Getting cited by AI, explained
Honest, fact-checked guides to Answer Engine Optimization: how AI engines decide what to quote, what is changing, and how to make any page citation-ready. Every statistic links to its source.
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10 Questions to Ask Any AI Visibility Vendor Before You Pay
AI visibility tools all promise to tell you whether ChatGPT and Google AI recommend you. Their methods differ wildly, and most do not say how they get their numbers. These ten questions separate measurement from marketing.
·7 min read
9 Things That Make a Page Citation-Ready for AI
A practical checklist mapped to the nine signals that decide whether an AI engine can find, parse, trust, and quote your page.
·6 min read
How AI Engines Decide What to Cite
A plain-language look at the retrieval-and-synthesis pipeline behind AI answers, and what actually makes a page quotable.
·7 min read
AEO vs SEO: The 2026 Field Guide
SEO gets your page ranked as a link. AEO gets your page quoted inside the AI answer. Here is how the two differ, where they overlap, and how to start on the new layer without throwing away the old one.
·7 min read
What Is Answer Engine Optimization (AEO)?
A plain-language guide to the practice of getting your content cited inside AI-generated answers, why it emerged now, and how it differs from SEO and GEO.
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