Experiments & Tutorials

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Deep dives on AI infrastructure, RAG, knowledge graphs, databases, and building with agents.

AI SEO EXPERIMENTS

Google Says GEO Is Just SEO. We Checked the Receipts From Every Other Search Vendor.

2026-05-16

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AI SEO for Agencies

How to Add AI SEO Services to Your Marketing Agency

2026-05-14

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AI SEO for Agencies

How to Pitch AI SEO Services to Your Existing Agency Clients

2026-05-14

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AI Strategy

How to Get Your Site Suggested in AI Chat: A Research-Backed Guide to Brand Recognition in ChatGPT, Claude, and Perplexity

2026-04-29

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AI Strategy

How to Rank in LLMs: A Research-Backed Guide to Getting Cited by ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, and Google AI Mode

2026-04-29

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AI SEO Tools

AI Visibility Trackers: How to Monitor Your Brand in ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, and Google AI Mode (2026)

2026-04-24

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AI SEO EXPERIMENTS

AI SEO Strategy: Stop Tracking Queries, Track Search Types Instead

2026-04-13

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AI SEO EXPERIMENTS

AI Citation Experiment: How Word Choice Changes Which Sources AI Cites (1,620 Tests)

2026-04-12

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AI SEO EXPERIMENTS

Query Fan-Out: How AI Decomposes Searches Before Answering (GEO Research)

2026-04-11

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AI TOOLS

AI SEO Competitive Intelligence: How to Track What AI Says About Your Brand and Competitors

2026-04-06

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AI SEO EXPERIMENTS

AI Platform Citation Comparison: ChatGPT vs Perplexity vs Google AI Mode vs Claude

2026-04-06

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AI Strategy

Reddit and AI SEO: How Reddit Shapes Google Rankings, AI Citations, and Brand Visibility

2026-04-06

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AI Strategy

How to Write Content That AI Will Cite: Formats, Structure, and Optimization Guide

2026-04-06

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AI TOOLS

AI Visibility Troubleshooting: Why AI Is Not Citing Your Website and How to Fix It

2026-04-06

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AI TOOLS

AI Visibility Monitoring: Share of Voice, Citation Tracking, and Analytics Dashboards

2026-04-06

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AI TOOLS

Technical SEO for AI Citations: Schema Markup, Internal Links, and Page Structure

2026-04-06

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AI TOOLS

AI Visibility: A Complete Guide to AI Bot Tracking, robots.txt, and Monitoring

2026-04-06

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AI SEO EXPERIMENTS

How Google AI Mode Works and How to Get Cited: The Complete Research-Backed Guide

2026-04-05

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AI SEO EXPERIMENTS

How Perplexity Search Works and How to Get Cited: The Complete Research-Backed Guide

2026-04-05

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AI SEO EXPERIMENTS

How ChatGPT Search Works and How to Get Cited: The Complete Research-Backed Guide

2026-04-05

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AI SEO EXPERIMENTS

AI Citation Research: 93% of Brand Mentions Come From Third-Party Sites

2026-04-05

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AI SEO EXPERIMENTS

We Tested Whether Google Knowing Who You Are Helps AI Cite You. It Doesnt.

2026-04-05

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AI SEO EXPERIMENTS

ChatGPT and Bing: AI Citation Research Reveals the Real Source Number Is 27%, Not 87%

2026-04-05

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AI Understanding

Generative Engine Optimization (GEO): The Complete Guide for 2026

2026-04-05

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AI SEO EXPERIMENTS

What Predicts AI Citation: We Tested 10,293 Pages (GEO Research)

2026-04-02

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AI SEO EXPERIMENTS

Claude Web Fetch Explained: How Anthropics AI Retrieves, Evaluates, and Cites Web Content

2026-03-30

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AI Understanding

AI Search Grounding: How AI Citation Works in ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Google

2026-03-30

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AI SEO EXPERIMENTS

First-Party vs Third-Party AI Citation: What AI Platforms Actually Prefer

2026-03-30

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AI SEO EXPERIMENTS

ChatGPT Brand Bias: Which Brands Dominate AI Citations (And Why)

2026-03-30

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AI Strategy

AI SEO by Vertical: Data-Backed Optimization Strategies for 10 Industries

2026-03-30

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AI Strategy

YouTube SEO for AI Citations: How to Get Your Videos Cited by AI Search

2026-03-30

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AI Strategy

The Future of SEO With AI Search: GEO, Agents, Protocols, and the End of Click-Through

2026-03-30

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AI Strategy

AI Citation Sources: Which Review Sites Do AI Platforms Cite Most?

2026-03-30

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AI SEO EXPERIMENTS

Is GEO Just Repackaged SEO? We Tested 10,293 Pages to Find Out

2026-03-27

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AI SEO EXPERIMENTS

The Princeton GEO Paper Is One-Third Right: A 3,205-Page Replication

2026-03-26

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AI Strategy

Answer Capsule Optimization for AI Citation: Does It Actually Work?

2026-03-24

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AI Understanding

Does ChatGPT Use Bing or Google? The Search Engine Behind Every AI Citation

2026-03-24

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AI SEO EXPERIMENTS

Content Freshness and AI Citations: How Recency Bias Shapes What Gets Cited

2026-03-24

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AI SEO EXPERIMENTS

Google Rank vs AI Citation: A 34x Per-Page Gradient Hidden Behind 7.8% URL Overlap

2026-03-24

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AI SEO EXPERIMENTS

7 Page Features That Predict AI Citation (And 5 That Dont Matter At All)

2026-03-24

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AI TOOLS

Server-Side Rendering for AI SEO: Why JavaScript-Heavy Sites Are Invisible to AI

2026-03-24

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AI SEO EXPERIMENTS

AI Bot Access: Why OpenAIs Two Bots Treat robots.txt Differently

2026-03-24

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AI SEO EXPERIMENTS

Perplexity Lazy Gap: AI Citations Cite Content 3x Fresher Than Google

2026-03-24

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AI SEO EXPERIMENTS

GEO vs SEO: Where 100,411 AI Citations Actually Come From (And Why Most GEO Advice Misses 17%)

2026-04-27

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AI Understanding

What Is an AI Optimization Agency (And How to Choose One)

2026-03-23

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AI SEO EXPERIMENTS

AI Citation Optimization: The Complete Guide for 2026

2026-03-23

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AI TOOLS

How to Track AI Bots Crawling Your Site: AI Visibility Tools Compared

2026-03-23

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AI SEO EXPERIMENTS

Content Strategy for AI SEO: What Actually Gets Cited

2026-03-23

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AI Understanding

What Is Generative Engine Optimization (GEO)?

2026-02-15

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AI SEO EXPERIMENTS

Are AI Citations Random or Can You Consistently Rank

2026-02-05

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AI SEO EXPERIMENTS

Amazon Listings and AI Citation: Why Your Products Are Invisible to AI Search

2026-02-04

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AI SEO Experiments

How ChatGPT Researches Your Brand: 182 Queries, Two Modes, and the 93.4% Citation Gap

2026-01-27

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AI SEO Experiments

When Does ChatGPT Search the Web? AI Citation Triggers Across 391 Queries

2026-01-20

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AI SEO Experiments

Content Shelf-Life and AI Citation: When AI Stops Trusting Your Links

2026-01-17

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AI SEO Experiments

The 1.4% Overlap: Why Everything You Know About AI SEO Is Wrong

2026-01-15

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AI Strategy

AI Visibility Analytics: Why GA4 Underreports AI Traffic

2026-01-15

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