Can an accounting firm repurpose webinars and CPE sessions for AEO?

Answered on camera by , CEO of iShoot.direct · 1:08 · transcript and sources below

Short answer

An accounting firm can repurpose webinars, podcasts, and CPE sessions for AEO as long as they answer tax and accounting questions clients really ask. Get them onto YouTube — behind a registration form they aren't in the pool the engines draw from — then write question timestamps into each description. Each chapter can be cited on its own.

00:00How can I get my accounting firm's existing webinars and podcasts to be cited by AI? 00:41Why aren't my accounting firm's webinars and podcasts showing up in AI citations? 00:58What kinds of tags and metadata will help my accounting firm's webinars get cited by AI?
Transcript

How can I get my firm's existing webinars and podcasts to be cited by AI?

Put them on YouTube and add question-phrased timestamps — provided they answer tax and accounting questions your clients really ask.

You can absolutely repurpose your year-end update webinars, your podcasts, even some of your CPE sessions — as long as they answer tax and accounting questions that your clients are really asking. Firm capabilities and industry credentials are probably not worth your time here. Because the service page gets found when the question is about you — someone typing the firm's name. But with AEO you want to be found when a controller asks what documentation actually survives an R&D credit exam, or when an owner asks how a distribution from an S corp gets taxed differently from a salary. Whatever your clients bring you — those are the questions.

Why aren't my firm's webinars and podcasts showing up in AI citations?

Usually because they sit behind a registration form on your own site, outside the pool the engines draw from.

If your existing media is educational, here's what you could do with it. First, get it onto YouTube. Because behind a registration form on your own site, the session isn't even in the pool that the engines are drawing from.

What kinds of tags and metadata will help my firm's webinars get cited by AI?

Question-phrased timestamps in the video description: they create chapters[1], and each chapter can be cited on its own[2].

Once it's on YouTube, work through the transcript and mark where there are answers. Most of them won't follow an actual question. That's fine — you write the question yourself, and they go into the video description as timestamps. That's what creates the chapters[1]. Chapters get cited on their own[2]. One session can be cited five times for five different questions.

Sources

  1. YouTube Help, Video chapters — how description timestamps create chapters. support.google.com.
  2. Google Search Central, Video structured data and key moments — chapters surface as independently linkable moments in Search. developers.google.com.

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