AI Search Visibility Blog
Guides and original data on getting your brand named by ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity and Google AI Overviews.
Adding AI Visibility Reporting to Your Agency's Services
How agencies can package an AI visibility audit and monthly report: scope, deliverables, pricing, tooling, and what never to promise clients.
2026-10-23 · 6 min readIndustriesRestaurants in AI Recommendations: Menus, Hours and Reviews
How restaurants get named in ChatGPT and AI search: machine-readable menus, accurate hours, cuisine and area clarity, reviews, and local press.
2026-10-23 · 5 min readIndustriesDental Practices in AI Answers: A Practical Playbook
How dental practices get named in AI answers: treatment pages, credentials, reviews, local schema, and the crawler rules that decide what AI can cite.
2026-10-21 · 6 min readIndustriesLaw Firms and AI Search: Being the Firm ChatGPT Names
Practical steps for law firms to get named in ChatGPT, Gemini and Perplexity answers: practice-area pages, jurisdiction clarity, bios and bar-rule compliance.
2026-10-21 · 6 min readIndustriesAI Visibility for Online Stores: Product Data Beats Clever Copy
How structured product data, specs, availability and return policies shape AI shopping visibility for online stores, plus a practical schema checklist.
2026-10-19 · 6 min readIndustriesLocal Businesses and AI Assistants: Getting Named in 'Near Me' Answers
How local businesses get named in AI 'near me' answers: consistent NAP, Google Business Profile, reviews, service-area pages, and LocalBusiness schema.
2026-10-19 · 7 min readIndustriesAI Visibility for SaaS: Getting on the Shortlist Buyers Ask AI For
How B2B SaaS brands get named when buyers ask AI for shortlists: crawler access, category and comparison pages, pricing clarity, third-party proof.
2026-10-16 · 6 min readOff-siteDigital PR for AI Visibility: Getting Named in the Sources AI Trusts
A practical playbook for digital PR in AI search: find the domains AI cites for your prompts, pitch them with useful data, and measure results.
2026-10-16 · 7 min readOff-siteReddit, Forums and AI Answers: Earning Mentions Without Spam
How community threads end up as sources in AI answers, what disclosure rules require, how to participate as a named expert, and what gets accounts banned.
2026-10-14 · 5 min readOff-siteHow Reviews Shape AI Recommendations for Local and Product Searches
How review sites and customer reviews shape what AI assistants recommend, plus practical ways to earn and manage reviews without breaking platform rules.
2026-10-14 · 6 min readContentOriginal Research Is the Most Citable Thing You Can Publish
How to run small, cheap original research that earns citations in AI answers, using a 210-site robots.txt study as a worked example.
2026-10-12 · 6 min readStrategyWhy AI Recommends Your Competitor Instead of You
A step-by-step diagnostic for when AI recommends a competitor but not you: five causes, how to tell which one applies, and what to fix first.
2026-10-12 · 7 min readContentEntity Consistency: Why AI Confuses Your Brand (and How to Fix It)
How inconsistent names, categories and facts across your site and profiles confuse AI assistants, and how to fix brand entity signals.
2026-10-09 · 6 min readContentWriting FAQ Sections That Double as AI Answers
How to write FAQ sections that get picked up by ChatGPT, Gemini and Perplexity: question wording, 40–80 word answers, and when FAQ schema helps.
2026-10-09 · 5 min readChecklistsThe AI Visibility Audit: A 30-Point Checklist
A 30-point AI visibility audit checklist for marketers: crawler access, entity clarity, answerable content, mentions, and measurement, with pass/fail tests.
2026-10-07 · 6 min readContentComparison Pages That AI Assistants Actually Quote
Learn how to structure comparison pages that AI assistants quote: criteria tables, honest weaknesses, fit sections, and a dated template.
2026-10-07 · 5 min readEnginesDoes Claude Recommend Brands? How Claude's Web Search Works
Anthropic runs three crawlers: ClaudeBot, Claude-User, Claude-SearchBot. Here is what blocking each one does and how to check your robots.txt.
2026-10-05 · 5 min readEnginesGemini and Your Brand: How Grounded Answers Pick Websites
How Gemini's grounded answers choose sources, what Google-Extended actually controls, and a practical checklist for earning Gemini citations.
2026-10-05 · 5 min readEnginesGoogle AI Overviews vs ChatGPT: Two Different Games
AI Overviews run on Googlebot and the Google index. ChatGPT search uses separate crawlers. Here is which levers actually move each one.
2026-10-02 · 5 min readEnginesGetting Cited by Perplexity: What Its Answers Reward
How Perplexity picks and cites sources, what PerplexityBot and Perplexity-User actually do, and how to test whether your brand gets named.
2026-10-02 · 6 min readTechnicalSchema Markup for AI Search: Which Types Are Worth Your Time
Schema markup for AI search: what Organization, Product, LocalBusiness, FAQPage and Article tell machines, with JSON-LD examples and Google's content-match rule.
2026-09-30 · 6 min readMeasurementShare of Voice in AI Answers: How to Calculate It
Learn how to calculate AI share of voice across prompts and engines, with a worked example and a simple formula you can run in a spreadsheet.
2026-09-30 · 6 min readMeasurementChoosing the Prompts to Track: A Method, Not a Guess
Build a prompt tracking set from four intents, keep it brand-free and stable, and retire prompts without losing your baseline.
2026-09-28 · 7 min readMeasurementHow to Measure AI Visibility Without Fooling Yourself
A practical guide to AI visibility metrics that survive run-to-run variance: sample size, fixed prompt sets, mention rate vs position, and week-over-week tracking.
2026-09-28 · 7 min readEnginesHow ChatGPT Search Picks the Sources It Cites
What OpenAI documents about ChatGPT sources and citations, what stays speculation, and how to make your pages easier for search-driven answers to cite.
2026-09-25 · 5 min readTechnicalllms.txt Explained: What It Is, Who Reads It, and Whether You Need One
llms.txt is a proposed file that gives AI assistants a clean map of your site. What it is, who actually reads it, and whether it's worth adding.
2026-09-25 · 5 min readOriginal DataWho Blocks AI Crawlers? We Read the robots.txt of 210 Major Websites
We parsed robots.txt from 210 major sites. 33.7% block a training crawler, 19.9% block a search crawler, and 14.5% block training but keep search open.
2026-09-23 · 7 min readTechnicalGPTBot vs OAI-SearchBot vs ChatGPT-User: Which OpenAI Crawler Should You Allow?
Compare GPTBot, OAI-SearchBot and ChatGPT-User, with robots.txt snippets for three policies and the visibility trade-off of each.
2026-09-23 · 5 min readFundamentalsAEO vs GEO vs SEO: What Actually Changes (and What Doesn't)
AEO vs GEO vs SEO compared: which classic SEO work still transfers, what's genuinely new, and where GEO gets oversold.
2026-09-21 · 7 min readFundamentalsWhat Is AI Search Visibility? A Plain-English Definition for Marketers
AI search visibility means three things: being mentioned, where you rank in the answer, and whether you are cited. Here is how to measure each.
2026-09-21 · 5 min read