The blog
Every article on AI tools, answer engines, and getting cited by AI search.
What is answer engine optimization? A plain-English guide
A working definition, how answer engines choose their sources, and a checklist for getting cited.
How to rank in ChatGPT answers
Which crawlers to allow, what ChatGPT cites, and why.
Best AI SEO tools in 2026, tested
What each tool tracks, what it costs, and who it suits.
How Google's AI Overviews pick their sources
What published research says about which pages get cited.
AEO vs SEO: what actually changes
Where the two disciplines overlap and where they split.
llms.txt: what it is and whether you need one
What the file does, who reads it, whether to bother.
Schema markup for answer engines
The types worth adding and the ones engines ignore.
How Perplexity chooses its citations
Perplexity's ranking behavior and how publishers show up in it.
Measuring AI search traffic in your analytics
Finding AI referrals before they disappear into direct traffic.
Writing FAQ pages that AI engines quote
Question-shaped headings, direct answers, and formatting that survives extraction.