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Anthropic's September 2026 threat report details nine disrupted influence operations running fake news sites through Claude. What it means for AI search.
Averi's data puts AI-citation inflection at piece 11 and full traction at piece 14. Here's the 90-day content calendar template for a SaaS publishing 25-40 posts a quarter, with the mix, cadence, refresh discipline, and traps that actually earn AI citations.
Fifteen verified AEO anti-patterns with the citation-loss numbers behind them. Opaque URLs cost 8.7 percentage points. Unicode bold kills ChatGPT retrieval by 58%. Chained redirects dump you from AI Overviews. Fix the mistakes, keep the citations.
Digital Bloom's data found quotations lift AI citations 37% on Perplexity and 22% on ChatGPT. Muck Rack's Generative Pulse shows LLMs actively track named journalists. Here's how to run interviews that produce citable quotes.
10 posts in 2 weeks won't guarantee AI citations, but it will get you a foothold. Here's the honest sprint framework with the 10 post archetypes that get cited, the daily cadence, and the measurement window.
AI crawlers only tolerate 3-5 redirect hops versus Googlebot's 10. Sub-domain-to-subfolder consolidation lifts AI citations 2-5x. Here's the 2026 migration checklist for preserving citation share when you move a site.
Length is a red herring. URL decides citation before body is read. Engagement doesn't predict. Here's the anatomical dissection of what actually gets an article cited across ChatGPT, Perplexity, Google AI Mode, and AI Overviews in 2026, backed by data from 200M+ AI citations.
G2 lost 85% of its programmatic traffic since 2023, but Wise, Zapier, and Salesforge are still winning. Here's the honest 2026 playbook for programmatic AEO that survives spam updates and earns AI citations.
Google killed FAQ rich results in May 2026. AI engines still cite FAQ content 41% of the time. The structure that wins position zero in 2026 answers.
Over half of ChatGPT users speak a non-English language. International AEO: per-engine citation rates, Baidu/Yandex/Naver, hreflang, and multilingual schema.
How Substack, Beehiiv, and Ghost newsletters earn AI citations: the paywall problem, RSS discovery, author E-E-A-T, editorial schema, and cross-platform strategy.
Retrieval gets you cited this month. Training data gets you remembered for years. How Common Crawl feeds the models, what survives the filters, and how to check you're in.
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