Generative Engine Optimization (GEO): the complete 2026 guide
GEO is how you get cited inside ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, and AI Overviews. The manual: how citation works, what to change, and how to measure it.
Search engine optimization in the AI-search era. Technical, content, link-building — the playbook that still works after the Helpful Content Update.
39 essays tagged seo
GEO is how you get cited inside ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, and AI Overviews. The manual: how citation works, what to change, and how to measure it.
AEO is the engineering side of getting into AI answers: entities, structured data, and question formatting that make your content machine-readable.
Demand generation is not lead generation. The channel mix, content architecture, and measurement model that create qualified demand and survive CFO review.
CRO is the highest-ROI investment most teams underrun. The audit framework, the five levers that move conversion, and how to test when traffic is too low.
83% of B2B buyers research on Reddit before talking to a vendor, and AI engines pull from it constantly. The community-first playbook that earns citations.
llms.txt is a plain-text index that tells AI engines which pages are canonical and what each covers. It takes an hour and costs nothing. How to build one.
Digital PR is the only link-building tactic that survived Google’s spam updates — and it now earns AI citations too. Formats, pitching, and measurement.
The AI content engine we actually run: a human-gated pipeline of research, drafting, and editing agents that makes work good enough to rank and get cited.
Local search has three surfaces to win: the Map Pack, classic organic, and AI answers. The 2026 playbook — fundamentals that still rank, plus the AI layer.