September 18, 2026·8 min read
Google May 2026 Core Update Retrospective: 60 Days Later
The May 2026 core update wrapped June 2. Sixty days of data later: the intent reset, the missing recoveries, and the AI Overviews subplot.
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October 30, 2026·8 min read
Google Search Console's AI Search Data: The Complete Field Guide
Google Search Console finally reports AI search data. What the Generative AI performance report shows, what it hides, and how to read every field correctly.
July 11, 2026·11 min read
Keyword Research Is Dead. Prompt Research Is Here.
Search volume can't see the buyers asking ChatGPT for recommendations. Why keyword research stopped mapping to real demand, and what replaces it.
October 30, 2026·8 min read
Local AEO 2026: Getting Your Local Business Cited by ChatGPT and Claude
Local AEO is a city-by-city game. How to build per-city prompt panels, win AI citations in metros without an office, and track where engines recommend you.
September 18, 2026·8 min read
Local SEO for AI Search 2026: Get Your Business Mentioned in ChatGPT & Perplexity
How local businesses get mentioned in ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Google AI Overviews in 2026, from Business Profile to reviews and entity consistency.
October 30, 2026·9 min read
Pillar Pages Rebuilt for the AI Search Era
AI engines cite chunks, not pages. Here's how to rebuild pillar pages and topic clusters so every section is extractable, with specs and real citation data.
October 30, 2026·8 min read
The Perplexity User Migration: Where Founders Are Going Instead
Perplexity's US mobile DAU fell 65% in six months. Here's where the users actually went, by name, with the data behind each destination and the founder read.
October 30, 2026·13 min read
AI Search Volume: Why Traditional Keyword Tools Miss 60% of Demand
ChatGPT takes 2.5 billion prompts a day and keyword tools can't match most of them to any keyword. The data on AI search volume and the demand you can't see.
October 30, 2026·8 min read
Anthropic Overtakes OpenAI in Business Adoption: The Ranking Implications
Ramp's June data has Anthropic at 41% of US businesses vs OpenAI's 39.5%. What the enterprise overtake means for AI citation strategy in the second half of 2026.
September 18, 2026·6 min read
Claude Sonnet 5 Is Here: The AI Search Implications
Claude Sonnet 5 shipped June 30 with an agentic-search benchmark at the center of the launch. What it means for citations, crawlers, and your docs.
September 18, 2026·8 min read
Gemini 3 Is Live: What It Means for SEO and AEO
Gemini 3 now runs AI Overviews for 2.5 billion users, and top-10 rankings' citation share fell from 76% to 38%. What shipped, and what to do this week.
July 9, 2026·7 min read
Gemini Omni Flash: The Multimodal Model That Changes Citation Sources
Google shipped Omni Flash with native audio on June 30. It's a generation model, but the AEO signal about video and audio citations is loud.
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