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The GEO-is-dead / SEO-is-dead / AEO-is-the-new-thing acronym cycle is exhausting and mostly wrong. Here's the honest read on what's actually working in AI-era search optimization in H2 2026, why the acronym you use matters much less than the tactics you ship, and what a serious answer to 'what's next?' actually looks like.
Clarity's Bot Analytics now shows exactly which AI crawlers ignore your robots.txt, free, from server-side CDN logs. What the report shows, why compliance visibility matters now, and the response checklist.
The honest VideoObject blueprint: required properties, Clip and SeekToAction markup, the transcript bridge, and what video schema can't do for AI citations.
ChatGPT, Perplexity, and AI Overviews re-index on different clocks. The refresh signals that actually work, the ones that are cosmetic, and what to refresh first.
Google shipped the Open Knowledge Format on June 12 with zero fanfare. What the spec contains, the MCP and llms.txt map, and an honest read on the SEO angle.
A free AEO audit scorecard you can run in 30 minutes with just a browser. Grade your site across six categories and get an AI-search readiness score out of 25.
Where AI search is heading in 2026-2027, the hard numbers behind the shift, and what businesses should do now to stay visible as the market fragments.
Glossary pages are the cheapest way to own your category's definitions in AI answers. Term selection, entry structure, DefinedTerm schema, and measurement.
Seventeen small on-page AEO tweaks, grouped by effort, with the evidence behind each one. Flip the right switches this weekend and citations follow.
We added llms.txt to 12 sites and tracked AI citations for 90 days. Here's the before-and-after data, and what actually moved the needle (not the file).
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.
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.
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