 700 · Chapter 11 · 11.4 The four foundations and how to measure GEO · Read in Chinese →
In one sentence

Participating authentically in the communities these systems weight most heavily, above all the large discussion forums that have licensed their content directly to model providers.

Analogy Mental model

Buyers once trusted television advertising and now trust strangers on a recommendation forum. The models have learned the same instinct: a brand's own site is marketing, a thread of people arguing about it is evidence.

In practice What you actually do

Find the subreddits and forums where your buyers already ask for recommendations. Locate existing threads that rank well and are still open, then answer with a detailed comparison that names the trade-offs honestly. Identify yourself plainly if you are the founder. Encourage satisfied customers to describe their own workflow.

Where people get burned Pitfalls

A batch of new accounts posting identical praise is caught quickly by moderators, and the consequence is worse than removal: a pinned warning about your brand becomes the most quotable text about you on the internet.

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