September 20, 2026·9 min read
AI Search And Copyright: What Content Teams Need To Know
Where the 2026 AI copyright cases stand, whether your AI-assisted content is protectable, and the five-point checklist that keeps your team clear of both.
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October 30, 2026·8 min read
Do You Need llms.txt For AI Search Optimization?
Probably not for citations, maybe for navigation. A decision framework by site type, fresh adoption data, and the five rules if you do add the file.
September 20, 2026·10 min read
Generative Engine Optimization Strategies That Still Work After ChatGPT 5.6
GPT-5.6 broke half the GEO playbook. The strategies that survived: source citing, passage-level answers, docs, entity trust, and weekly measurement.
September 20, 2026·8 min read
How to Publish AI-Optimized Content to Postiz
Using Postiz as the scheduling layer of an AI content pipeline: the three ways in, a repurposing workflow that compounds, and the pitfalls to skip.
October 30, 2026·8 min read
How To Track ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, And Gemini In Server Logs
Read AI search in your access logs: the crawler cast per vendor, grep starters, spoofing checks, and the two traps that make logs lie to you.
October 30, 2026·9 min read
How To Track Google AI Overviews Separately From Organic Rankings
Search Console won't split AI Overview clicks from organic. Five methods to build the split yourself, plus the scoreboard and traps to avoid.
September 20, 2026·9 min read
Why AI Published Articles Get Zero Clicks Before They Are Written
The zero-click fate of most AI articles is sealed at the planning stage. The five upstream causes, the pre-writing checklist, and planning that fixes it.
September 19, 2026·8 min read
How To Use AI Search Queries From Google Search Console Without Overfitting
AI-shaped queries are showing up in Search Console. How to extract the intent signal, cluster it safely, and dodge the overfitting traps.
September 19, 2026·8 min read
ChatGPT Search Prompts In Google Search Console: What They Mean For SEO
Prompt-shaped queries are showing up in Search Console. Where they come from, what the OpenAI-Google scraping lawsuit changed, and how to read them.
September 19, 2026·9 min read
Does Blocking AI Crawlers Stop Perplexity From Citing Your Content?
Mostly no. Blocking PerplexityBot removes you from its index, but on-demand fetches and third-party paths remain. What blocking actually changes.
September 19, 2026·9 min read
How To Infer The Questions ChatGPT And Perplexity Are Answering For Your Market
AI engines don't publish query logs. Seven inference methods that reconstruct the question space anyway, and how to turn it into a content map.
September 19, 2026·9 min read
How To Optimize Your Website For AI Search: Structure, Sources, And Brand Signals
The three optimization pillars that decide AI citations: page structure engines can lift, sources that make claims citable, and brand signals retrieval trusts.
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