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
Published ranges from four sources dated November 2025 to July 2026, what actually moves your quote, and the question nobody asks: what should this be saving you?
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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 use your site: crawler access, rendering, structure and grounding. Here is how to check each one, 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 roughly half of searches and ChatGPT added ads. Here is what changed in AI search this quarter, and the three moves that keep your brand visible and 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, the questions to ask, 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
Generative engine optimization is a four-step loop: make pages quotable, ship schema and llms.txt, let AI crawlers in, then measure citation rate. Here is the runbook we use.
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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): A Criteria-First Guide
Choosing generative engine optimization tools? Judge them by one thing: do they measure whether AI assistants cite you. An agency-neutral framework, plus when you don't need a tool yet.
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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: target question-shaped queries, write citable passages, ship llms.txt, add schema, align your entity, earn mentions, and track citations.
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How to Get Cited by ChatGPT in 2026: A Practitioner's Playbook
A 30-day operational sprint to get cited by ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude, and Google AI Overviews, with the 20-prompt panel and answer-capsule templates we run live on this page.
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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 polish layer. Here's how to ship all three as one practice.
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What Is Generative Engine Optimization? 2026 Guide + Playbook
Generative engine optimization (GEO) makes AI assistants cite your site. What GEO is, the 4 levers, a ready-to-use checklist, and the minimum viable stack you can ship in a week.
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What Is llms.txt? The Spec, a Real Example + 20-Min Setup
llms.txt explained: the official spec (Jeremy Howard) annotated in plain English, a copy-ready production example, and a 20-minute setup guide for ChatGPT and Perplexity.
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