How to Add Real Experience to AI Content (Without Losing Your Rankings)
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Google's 2024 algorithm updates confirmed what many SEO professionals suspected: generic AI content is getting buried. The problem isn't that you're using AI—it's that you're using it wrong.
Most brands treat AI writing tools like content vending machines. Plug in a topic, get an article. But here's the catch: if your competitor can generate the same article with the same prompt, you've just created what we call "commodity content"—technically accurate but strategically worthless.
The solution isn't to abandon AI. It's to ground your AI content in something competitors can't replicate: your team's real-world experience.
Why Google Added "Experience" to E-A-T
In late 2022, Google updated its quality guidelines from E-A-T to E-E-A-T, adding "Experience" as the first criterion. This wasn't arbitrary—it was a direct response to the flood of AI-generated content that read like Wikipedia summaries.
Here's the critical distinction:
Expertise = knowing that a parachute works (theoretical knowledge)
Experience = knowing how it feels to jump out of a plane (practical application)
AI models are trained on publicly available text, which means they have plenty of expertise but zero experience. They've never jumped out of a plane, migrated a database, or closed a difficult sale. When you publish purely AI-generated content, Google sees right through it.
The "Hidden Gems" update made this even clearer by prioritizing Reddit threads, forum discussions, and personal blogs—places where real people share real experiences, even if the writing isn't polished.
The core insight: Content that could have been written by anyone has no E-E-A-T value. True differentiation comes from the proprietary data and stories that only your brand possesses.
Why Generic AI Content Fails
Most marketers use AI to produce what we call commodity content—articles that answer a query correctly but offer nothing unique. This content is vulnerable to being replaced by Google's AI Overviews or outranked by competitors with better stories.
Think about the last time you searched for "how to improve customer retention." You probably got 50 articles with the exact same advice: personalize emails, offer loyalty programs, improve customer service. All correct. All useless.
Now imagine one article that opens with: "Last quarter, we reduced churn by 23% by doing something counterintuitive—we stopped sending re-engagement emails to dormant users. Here's why it worked..."
That's the difference between generic AI and grounded AI. One regurgitates best practices. The other shares battle-tested insights that only come from direct experience.
By relying on generic prompts, you risk creating content that checks Google's "helpful" box but fails the "trustworthy" test because it lacks the unique perspective that builds authority.
How Deca Adds Experience to AI Drafts
Deca doesn't solve the E-E-A-T problem by being a better writer—it solves it by being a better researcher of your own knowledge. Through its Brain feature (a memory system that stores and retrieves your proprietary documents), Deca lets you inject real experience before a single word is written.
The 3-Step Process
Step 1: Capture the Experience Instead of prompting AI to "write about cloud migration," you upload a transcript of an interview with your Lead Engineer or a PDF of a recent client case study to Deca's Brain. This becomes your source material.
Step 2: Ground the Prompt Now you instruct Deca: "Write a blog post about cloud migration challenges using the specific examples from the uploaded case study." Deca retrieves the relevant details and weaves them into the article.
Step 3: Verify the Output Deca cites the internal document as its source, so you can verify that it's pulling from your actual experience, not generic training data.
Why This Works for SEO
When Google crawls this content, it sees unique details, specific numbers, and "in-the-trenches" insights that don't exist anywhere else on the web. This signals high E-E-A-T because it proves you have access to first-hand knowledge.
For example, instead of writing "Cloud migration can be challenging," your content says: "When we migrated TechCorp's infrastructure to AWS, we discovered that 40% of their legacy APIs had undocumented dependencies—a problem that standard migration tools completely missed."
That's citation-ready content. That's E-E-A-T.
The Right Way to Use AI and Humans Together
The most effective content strategy for 2025 isn't "AI vs. humans"—it's AI and humans playing distinct roles.
What AI Does Best
Structures the argument logically
Ensures grammatical precision and readability
Formats content with tables, bullets, and subheadings
Checks facts against your provided documents
What Humans Do Best
Provides the seed content (interviews, data, contrarian opinions)
Reviews tone to match your brand voice
Adds emotional resonance and storytelling nuance
Identifies which internal stories are worth sharing
This hybrid approach lets you scale content production without sacrificing the experiential depth that Google rewards. AI handles structure and authoritativeness; humans supply the experience and expertise that algorithms can't invent.
Next Steps
Here's what to do tomorrow:
Audit your recent content. Ask: "Could a competitor write this exact article using ChatGPT?" If yes, your E-E-A-T is low.
Record one expert interview. Talk to someone on your team who has real-world experience with your topic. Transcribe it.
Upload it to Deca's Brain. Use it as source material for your next article. Compare the output to what you'd get from a generic prompt.
The brands winning in AI search aren't the ones generating the most content—they're the ones grounding their content in experiences competitors can't replicate.
FAQs
How does Deca help with the "Experience" part of E-E-A-T?
Deca's Brain feature lets you upload internal documents like interview transcripts, case studies, and data reports. When you write content, Deca uses these files as primary source material, effectively injecting your real-world experience into the AI draft instead of relying on generic training data.
What's the best way to capture "Experience" for AI?
Record interviews with your subject matter experts (SMEs). Ask them about specific projects, failures, and lessons learned. Transcribe these conversations and upload them to Deca. This raw data is the purest form of experience you can feed to an AI system.
Can AI content ever have high E-E-A-T?
Yes, but only if it's grounded in original, first-hand information. Generic AI content generated solely from training data rarely meets the "Experience" criteria. The key is using AI to structure and scale content that's anchored in your proprietary knowledge.
Does Google penalize AI content?
No. Google doesn't penalize content because it's AI-generated. It penalizes low-quality, unhelpful, or spammy content. AI content that demonstrates E-E-A-T—experience, expertise, authoritativeness, and trustworthiness—is perfectly acceptable.
How do I know if my content has enough E-E-A-T?
Ask yourself: "Could a competitor write this exact same article using a generic ChatGPT prompt?" If yes, you need more unique data and stories. Look for specific numbers, named examples, and insights that only your team would know.
What is the "Hidden Gems" update?
It's a Google algorithm update designed to surface authentic human stories from forums, Reddit, and personal blogs. The update counters the flood of generic SEO content by prioritizing posts that offer genuine lived experience, even if they're less polished than professional articles.
References
Google Search's Helpful Content System and AI | Google Search Central
Creating Helpful, Reliable, People-First Content | Google Search Central
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