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Practical SEO, AEO and GEO guides for beginners and professionals: how Google and AI assistants find, understand and cite your site, how to buy and measure backlinks, and how to produce AI-assisted content without losing quality.
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10 Common GEO and AEO Myths and Mistakes (and What to Do Instead)
Does schema guarantee citation? Does llms.txt work? Is SEO dead? 10 GEO and AEO myths debunked with official sources and studies, and what to do instead.
GEO, AEO and SEO Checklist: 40 Items to Review Your Site
A 40-item checklist in five blocks, with the reason behind each item, to review your site for Google and for AI. Includes a short 10-item version.
GEO Audit Step by Step: From Diagnosis to Action Plan
Run a GEO audit in six blocks: crawlers, content, entity, authority, off-site presence and measurement. Includes a spreadsheet, priorities and a report.
GEO for Healthcare and Law Firms (YMYL): Become a Trusted Source
In health and law, AI and professional rules demand extra care. Publish citable, signed, compliant content without promising results (Brazil as the example).
GEO for SaaS and B2B: Get Into AI 'Best Tools' Lists
How your SaaS gets into AI answers for 'best tools': comparison pages, integrations, public pricing, reviews and third-party mentions, and how to measure.
GEO for Ecommerce: Get Recommended in AI Shopping Answers
How to show up when someone asks AI which product to buy: product data, schema, feeds, real reviews and buying guides, in practical steps for online stores.
GEO for Local Businesses: Get Recommended by AI in Your City
See how a local business improves its odds of being recommended by AI: business profile, reviews, service pages, FAQ, mentions and prompts to test.
Zero-Click Searches and AI Overviews: Why Clicks Fall and What to Do
Studies show fewer clicks when an AI Overview appears, while Google says total clicks are stable. See what the data proves, what it does not and how to act.
How to Write an FAQ That AI Cites and Google Understands
Google's FAQ rich result is gone in 2026, but a well-written FAQ is still useful. Learn to write questions and answers that people and AI can cite.
Organization and Person Schema with sameAs: Build Your Entity
Learn to mark up Organization, Person and WebSite in JSON-LD and use sameAs and @id to connect profiles and help search engines and AI know who you are.
How AI Searches for Information: RAG, Grounding and SEO Impact
RAG and grounding explain how AI checks the web before answering. Learn the difference between training and search, query fan-out and what changes in your SEO.
Reddit, YouTube and Quora in AI Answers: Get Cited Without Spam
Reddit and YouTube show up constantly in AI answers. See why, how a brand can take part without spam, and which risks to avoid to earn a mention.
Original Research and Proprietary Data: Become a Cited Source
Data only you can publish earns citations from journalists, sites and AI. Learn how to run research on no budget, with a clear method, and publish it to get cited.
E-E-A-T in the AI Era: Authorship, Experience and Trust
E-E-A-T is not a direct ranking factor, but it guides what Google calls trustworthy content. See which authorship and trust signals to show on your pages.
How to Structure Content That LLMs Can Cite
Direct answers, question headings, complete definitions, tables and examples: learn how to structure every passage so AI and people can understand and cite it.
llms.txt: Is It Worth Creating? What We Know in 2026
llms.txt is a file that lists pages for AI agents. Google says it ignores it, and studies find no link to citations. See when it is still worth creating.
robots.txt and AI Crawlers: GPTBot, OAI-SearchBot and ClaudeBot
See the official user agents from OpenAI, Anthropic, Perplexity and Google, the difference between training, search and user actions, and ready-to-use robots.txt examples.
AI Citation Tracking Tools: What to Evaluate Before You Buy
Before paying for an AI citation tracking tool, check engine coverage, sampling, cost and export. Here are the criteria and a pilot you can run in 2 to 4 weeks.
Measuring AI Visibility: Metrics, Share of Voice and Attribution
Mention rate, citation rate, share of voice and accuracy: formulas, margin of error and how to tie AI visibility to traffic in GA4 and Search Console.
Prompts to Test Your Brand's Visibility in AI Search
A prompt bank by funnel stage, persona and city, with rules for repeating, logging and knowing how many answers you need before drawing conclusions.
How to Know If ChatGPT and Gemini Recommend Your Brand
A manual test in one afternoon: 10 questions, 3 repeats and a spreadsheet show whether ChatGPT and Gemini mention your brand, and what the result does not prove.
Bing Webmaster Tools and IndexNow: Why They Matter for AI Search
Bing now reports citations in Copilot's AI answers and recommends IndexNow to keep content current. See what is documented and how to set both up.
How to Get Cited in Perplexity: Sources, Citations and Optimization
Perplexity searches the web for every question and cites its sources. See what the company documents about PerplexityBot, how to allow access and how to measure.
How to Show Up in ChatGPT: What Actually Works
ChatGPT cites sites when it searches the web and remembers brands mentioned in many places. Here is the honest step-by-step for brands and sites, no promises.
How People Search with AI: Long Prompts, Questions and Decisions
With AI, people type full questions with context and keep the conversation going until they decide. See what the data says and what it means for your content.
SEO vs AEO vs GEO: What's the Difference and Where to Start
SEO aims to rank, AEO aims to be the direct answer and GEO aims to be cited by AI. See the difference in practice, what the three share and where to begin.
Core Web Vitals Explained: LCP, INP and CLS Made Simple
Core Web Vitals measure page speed, responsiveness and visual stability. See the official thresholds, how to measure them and what to fix first, with minimal jargon.
SEO, AEO and GEO Glossary: 100+ Terms Explained
An A-Z glossary of 100+ SEO, AEO, GEO, backlink and AI search terms, each with a plain definition, a technical note and a link to the post that goes deeper.
Ecommerce SEO: Categories, Product Pages and Content That Sells
How to structure categories, product pages, filters and supporting content so your online store gets found on Google without wasting crawl resources.
How Long Does SEO Take to Work? A Realistic Timeline
Google gives no deadline, but there is a practical benchmark: signals in weeks, consistent results in 6 to 12 months. See what speeds SEO up and what slows it down.