AI Search
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GEO, AEO, LLMO: Mostly SEO With a New Invoice
Three acronyms arrive with the confidence of a new discipline and the pricing of one. Some of it is real. Most is SEO renamed — because retrieval still runs on an index of the web. How to tell which line items are which.
Rank First, Get Half: How to Create an Effective SEO Strategy for 2027
With an AI Overview on the page, the top Google result draws about half the clicks. Here is how to build an SEO strategy for 2027 that still pays, in five plain steps and a 90-day start.
Search Console's New AI Report Counts Impressions, Not Clicks
Google's Generative AI performance report shows how often AI Overviews and AI Mode linked to your site, and nothing about who clicked. What it tells an owner, what it cannot, and the free reports to pair it with.
Blocking AI Crawlers Does Not Protect Your Content. It Removes You From the Answer.
The advice to block AI crawlers usually assumes they are all doing the same job. They are not — and blocking the wrong one removes you from the answers that could have sent you customers. What each choice actually costs.
We Asked ChatGPT for the Best Roofer in San Antonio. It Read the Lists.
Six runs, 32 citations, three of them to a business's own website. What ChatGPT cited when we asked for the best roofer, plumber and AC company in San Antonio, and what that means for a contractor.
ChatGPT Recommended Your Competitor. Now What?
You asked ChatGPT about your trade and it named the shop across town. Skip the panic and the "AI-optimized" package. Why it happens, what to check in the first hour, and the slow work that changes the answer.
We Added llms.txt to This Site. It Probably Does Nothing Yet.
This site has an llms.txt. It is auto-generated, it costs nothing to maintain, and there is no public evidence that any major AI system reads it. Here is why we added it anyway — and how to spot the moment 'might help' becomes a line item.
Voice Search Statistics: Which Numbers Are Real and Which Are Recycled
The famous "50% of searches will be voice by 2020" was a 2014 forecast about speech or images, later pinned on a company that never published it. Where the popular voice statistics really came from, which ones hold up, and five questions to test any number.
Social Media SEO for Local Businesses: Search, Social and AI
Customers now search Google, the apps on their phone and AI assistants. One job, filmed and published properly, can get a local business found in all three. Profiles, captions, the Google Business Profile and a twenty-minute weekly routine.
Reddit Is the New Yelp: What Local Businesses Should Do About It
Customers read the stars, then add one word to the search: reddit. Those threads rank on page one and feed the AI answers. Why a neighbor with nothing to sell beats fifty five-star reviews, what not to do about it, and the six things that actually work.
There Is No #1 in an AI Answer
Somebody will offer to rank you first in ChatGPT. But a generated answer is written, not ordered — ask the same question five times and get five answers. Here is what can honestly be measured instead of a position.
Your Site Ranks on Google and Is Invisible to AI. Here Is How to Check.
Google's crawler runs your JavaScript. Many others do not — they read the HTML your server sent and move on. If your content is assembled in the browser, you are not ranked badly in an AI answer; you are not in the running. Two tests, no tools.
What Is AI SEO?
AI SEO is optimizing your site to be cited by AI Overviews, ChatGPT, and Perplexity. Here's what changed, what still works, and where to start.
Geotargeting in an AI-First World: How Local Businesses Can Thrive If Google Search Changes
AI will not kill Google search — it will evolve local discovery. What that evolution demands from local businesses: tighter geotargeting, clearer entities, and measurable systems.
10 Proven Strategies to Rank Higher in AI-Powered Search Engines
AI search algorithms prioritize user intent, context, and content relevance with unprecedented precision. Ten data-driven strategies to stay competitive.