Real numbers from running 384 posts across 13 languages: what site-level depth, trust signals, and consistency actually mean once you stop treating quality as a page-by-page question.
GEO advice is usually written for a marketing team. Here's the version for solo operators and indie founders — what to do first when you have an hour a week, no analyst, and no budget for an agency.
Updated for 2026. A concrete framework for operators on where Perplexity, ChatGPT Search, and Google AI Overviews actually send traffic — and which to prioritize first.
Updated for 2026. ChatGPT citations aren't random — they follow patterns. Here's the operator playbook for getting your brand surfaced in AI-generated answers.
Updated for 2026. llms.txt is a proposed standard that lets you curate what AI crawlers index about your site. Here's what it is, how to implement it, and whether it actually moves citations in Perplexity, ChatGPT, and Bing.
Updated for 2026. How brick-and-mortar businesses get cited by ChatGPT and Perplexity. Google Business Profile, LocalBusiness schema, NAP consistency, and review velocity — explained with Pickleland as a live example.
Updated for 2026. Not all schema types pay off equally for AI search. FAQPage and HowTo give the most GEO lift per hour of work — here's the full breakdown with JSON-LD examples.
Updated for 2026. You probably already have the content AI engines want to cite. The work is restructuring, not writing. Here's the exact process I use to get existing posts cited by ChatGPT and Perplexity.
Updated for 2026. Getting cited by ChatGPT isn't about ranking — it's about being the cleanest source to lift. Write a direct-answer TL;DR, mark up entities, earn third-party mentions, and keep your facts machine-checkable.
Updated for 2026. How I measure AI-search traffic from ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Claude — referrer tracking, the dark-traffic problem, and what to trust.