AI visibility guides for people who need the system to make sense.
index: guides · 51 published
Practical, research-grounded walkthroughs for making your site visible and citable to AI answer engines. No guaranteed-ranking promises — just the technical and content signals that help models find and quote you.
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Foundations
AI SEO, GEO, llms.txt, and crawler access.
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Citability
How answer engines choose sources and references.
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Execution
Checklists and implementation paths for real sites.
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AEO vs GEO: same practice, different vocabulary?
AEO and GEO both mean optimizing content for AI answer engines. What actually differs — origin, community, emphasis — and what matters for your site.
published: September 4, 2026
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GEO Prompt Research: How to Find the Prompts Your Buyers Actually Ask AI Engines
Keyword research targets queries; GEO targets prompts. A practical method to find, group, and prioritize the questions buyers ask AI engines.
published: September 4, 2026
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Google AI Overviews for Local Businesses: A Practical Playbook
Local 'near me' queries are exactly the kind AI Overviews love to answer. Here's what actually moves the needle for a local business.
published: September 3, 2026
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What is Answer Engine Optimization (AEO)?
Answer Engine Optimization (AEO) means structuring content so AI answer engines can extract, trust, and cite it. What AEO is, and how it relates to GEO.
published: September 3, 2026
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How Google's AI Overviews Actually Cite Sources (Technical Breakdown)
The citation carousel, multi-source attribution, and why there's no single exported ranking behind an AI Overview. A technical look at the citation mechanism itself.
published: August 31, 2026
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Does HowTo Schema Still Matter for AI Search in 2026
Google scaled back HowTo rich results, but that's a different question from whether HowTo schema still helps AI answer engines parse step-based content.
published: August 31, 2026
Free tools
Use the tools when a guide turns into an implementation task.
cost: $0 · no account
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Free AI SEO audit
Check crawler access, schema, llms.txt, content quality, AI discovery, and entity signals before prioritizing fixes.
Audit
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ChatGPT visibility checker
Use this path when the question is whether ChatGPT can understand, mention, or cite a website.
Visibility
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Perplexity citation checker
Inspect source-backed answers and see whether Perplexity-style results cite your domain or competitors.
Citations
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Free llms.txt generator
Generate a starter llms.txt from a sitemap, then publish the editable Markdown at the domain root.
Tool
Pages for commercial questions
Use these when the guide topic maps to a buyer, SaaS, WordPress, or monitoring workflow.
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AI SEO audit for SaaS
Audit product, pricing, comparison, alternative, and docs pages before buyer-intent prompts send users elsewhere.
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ChatGPT visibility audit
Find the access, entity, schema, or content blocker that keeps a page out of ChatGPT-style answers.
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Perplexity citation monitoring
Move from one citation snapshot to recurring checks for source losses and competitor replacements.
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llms.txt generator for WordPress
Generate the file, publish it at the WordPress domain root, then audit AI discovery and crawler access.
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