The retrieval layer between users and LLMs has its own preferences for what gets cited, and they don’t map neatly onto traditional SEO signals. A debate keeps surfacing in marketing circles that reveals how poorly the industry understands what’s actually happening inside AI search. One side says: stop trying to optimize for LLMs, they’re just ...
Pasting your entire prompt twice in a single message gives the LLM a structural advantage, and one study saw accuracy jump from 21% to 97% with zero extra effort. Here’s a prompting technique that takes zero effort and genuinely improves results: copy your entire prompt and paste it twice in the same message. Send the ...
Someone in my network posted a Google Search Console screenshot last week to prove their “AI search strategy” was driving results. Clicks and impressions from Google. As evidence that their client was winning in ChatGPT. This is not a one-off. It’s becoming the standard proof point in GEO and AEO pitches. And it’s completely nonsensical. ...
A recent Ahrefs video by Sam Oh walks through the standard playbook for growing a new website from zero: get listed in directories, build free tools, start an email list, show up in forums, pursue sweat-equity partnerships. It’s solid advice. Every tactic on the list works. And none of them, on their own, will build ...
Ahrefs analyzed a billion data points across eleven AI search studies, and the clearest signal is that AI visibility tracks with how much people talk about your brand, not how much content you publish. Ahrefs just published eleven studies analyzing over a billion data points on AI search. There’s a lot in there. YouTube correlations, ...
Allegro.pl is Poland’s dominant e-commerce platform. It’s not a niche player or an upstart. It is the market leader, full stop. So when a Polish user, searching from a Polish IP address, asks ChatGPT in Polish for the best auction portals, you’d expect Allegro to appear prominently in the results. It doesn’t. In many cases, ...
G2’s AI citation study is a land grab disguised as research, but it reveals something real: the infrastructure of B2B buyer influence is being rebuilt around which sources AI models trust at the bottom of the funnel. G2 recently published a study analyzing roughly 35,000 ChatGPT citation URLs to answer a straightforward question: do review ...
Organic traffic declines. The team panics. Someone says the words “generative engine optimization.” A new initiative spins up: get the brand cited by ChatGPT, show up in AI Mode, win in Perplexity. The tactics are familiar if you’ve been paying attention. Self-promotional listicles. Hidden prompt injections. Content engineered not for readers but for retrieval. It ...
The way most people picture AI search is wrong. They imagine a user types a question, the AI thinks for a moment, and an answer appears. Clean, linear, one-to-one. What’s actually happening looks more like a casting call. When someone asks Perplexity or SearchGPT a complex question, the system doesn’t reason from memory. It decomposes ...
Every growth engagement starts the same way. The brief says “we need more content.” The roadmap is full of net-new pages, net-new blog posts, net-new landing pages. The assumption is always that the content gap is a production problem. Then you look at what the company already has. Help documentation with detailed explanations of every ...