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AI shopping, explained.

News and practical guides for ecommerce teams.

9 articles

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What AI-referred shoppers need from a product landing page

Review the journey from an AI recommendation to the exact product, variant and available offer. Includes checks for stale links, missing details and substitutions.

4 min read
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How to scope an AI shopping pilot before buying software

Define the shopping task, required evidence, ownership and cost before choosing AI commerce software. Includes a worked pilot brief and vendor demo questions.

4 min read
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How to write ChatGPT ads for a specific buying need

Build ChatGPT ads around a concrete customer need, support each claim on the landing page, and use distinct creative angles. Includes a worked retail example.

3 min read
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How ChatGPT finds information for brand recommendations

Andrew Lissimore explains how learned knowledge, live retrieval and product feeds shape shopping answers, and what a merchant can actually verify.

5 min read
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Make product pages useful to shoppers and AI assistants

A worked product-page example covers visible specifications, valid structured data, provider-specific feeds and tests for variant, price and availability consistency.

4 min read
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Write product comparisons buyers can verify

Build fair comparison pages with dated sources, consistent criteria and explicit tradeoffs. A worked example shows how to answer a buyer's constraint.

3 min read
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A 30-day plan for accurate brand information beyond your website

Audit profiles, correct conflicting facts and pursue useful independent coverage. Separate tasks you control from editorial decisions and AI visibility outcomes.

3 min read
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Build a prompt set that measures real buyer questions

Choose buyer, branded, educational and comparison prompts, preserve a stable measurement set, and avoid inflating results by removing questions where the brand performs poorly.

4 min read
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How to prioritize Lantern Opportunities and verify the result

Use Fix your site, Publish content and Reach out to choose an action, inspect its evidence, review the work and measure what changed after publication.

3 min read

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