Articles about "generative engine optimization"

SEO wins rankings, AEO wins direct answers, GEO wins AI citations. Same foundation, different finish lines — here's what each means and where to invest first.

Generative engine optimization (GEO) gets your content cited by AI search. Here is a 2026 checklist of 25 practical steps, from content structure to llms.txt and crawler rules.

No free tool tracks AI rankings like Google rankings. A 20-prompt test, Search Console's AI report and GA4 referrals reveal your AI search visibility free.

AI Mode is Google's conversational search, launched at I/O 2025. Sites are cited from the same index as regular search — here is the checklist to become citable.

Get cited by Claude without feeding its training data: allow Claude-SearchBot and Claude-User, block ClaudeBot, and write pages that are easy to quote.

E-E-A-T is not a score, but it decides which pages get cited: build experience, expertise, authority, and above all trust, and AI engines notice.

Get cited by Google Gemini: Gemini grounds answers in live Google Search, so ranking well and writing quotable, fresh passages is how your pages earn citations.