The JakeGPT Blog

  I recently ran into a former client and discussed how his business was recovering from the pandemic. “I was doing great,” he said, “until about two weeks ago.” If you’re a lawyer, Realtor, dentist or any other type of small to mid-size business and recently started using ChatGPT for your website, you better pay attention to his story. Turns out this former client just saw his website ranking take a nosedive, and all of his blog posts written since February have been de-listed. The culprit? ChatGPT. Or, more appropriately, the “misuse” of ChatGPT. Here’s what he did … 'I thought it was OK …' This attorney was a client of mine for about four or five months back in 2017. A former English major, he dabbled in SEO, paid a pretty penny to have someone design his website, then contracted out my bespoke blogging agency to handle his content. We wrote eight blog posts every month for him. But he was also a self-described “cheapskate,” so we eventually parted ways when he decided to re...

True story: I spent months developing a prompt that prevented ChatGPT from using the words "conclusion" at the end of every blog post. I came close several times, including results that omit that phrase about 60 percent of the time. So, I kept tweaking the prompt just slightly, testing each version repeatedly. And I'd come a little closer, only to fall just a tiny bit short as ChatGPT would either use that exact word or some variation of it, like "in conclusion," or "in summary," or even "to wrap things up." Finally, after about four months of tweaking and rewriting the prompt, I developed one that avoids the usage of that phrase 100 percent of the time – or so I thought. Then, just for grins, I used the prompt again tonight on a random, easy blog topic just before writing this post – and the resulting content produced by ChatGPT 4.0 used the phrase "concluding this guide" in the last paragraph. Of course, the prompt worked the very...