AEO and GEO
Answer engine optimization and generative engine optimization: how to get cited by ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude, and Google AI Overviews.
The Best AEO Tools in 2026 (Prices Verified This Week)
Profound, Peec, Otterly, AthenaHQ, Semrush, SE Ranking and WhyIQ Radar compared on price, engines, and cadence. Every figure read off their own pages.
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What Each AI Engine Actually Wants Before It Cites You
ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude, Gemini, and Google AI Overviews each pick citations differently. What each engine wants, what blocks you, every figure sourced.
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Why AI Doesn't Cite You: 5 Blockers, Engine by Engine
Most AEO advice lists what earns a citation. The bigger lever is what prevents one. Five structural blockers, checked engine by engine.
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llms.txt: Does It Actually Work? We Checked the Data
llms.txt gets 5,400 searches a month. Google ignores it, 300K-domain studies found no citation effect, and we removed it from our own scoring engine.
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Why Reddit Outranks You on Google (and in AI Answers Too)
Google signed a $60M deal, AI engines followed, and now a forum thread beats your product page. The mechanics, and the three moves that still work.
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Google Just Told You to Stop Buying AEO Hacks
Google's official June 2026 guide says llms.txt, chunking, and AI-only rewrites are wasted effort. True on Google. Here's the cross-engine catch they left out, in 5 minutes.
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How AI Search Decides What to Cite (and How We Measure It the Same Way)
AI search retrieves and reads live pages (RAG grounding), then fans one query into many. Here is how ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Google AI choose sources, with the data, and how WhyIQ Radar measures it by running the real queries.
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What is GEO? Generative Engine Optimization, Explained
GEO is optimizing your content so AI engines quote you in their answers. The plain-English guide: what GEO is, how it relates to AEO and AI search visibility, how it differs from SEO, and who should care.
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Does AEO/GEO Replace SEO? No, But the Lever Changed
No. AEO and GEO layer on SEO, they don't replace it. The foundation is shared, but the authority signal moved from backlinks to brand mentions. The 2026 data, and how to do both.
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