November 5, 2026·9 min read
How To Track Published Articles and AI Search Results Over Time
How to track each published article over time: indexing, rankings, AI citations and conversions, with a clear timeline for what to expect and when to act.
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November 5, 2026·9 min read
Website Copywriting That Ranks On Google And Gets Quoted By AI
Website copywriting for homepages, product pages, pricing pages and about pages: how to write plain, specific copy that readers can scan, Google can rank and AI answers can quote.
November 5, 2026·9 min read
Why Listicle SEO Is Losing Power In AI Citations
Listicles still get cited by AI engines, but self-promotional best-of lists often send the recommendation to a rival. What changed in 2026 and what works now.
November 4, 2026·10 min read
How A/B Testing A Landing Page Affects SEO Rankings And Conversions
A/B testing a landing page won't hurt SEO rankings if you split traffic the right way. Google's four rules, what AI crawlers see, and how to test safely.
November 4, 2026·11 min read
AI Feed vs llms.txt: What Actually Helps AI Engines Understand Your Website?
"AI feed" covers at least four different things, from OpenAI's product feed to Microsoft's NLWeb. We checked which ones an engine documents reading, compared them with llms.txt, and tested what shopping answers cite.
November 4, 2026·8 min read
How To Write Blog Introductions That Hook Readers And Get Quoted By AI
How to write blog introductions that keep readers and get quoted by AI answers: what reading research says, five intro formulas with before-and-after examples, and the mistakes to cut.
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.
November 4, 2026·13 min read
Click-Through Rate By Position In 2026: How Far CTR Has Fallen
Google click-through rate by position in 2026 from Advanced Web Ranking, First Page Sage, Ahrefs, Seer, Backlinko and Pew: how far CTR has fallen with AI Overviews, and why the studies disagree.
November 4, 2026·8 min read
Google AI Mode For Marketers: How Agentic Search Changes SEO Planning
Google AI Mode now books tables, calls businesses and checks out purchases for people. What each agentic feature does and when it launched, where the agents get their data, and how to change your SEO plan.
November 4, 2026·11 min read
Why Make It Sound More Human Is A Bad AI Content Prompt
We tested "make it sound more human" against a real brief. The prompt added comfort sentences instead of substance, and a second humanizing pass broke the length limit.
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.
November 4, 2026·9 min read
Types Of Keywords In SEO And How Each One Shows Up In AI Search
The main types of keywords in SEO, by intent, length, brand, question and location, with what Google's results and AI Overviews look like for each in October 2026.
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