Anyone else seeing better CTR from AI-written meta descriptions lately?

[mike_donovan]

Been testing this on a few niche sites over the last couple weeks and I’m seeing some interesting stuff.

For one affiliate site in the home improvement space, I rewrote meta titles/descriptions on about 40 pages using a mix of manual tweaks + AI help. Nothing crazy, just making them more specific and a bit more “clickable” without sounding spammy.

Results so far:
– impressions stayed pretty flat
– average CTR moved up on a bunch of pages
– a few pages that were stuck on page 2 got a little more traction after the snippet change

Not saying it’s some magic bullet, but it does look like Google is picking up on the better phrasing in some cases. I’m also noticing that shorter, more direct descriptions seem to perform better than the fluffy AI stuff.

I’ve been using a combo of:
– GSC for CTR tracking
– ChatGPT for quick snippet variants
– manual edits for anything money page related

Curious if anyone else is seeing similar results, or if your AI-generated snippets are getting ignored. Also wondering if anyone has a good workflow for testing titles at scale without messing up pages that already convert well.

Would be good to hear what’s actually working right now, especially for affiliate sites.

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