GEO research quantified: how quotes, statistics, and source links lift AI citation rates
Three editorial changes, one peer-reviewed study, and a realistic refresh cadence for B2B teams that don’t have a newsroom.
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Field notes on SEO, AEO, and GEO from the Digital Domination team.
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llms.txt: the spec-compliant format guide for SMBs (step-by-step)
How to build an llms.txt file AI crawlers can actually navigate—and why a file full of marketing prose is worse than not having one at all.
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After Google’s AI guide: is GEO still a discipline—or just good SEO?
Google says optimizing for AI is “still SEO.” The citation data, the platform gaps, and the audit scores I keep seeing say the story isn’t that clean.
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Why AI chatbots can’t find your company—and how Organization schema fixes it
If ChatGPT and Perplexity won’t recommend you, the problem usually isn’t your content. It’s that the machine can’t tell who you are.
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265 million missing clicks: what DACH B2B companies must measure instead of SEO rankings in 2026
Your rank tracker is green, your GA4 is red, and the gap has a name. Here’s the number that explains it—and the four-layer stack that replaces position tracking as your primary KPI.
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Training bot vs. search bot: configure robots.txt to block AI training without losing citation visibility
Cloudflare’s new default block frames the choice as all-or-nothing. It isn’t. Here’s the surgical split that protects your content and keeps you citable in ChatGPT, Claude, and Perplexity.
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GSC’s new Generative AI report doesn’t track CTR—here is your new KPI for AI search visibility
Google just shipped a native instrument for AI impression data. It deliberately leaves out clicks—and that omission tells you exactly which metric to put on your dashboard.
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FAQ rich results are dead—here’s the schema stack that still gets you cited by AI in 2026
Google killed the display feature, not the data. The B2B sites stripping FAQPage right now are deleting the one signal AI engines still read.
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How LLMs decide which sources to cite
What ChatGPT, Claude, and Perplexity actually read from a site — and why clean schema.org annotations move the needle more than a third hero slider.
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The 2026 AI crawler roster: GPTBot, PerplexityBot, ClaudeBot, OAI-AdsBot—which one actually sends traffic?
Four bots crawl your site every day. Only one of them sends visitors back. Here’s the data, the decision matrix, and the robots.txt snippets I use on every audit.
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Ranking #1 no longer guarantees AI citations: the 2026 citation gap every B2B team must understand
You can own the top blue link for your core term and still be invisible when your buyers ask ChatGPT, Perplexity, or Google AI Mode who to hire. Here’s why—and what actually drives citation now.