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The Trust Signals ChatGPT Uses to Pick Sources (Reverse Engineered)
October 30, 2026·13 min read

The Trust Signals ChatGPT Uses to Pick Sources (Reverse Engineered)

A developer read ChatGPT's network traffic. Practitioners mapped 400,000 pages. Here's what actually decides which sources ChatGPT trusts, fetches, and cites.

Ahrefs Bot Analytics Launched: How to Read the AI Crawler Data
September 18, 2026·8 min read

Ahrefs Bot Analytics Launched: How to Read the AI Crawler Data

Ahrefs shipped Bot Analytics in April. What the four reports actually tell you, the killer 23x conversion stat, and how to read the crawl-to-referral gap.

The Perplexity User Migration: Where Founders Are Going Instead
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.

Semrush Enterprise AIO: The AEO Toolkit War Is On
October 30, 2026·7 min read

Semrush Enterprise AIO: The AEO Toolkit War Is On

Adobe paid $1.9B for Semrush, and Enterprise AIO is the trophy. What it does well, where the community is angry, and how challengers should read the moment.

Anthropic Overtakes OpenAI in Business Adoption: The Ranking Implications
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.

Reverse-Engineered: 500 Perplexity Citations and What They Have in Common
October 30, 2026·13 min read

Reverse-Engineered: 500 Perplexity Citations and What They Have in Common

We tagged 500 Perplexity citations by domain, format, age, and rank. Five patterns emerged, and only 11% of them look anything like ChatGPT's picks.

9 Best AEO Tools in 2026: Which One Actually Gets You Cited?
October 30, 2026·12 min read

9 Best AEO Tools in 2026: Which One Actually Gets You Cited?

We compared 9 AEO tools for tracking and improving AI search citations. Here's which ones work, what they cost, and who should use each one.

Share of Voice in AI Search: The New Metric That Replaces Rankings
October 30, 2026·8 min read

Share of Voice in AI Search: The New Metric That Replaces Rankings

Why traditional search rankings are useless for AI search, how Share of Voice works as the replacement metric, and how to measure yours across ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude, and Gemini.

How to Track & Increase Your Brand Mentions Across Every AI Search Engine
September 18, 2026·8 min read

How to Track & Increase Your Brand Mentions Across Every AI Search Engine

A step-by-step system for monitoring your brand across ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude, Gemini, and Copilot, plus the content strategies that actually drive more citations.

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