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AI search: getting cited in AI Overviews, ChatGPT and Perplexity
How AI Overviews, ChatGPT and Perplexity choose what to cite, and what makes a page eligible. Answer engine optimization, generative engine optimization, and the tracking that shows whether your brand actually appears in an answer.
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Where Does AI Get Its Information? The 4 Sources
When an AI assistant answers a question about your brand, it learned about you four different ways. Two of them you can change this quarter. Do you know which two?
Team AllAbleAI SearchSep 27, 2026AI SEO Agents: What Actually Works for Marketing Teams (Tested)
Here's what nobody on the vendor side will tell you about AI SEO agents: most of the marketing around them is theater, and the parts that actually work are boringly practical. I've spent the last six months running agent-driven SEO workflows against real client sites — keyword clustering, content briefs, internal linking, rank monitoring — and the gap between the demo and the daily grind is wide. The useful version of this story isn't a headline. It's knowing exactly which tasks an agent can own outright, which ones will quietly cost you if you let go, and how to find out the difference in seven days instead of seven months. The teams I talk to split into "autopilot SEO" true believers and total skeptics, and both positions are wrong. So when you see "24/7 autonomous SEO agent" on a pricing page, what should you actually expect to get — and what are you about to be sold?
Martin J.AI SearchSep 1, 2026Brand Gap Analysis for AI Search: Why You're Invisible (2026)
You already know what your brand gap is on Google. You've read the perception-versus-reality frameworks, filled in the SWOT grids, maybe even sat through a positioning workshop that ended with a 2×2 matrix nobody looks at. That version of the problem is solved — and it's the wrong version now. AI search doesn't care about your brand story. It cares whether it can find, recognize, and safely recommend you when a buyer asks who the best option in your category is. And if you've never run a brand gap analysis against that standard, there's a gap you haven't measured. Do you know what ChatGPT says when someone asks for a tool like yours?
Martin J.AI SearchAug 25, 2026Reddit SEO for AI Search Visibility: The 2026 Guide
Reddit now ranks above editorial sites and feeds the AI answers your customers read. Here's the 2026 playbook for getting your brand cited in both — without astroturfing. Ready to see where your brand actually shows up?
Martin J.AI SearchAug 25, 2026
See where AI search cites your brand.
llms.txt for Marketers: What It Is and Whether You Need One (2026)
Your newsletter mentioned it last week, and the conference slide showed it the week before. Your dev team has already asked twice. llms.txt is the file everyone tells you to add "for AI" — and seven independent 2026 studies found it does nothing measurable for AI visibility. Yet the file has one real job that works today, and it's probably not the one you're being sold. Which job does your site actually need it for?
Martin J.AI SearchAug 22, 2026AI Search Monitoring: A Practical System for Marketing Teams (2026)
Your team can tell you exactly where your brand ranks on Google, what you pay per click, and how many people opened last week's email. Ask them where your brand shows up when a buyer asks ChatGPT for a recommendation — and watch the silence. Only 22% of marketers track AI visibility, so most of your competitors are flying blind too. That's your opening, not your excuse. The question you have to answer first: who is writing your brand's answer right now?
Martin J.AI SearchAug 21, 2026Answer Engine Optimization (AEO): The Complete Guide for Marketing Teams
Answer engine optimization decides whether ChatGPT cites you or your competitor. You've heard the term — 51% of B2B buyers now start research in an AI chatbot. When was the last time your content was the answer?
Martin J.AI SearchAug 17, 2026GPT-5.5 and SEO: How OpenAI's Latest Model Changed AI Citations for Marketers
Here's something almost nobody in your position noticed happening: OpenAI swapped GPT-5.5 in as ChatGPT's default model in late May, and somewhere in that transition, the rules for which brands get mentioned in an answer quietly changed. Two independent research teams went looking for what actually shifted — one tracked 3.8 million real ChatGPT responses around the switch date, the other ran controlled tests to find the exact mechanism behind it. What they found split the internet into brands that gained ground and brands that vanished from view, and the split wasn't random. Have you actually checked which side of that line you landed on? A lot of the AI-visibility playbooks floating around right now are still built for a version of ChatGPT that quietly stopped existing months ago.
Martin J.AI SearchAug 8, 2026
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