Notes on getting cited.
How brands earn a place in the answers AI engines give — and how to measure, fix and prove it.
Best AEO & GEO tools in 2026: 7 AI visibility platforms compared
An honest, no-hype look at Profound, Otterly, Peec, Scrunch, Semrush, Frase and Stellarcast — matched to your stage, budget and bottleneck.
Profound alternatives: 6 AI visibility tools compared
Six credible alternatives to Profound, grouped by the reason you'd switch — price, depth, remediation or technical fit.
Stellarcast vs Profound: which AI visibility platform fits you?
Analytics depth versus a closed remediation loop. Where each wins, side by side — including where Profound is the better call.
How to rank in ChatGPT: a practical guide to getting named
There's no ranking list in ChatGPT — you're named or you're not. How the model decides, and a step-by-step way to become the answer.
Schema markup for AEO: which structured data helps AI cite you
The schema types that make your facts machine-readable and quotable — and how to implement them without hurting yourself.
How to show up in Google AI Overviews
Overviews answer the query before the links. How they pick sources, and how to be cited in the answer instead of buried below it.
Strong SEO, invisible in AI search — why, and how to fix it
Ranking #1 on Google no longer guarantees you appear in AI answers. Why strong SEO doesn't translate into citations — and the fixes that do.
Query fan-out: how AI turns one question into many searches
AI doesn't search your exact question — it splits it into sub-queries. Here's how fan-out works and how to win the sub-questions.
The citation cliff: why AI visibility decays and how to keep it
AI citations aren't permanent. Why visibility falls off a cliff around three months — and how to hold your place.
GEO vs AEO vs LLMO: the AI-search alphabet soup, explained
GEO, AEO, LLMO, AIO — mostly the same goal under different names. What each emphasizes, and why the label barely matters.
How to get cited by ChatGPT, Perplexity & Gemini
A practical playbook: fix crawlability, nail entity clarity, publish answer-first content, earn corroboration, and measure citations.
AEO vs SEO: what changes when AI answers the question
SEO gets your link ranked; AEO gets your brand named inside the answer. What's the same, what's different, and how to split your effort.
How to measure your brand's visibility in AI answers
From a manual spot-check to continuous tracking — how to see whether ChatGPT, Perplexity and Gemini name and cite your brand.
What is Answer Engine Optimization (AEO)?
A plain-English guide to AEO: what it is, why it matters now, how it differs from SEO, and how to start showing up in AI answers.