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What is GEO — and why does it matter more than SEO right now?
Generative Engine Optimization isn't a rebrand of SEO. It's a fundamentally different problem: getting AI to trust you enough to recommend you, in its own words.
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9 articlesThe six GEO signals that decide whether AI recommends your brand
Mention rate, citation rate, sentiment, top-pick position, engine coverage, share of voice — what each one measures and how to move it.
The complete guide to llms.txt: what it is, why it matters, and how to write one
llms.txt is the robots.txt of the AI era. Here's how to structure yours so AI engines understand your brand, products, and authority.
AI-referred traffic vs. Google traffic: why the conversion gap is real
A buyer who found you through an AI recommendation has already been pre-sold. Here's the data on why AI sessions convert at 3–7× the rate of organic search.
How to write comparison pages that AI actually cites
AI engines love comparison content — but not all comparison pages get cited. The structure, entity signals, and schema patterns that make yours the one AI quotes.
The Shopify GEO checklist: 17 fixes that move your AI visibility score
From product schema to FAQ blocks to brand entity files — the complete list of what Stride scans for and how to fix each gap.
How to monitor your brand mentions across ChatGPT, Gemini, and Perplexity
Manual prompt testing, API-based monitoring, and what to actually do when you find a competitor is being recommended in your place.
Entity SEO for AI: why structured data is your fastest path to citations
AI engines don't crawl links — they synthesize entities. Here's how to structure your brand, product, and author entities so models trust you as a source.
GEO vs. SEO: what's actually different and what you can reuse
Most SEO work you've already done transfers to GEO — but the gaps are different, the metrics are different, and the winning moves look nothing like link building.
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