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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.
Ahrefs' 1,885-page experiment showed schema alone doesn't lift AI citations. But Person schema plus a verifiable entity graph (sameAs, Wikidata, ORCID, LinkedIn) is now a citation prerequisite. Here's the full 2026 blueprint.
Google's Organization type has quietly absorbed 15+ new fields since 2023. AI engines cross-reference every one to score your brand entity. Here's the full field-by-field playbook, with the sameAs strategy that actually builds a Knowledge Graph entry.
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.
Speakable schema has been Beta at Google for eight years and is ignored by Alexa+, GPT-Live, Perplexity Voice, and Siri AI. But the 40-60 word answer patterns it forces you to write are exactly what every LLM cites. Here's the honest playbook.
The Bing share teams cite is wrong. How Copilot picks sources in 2026, and the concrete steps to earn citations across Microsoft's AI surface.
AEO in one focused hour: baseline your visibility, fix the three on-page blockers, publish one FAQ page, verify robots.txt, and start weekly monitoring.
The complete 2026 AEO glossary: 65 terms across AI search, crawlers, schema markup, citation metrics, and buyer behavior, each defined in a line or two.
31 verified AI crawlers across OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Meta, and more. User-agent strings, robots.txt directives, IP range URLs, and the September 15 default-block change.
The complete robots.txt directive reference for AI crawlers in 2026: every user-agent token, wildcard, precedence rule, and escape hatch that matters.
Thirty specific ChatGPT prompts a SaaS founder can run this afternoon to audit their AEO setup: brand presence, competitor comparison, category leadership, product-specific citations, structural signals, freshness, and more. No enterprise tool required, just a ChatGPT Plus subscription and thirty minutes.
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