Search Dominance
SEO, GEO and AEO: the three disciplines that decide whether your site is found in Google, cited by ChatGPT, and read aloud by voice assistants.
Search has fragmented. The same query lands in ten blue links, an AI Overview, a ChatGPT citation list, a Perplexity card, and a voice assistant answer, and each surface rewards different signals. Posts in this category document the field-tested methods we run on client engagements: technical SEO and Core Web Vitals, Generative Engine Optimization for AI assistants (citable passages, llms.txt, entity signals), Answer Engine Optimization for featured snippets and voice, and the schema graph that ties them together. Every article includes the production code or template we run on this very site, so you can verify the technique before you adopt it.
Posts in this category
- GEOSearch Dominance
GEO for B2B: What Changes When a Committee Does the Buying
In B2B the search volume is tiny and the deal is large, so the page that earns the citation is almost never your blog. Here is what to build instead.
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We Checked 63 AI Visibility Agencies. Half Publish llms.txt.
We measured robots.txt, llms.txt and schema on the 63 sites that rank for GEO and AEO agency queries. A third of those llms.txt files fail the spec.
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How Much Does Generative Engine Optimization Cost? Ranges for 2026
Generative engine optimization cost: published ranges from four sources, what actually moves your quote, and the question nobody asks before signing.
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Google's AI Search Rules: The Opt-Out and What You Can Stop Doing
Google documented an opt-out control, an impressions report, and a list of things you do not need to do. What each one actually means for your site.
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Can ChatGPT Read Your Website? Four Checks That Decide It
Four things decide whether ChatGPT can read your website: crawler access, rendering, structure and grounding. How to check each, in the order that matters.
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AI Search Updates: What Changed in Q2 2026 and What It Means for You
AI Overviews now hit half of searches and ChatGPT added ads. What changed in AI search this quarter, and the three moves that keep your brand cited.
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How to Choose a Generative Engine Optimization (GEO) Agency
A buyer's guide to hiring a GEO agency: what one actually does, five things to verify, and the red flags that mean it is an SEO agency in disguise.
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How to Do Generative Engine Optimization: A Step-by-Step Guide
How to do generative engine optimization in four steps: make pages quotable, ship schema and llms.txt, let AI crawlers in, then measure your citation rate.
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llms.txt Examples and a Copy-Ready Template (With a Real File)
See a real, annotated llms.txt file, then copy a fill-in-the-blanks template and validate it. The examples come from the exact file we serve on this site.
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Best Generative Engine Optimization Tools (2026)
Judge generative engine optimization tools by one thing: do they measure whether AI assistants cite you. An agency-neutral framework, and when to skip them.
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What Is Answer Engine Optimization (AEO)? The 2026 Playbook
Answer Engine Optimization (AEO) wins the direct-answer slots: snippets, AI Overviews, People Also Ask. Here's the 2026 playbook to do it on your own site.
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How to Optimize for AI Search: A 7-Step 2026 Playbook
How to optimize for AI search in seven steps: question-shaped queries, citable passages, llms.txt, schema, a consistent entity, mentions and tracking.
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How to Get Cited by ChatGPT in 2026: A Practitioner's Playbook
A 30-day sprint to get cited by ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude and Google AI Overviews, with the 20-prompt panel and answer-capsule templates we run here.
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SEO vs GEO vs AEO: What's the Difference and Why It Matters in 2026
SEO, GEO and AEO are three disciplines for three search surfaces. They share four levers and diverge at the end. How to ship all three as one practice.
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What Is Generative Engine Optimization? 2026 Guide + Playbook
What is generative engine optimization? GEO makes AI assistants cite your site. The 4 levers, a ready checklist, and the stack you can ship in a week.
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What Is llms.txt? The Spec, a Real Example + 20-Min Setup
What is llms.txt? The official spec annotated in plain English, a copy-ready production example, and a 20-minute setup guide for ChatGPT and Perplexity.
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