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GEO · Citation

July 24, 2026 · 8 min read

How Each AI Engine Decides What to Cite

Five engines, five citation logics. The engine-by-engine breakdown — and the one move to make on each.

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GEO · Local

July 13, 2026 · 7 min read

How AI Engines Find and Recommend Local Businesses

ChatGPT leans on Foursquare, Perplexity on Yelp, Copilot on Bing Places. The engine-by-engine map of where AI gets its local data, and exactly what to claim.

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GEO · AI Overviews

July 13, 2026 · 8 min read

How to Appear in Google AI Overviews

The AI Overview now sits above organic result number one. Here's how Google builds the answer box, and the seven moves that get your pages cited inside it.

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GEO · Strategy

June 4, 2026 · 6 min read

Generative Engine Optimization: Why AI Search Is the New Front Page

ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Google's AI Overviews now answer the question before a user ever clicks. If your brand isn't in the answer, you're invisible. Here's what GEO is, and why it's not optional.

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GEO · Playbook

May 28, 2026 · 7 min read

How to Get Your Brand Cited by ChatGPT, Perplexity & AI Overviews

Getting recommended by an AI engine takes structure, authority, and clarity, not luck. Our eight-step playbook shows how to become the source these models quote.

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GEO · Glossary

July 8, 2026 · 22 terms

The GEO & AI Search Glossary

GEO, AEO, AI Overviews, citation share, entity SEO, llms.txt: every term that matters in AI search, defined in plain English you can quote.

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