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Blog Post Format: A Layout That Ranks In Google And Gets Cited By AI
November 4, 2026·8 min read

Blog Post Format: A Layout That Ranks In Google And Gets Cited By AI

A blog post format you can reuse for every article, built from Google's own documentation: title, intro, headings, lists and tables, FAQ, author box and schema, and what Google says AI features need.

Does ChatGPT Pick Brands From Memory Or Live Search? What Tests Show
November 4, 2026·15 min read

Does ChatGPT Pick Brands From Memory Or Live Search? What Tests Show

Does ChatGPT recommend brands from memory or from live search? What Ahrefs, Semrush, OpenAI and independent tests show about how often it searches, why the numbers disagree, and what it means for brands.

Generative Engine Optimization PDF: A Practical Checklist For B2B SaaS Marketers
November 4, 2026·10 min read

Generative Engine Optimization PDF: A Practical Checklist For B2B SaaS Marketers

Where to find the GEO paper PDF, what its tables actually found, what held up after 2023, and a checklist built from its nine tested methods for B2B SaaS pages.

Should You Block AI Crawlers From Your Website?
November 4, 2026·10 min read

Should You Block AI Crawlers From Your Website?

Should you block AI crawlers? Most businesses should leave search and user bots open and decide on training bots deliberately. What 20 big sites do, and where blocks leak.

How To Show Up When Buyers Ask AI For Software Recommendations
November 4, 2026·9 min read

How To Show Up When Buyers Ask AI For Software Recommendations

Buyers ask AI for software in six shapes, and each shape is answered from a different kind of page. A 12-prompt test on ChatGPT and Perplexity, and the pages to build.

Types Of Backlinks: Which Ones Still Help Rankings And AI Citations
November 4, 2026·9 min read

Types Of Backlinks: Which Ones Still Help Rankings And AI Citations

The types of backlinks explained from Google's own docs: editorial, guest post, directory, resource, sponsored, UGC, nofollow, forum, PR, image and internal links, and which still help rankings and AI citations.

Do AI Recommendations Lift Branded Search? The Data So Far
November 3, 2026·13 min read

Do AI Recommendations Lift Branded Search? The Data So Far

Do AI recommendations lift branded Google search? What Similarweb, Ahrefs and Semrush data show, where the studies disagree, why it's hard to measure, and how to check your own numbers.

How To Build Backlinks That Help Google Rankings And AI Citations
November 3, 2026·9 min read

How To Build Backlinks That Help Google Rankings And AI Citations

How to build backlinks in 2026, method by method, with an honest time cost for each: mention reclamation, journalist requests, resource pages, broken links, guest posts, directories and data assets.

How To Improve AI Search Rankings For Your SaaS Brand
November 3, 2026·8 min read

How To Improve AI Search Rankings For Your SaaS Brand

We asked ChatGPT's search model and Perplexity ten help desk buying questions. One challenger showed up in 15 of 20 answers, a similar rival in none. What separated them, and the steps that follow for your own brand.

Is Perplexity Good For Marketing? Use Cases, Limits, And Citation Opportunities
November 3, 2026·8 min read

Is Perplexity Good For Marketing? Use Cases, Limits, And Citation Opportunities

Is Perplexity good for marketing? A scorecard of the six marketing jobs Perplexity claims on its own enterprise page, what holds up and what to verify, plus Perplexity as a place to get cited.

How To Monitor AI Citations And Brand Mentions Across AI Search
November 3, 2026·9 min read

How To Monitor AI Citations And Brand Mentions Across AI Search

How to monitor AI citations and brand mentions with the scheduled tasks ChatGPT, Perplexity, Google, Gemini, Claude and Grok now ship, checked against each one's docs, and where they fall short.

Perplexity For Developers: What Dev Teams Need From AI Search
November 3, 2026·9 min read

Perplexity For Developers: What Dev Teams Need From AI Search

We asked Perplexity eight version-sensitive developer questions and checked the answers against official docs. Then we walked through the API change, the Search API, the CLI and the three MCP servers dev teams keep mixing up.

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