Generative Engine Optimization — getting cited in ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, and Claude. The new top-of-funnel.
9 essays tagged geo
Most AI content workflows produce fluent, forgettable filler that ranks for nothing. This is the engine we actually run: a human-gated pipeline of research, drafting, and editing agents that produces content dense and original enough to rank in Google and get cited by AI.
GEO AEO is the engineering side of getting into AI answers: entities, structured data, and Q&A formatting that make your content machine-readable. The technical companion to GEO, with the schema and entity work spelled out.
GEO GEO is how you get cited inside ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, and Google AI Overviews. This is the complete operating manual: how citation works, what to change on your site, and how to measure it — with no overlap with classic SEO fluff.
GEO llms.txt is a plain-text index at the root of your domain that tells AI engines which pages are canonical and what each covers. It takes an hour, costs nothing, and measurably increases citations. Here's exactly how to build one.
SEO Local search now has three surfaces to win: the Map Pack, classic organic, and AI answers that recommend a single business. Here's the 2026 local SEO playbook for a business that serves a place — the fundamentals that still rank and the AI layer most local businesses are ignoring.
SEO Programmatic SEO can build thousands of pages that rank — or thousands that get your whole site demoted as spam. The 2026 line between the two is sharper than ever now that AI makes mass page generation trivial. Here's how to scale on the right side of it.
SEO Ten SEO tactics that survived AI Overviews and still move traffic in 2026. Not the obvious ones — the ones working operators are quietly using while the rest of the industry panics.
SEO Most 'how to write for SEO' guides are still optimizing for the 2019 Google. Here's how we structure every post across our 11-brand portfolio so it ranks in Google AND gets pulled into AI Overviews, ChatGPT, and Perplexity citations.
SEO SEO didn't die in 2024 — it absorbed GEO. This is the full 2026 playbook for ranking in Google AND getting cited in ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, and Claude. No fluff, no theory.