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Field notes on AI search, citation engineering, and the new shape of organic visibility.
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FeaturedAuthor byline schema: a 2026 walk-through
A practitioner's guide to author byline schema in 2026: Person properties, sameAs, knowsAbout, knownFor, and JSON-LD you can ship today.
- eeatai-search
Why E-E-A-T matters more for AI search than traditional SEO
E-E-A-T was a ranking heuristic in classic SEO. In AI search, it's closer to a hard filter on which sources get cited at all.
Jun 1, 20265 min read - llms-txtgeo
Building an llms.txt for a SaaS pricing page
An llms.txt file tells AI models exactly what your pricing page means. Here is how to write one that earns citations instead of silence.
May 25, 20266 min read - ai-overviewsgeo
AI Overviews dropped my traffic 40%: a recovery playbook
A diagnosis ladder and concrete fixes for operators whose organic traffic collapsed after Google AI Overviews expanded into their SERPs.
May 24, 20265 min read 
geoai-searchChatGPT vs Perplexity vs Gemini: which AI search cites your brand?
A practitioner breakdown of how ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Gemini differ on citation behavior, attribution style, and freshness — and what it means for GEO.
May 24, 20265 min read- ga4ai-traffic
How to detect AI traffic in GA4: regex, channels, segments
A practitioner's guide to isolating ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Claude referrals in GA4 using regex filters, custom channel groups, and audiences.
May 24, 20265 min read - aeogeo
AEO vs GEO vs SEO: What Marketers Need to Know in 2026
SEO ranks pages, AEO answers questions, GEO earns AI citations. Here is how the three disciplines differ in 2026 — and where to focus first.
May 22, 20265 min read 
researchahrefsBrand Mentions vs Backlinks: What Actually Drives AI Citation (Ahrefs 2025 Study)
Ahrefs studied 75,000 brands across AI Overviews, ChatGPT, and AI Mode. Mentions correlate ~3x stronger with AI citation than backlinks. What that means in practice.
May 22, 20266 min read
llms-txtai-searchWhat Is llms.txt? Complete Guide for AI Search (2026)
A practical guide to llms.txt — the emerging Markdown standard for telling AI assistants which parts of your site to read. What it is, when to ship one, and how it compares to robots.txt.
May 18, 20265 min read- aeogeo
Best AEO/GEO Tools in 2026: 13 Platforms Compared
A field guide to the AEO and GEO tooling market in 2026 — what each platform actually tracks, who they're built for, and how to pick one without overspending.
May 15, 20265 min read 
chatgptgeoHow to Rank on ChatGPT: 7 Tactics That Work in 2026
Seven concrete tactics for getting your brand cited inside ChatGPT answers in 2026 — from Bing indexation to Wikipedia presence to citation-friendly content structure.
May 12, 20265 min read
perplexityai-searchHow to Get Cited by Perplexity AI in 2026
Perplexity runs a three-layer reranker over live web results. Here is how it decides which pages to cite, and the on-page signals that move the needle.
May 10, 20265 min read
