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Jun 26

AI Reputation Management: Fix What AI Says

AI reputation management is finding and correcting what ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, and Gemini get wrong about your brand. Here is how to run it.

AI Visibility·9 min read
Jun 25

What Is AEO Marketing and How to Do It in 2026

AEO marketing optimizes your content so answer engines return your brand as the answer. Here is what it means, how it differs from SEO, and how to do it.

Strategy·10 min read
Jun 25

What Is an Answer Engine? And How to Win One

An answer engine returns one synthesized answer instead of ten links. Here is what answer engines are, why they matter, and how to win one.

Strategy·10 min read
Jun 24

Is SEO Dead in 2026? What the Data Actually Says

Is SEO dead in 2026? No, but the traffic version of it is. Here is what the data shows and how to split effort between SEO and AI search.

Strategy·10 min read
Jun 24

What Is GEO Marketing and How Do You Do It?

GEO marketing is optimizing your brand to get cited in AI search, not geofencing. Here is what it means and how to actually do it.

Strategy·10 min read
Jun 23

What Is LLM Visibility and How to Improve It

LLM visibility is whether ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini name your brand in answers. Here is what drives it and a six-step playbook to improve it.

AI Visibility·10 min read
Jun 22

What Is Entity SEO and Why AI Search Needs It

Entity SEO teaches engines what your brand is, not just which keywords you target. Here is how it works and why it now decides your AI citations.

Technical GEO·10 min read
Jun 21

How to Build an AI Content Strategy That Gets Cited

An AI content strategy gets your content cited by ChatGPT, Perplexity, and AI Overviews, not just ranked. Here is how to build one in 2026.

Strategy·11 min read
Jun 21

GEO Optimization: How to Get Cited by AI

GEO optimization gets your brand cited by ChatGPT, Perplexity, and AI Overviews, not just ranked. Here is what it is and how to do it in 2026.

Technical Guides·11 min read
Jun 18

What Is a GEO Audit? The 7-Point Checklist

A GEO audit checks whether AI engines can crawl, extract, and cite your pages. Here is the 7-point checklist we use to find what blocks your brand.

Technical Guides·11 min read
Jun 16

LLM Optimization: How to Get Cited by AI

LLM optimization is how you get your brand cited inside AI answers. Here are the five levers that move citations and the steps to run them.

Technical Guides·11 min read
Jun 14

AI Search Optimization: How to Get Found by AI

AI search optimization is how you get cited by ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, and Google AI. Here is the diagnostic and the six-step fix.

Technical Guides·10 min read
Jun 14

How to Rank in AI Overviews in 2026

How to rank in AI Overviews in 2026: top-10 rankings no longer guarantee a citation. Here are the six steps that get your pages cited.

Technical Guides·9 min read
Jun 12

AI Content Optimization: How to Get Cited

AI content optimization is the work of rewriting pages so an AI engine can lift a clean answer. Here is the practitioner playbook for getting cited.

Technical Guides·10 min read
Jun 11

LLM SEO: What It Is and How to Do It in 2026

LLM SEO is how you get your brand cited inside AI answers. Here is what it means and the four steps to actually do it in 2026.

Technical Guides·10 min read
Jun 3

Does Content Structure Affect AI Citations?

New research changed only a page's structure, not its words, and AI citations rose 17.3% across six engines. Here is what to restructure first.

Research·9 min read
May 31

Do B2B Buyers Really Start Their Search in ChatGPT?

G2's Summer 2026 data shows 50% of B2B buyers now start their search in an AI chatbot, and 74% use ChatGPT. Here is what that means for AEO.

Research·10 min read
May 31

How Many Searches Hide Behind One AI Prompt?

Nectiv analyzed ~9,000 prompts: Google AI runs about 9 hidden searches per query, almost 12 for software. Here is how to optimize for query fan-out.

Technical Guides·10 min read
May 30

84% of B2B CMOs Now Vet Vendors With AI Before Sales

Wynter surveyed 110 CMOs at $50M+ ARR companies. AI-driven vendor discovery jumped from 24% in 2025 to 84% in 2026. Here is what changes for B2B AEO.

Research·10 min read
May 20

How to Earn a Wikipedia Page for AI Citations

Wikipedia powers 47.9% of ChatGPT's top citations. Most B2B SaaS brands have no page. Here is the notability playbook that actually works.

Practical GEO·9 min read
May 18

AI Citation Concentration Is Worse Than PageRank

A new audit of 680M AI citations found 15 domains capture 68% of all references, and Wikipedia owns 47.9% of ChatGPT top-10 sources.

Research·9 min read
May 12

How to Optimize for AI Retrieval, Not Just Rankings

Google's TurboQuant paper may quietly expand the AI retrieval pool past the top 30. Top-10 rankings won't predict citations. Here's what to fix now.

Technical Guides·10 min read

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