AI search visibility
How ChatGPT, Google AI Overviews, and answer engines find and cite businesses — and the structural groundwork that makes accurate citation possible.
How to Show Up in Google AI Overviews and AI Mode (What Google Actually Says)
There is a lot of advice about "optimizing for AI Overviews," and almost none of it comes from Google. Google's own guidance is short and specific — no special files, no special markup, "still SEO" — and Search Console now shows you whether you're appearing. Here is what Google has published, what it means for a local business, and the honest line between what you control and what you don't.
How ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Claude Find Your Website (and the robots.txt Mistakes That Hide It)
Every AI assistant that cites websites reaches them through a crawler, and each company documents exactly which bot does what. Here is the decision table built only from those official pages, the difference between training bots and search bots, the CDN and firewall settings that silently block all of them, and the honest verdict on llms.txt.
SEO vs GEO vs AEO — What the Acronyms Mean and What Actually Changed
Three acronyms, one foundation. GEO came from a 2023 research paper, AEO from the featured-snippet era, and vendors now sell all three as separate disciplines. Google's position is that optimizing for its AI features is still SEO. Here is where each term came from, what genuinely differs about being cited versus being ranked, and how to tell a real service from a relabelled one.
How AI Search Changes Website SEO (and What It Leaves Alone)
People increasingly ask AI assistants instead of scanning results pages, and AI answers cite websites that are legible, consistent, and quotable. Here is what genuinely changes for a business website, what Google and the AI companies say officially, and the parts of the hype — special files, special markup — that the evidence doesn't support.
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