September 19, 2026·8 min read
How To Use AI Search Queries From Google Search Console Without Overfitting
AI-shaped queries are showing up in Search Console. How to extract the intent signal, cluster it safely, and dodge the overfitting traps.
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September 19, 2026·8 min read
ChatGPT Search Prompts In Google Search Console: What They Mean For SEO
Prompt-shaped queries are showing up in Search Console. Where they come from, what the OpenAI-Google scraping lawsuit changed, and how to read them.
September 19, 2026·9 min read
Does Blocking AI Crawlers Stop Perplexity From Citing Your Content?
Mostly no. Blocking PerplexityBot removes you from its index, but on-demand fetches and third-party paths remain. What blocking actually changes.
September 19, 2026·9 min read
How To Infer The Questions ChatGPT And Perplexity Are Answering For Your Market
AI engines don't publish query logs. Seven inference methods that reconstruct the question space anyway, and how to turn it into a content map.
September 19, 2026·9 min read
How To Optimize Your Website For AI Search: Structure, Sources, And Brand Signals
The three optimization pillars that decide AI citations: page structure engines can lift, sources that make claims citable, and brand signals retrieval trusts.
October 30, 2026·9 min read
How To Promote A Startup Online When Google Is Not The Only Search Engine
A channel guide for founders now that discovery splits across Google, AI engines, directories, and communities, with a bootstrapped 90-day sequence.
October 30, 2026·10 min read
AI Search Readiness Checklist For B2B SaaS Websites
A five-layer AI search readiness checklist: crawler access, rendering, extraction structure, entity trust, and measurement, with pass criteria.
September 18, 2026·9 min read
Is llms.txt Worth It After ChatGPT 5.6?
We tested llms.txt on 12 sites for 90 days and got nothing. After GPT-5.6 rewired retrieval, here's the honest verdict on the file everyone still asks about.
September 18, 2026·8 min read
How to Publish AI-Optimized Content to WordPress
Getting AI-search-ready content into WordPress: what the site needs, the three publishing paths, a per-post checklist, and the pitfalls to avoid.
October 30, 2026·8 min read
How Long Does It Take AI Search Engines To Learn A Brand?
Three separate clocks decide when AI search knows your brand: retrieval in days, corroboration in months, model training in cycles. The real timeline.
September 17, 2026·9 min read
Reddit Citations After ChatGPT 5.6: What Changed For AI Search
The machinery behind ChatGPT's Reddit citation collapse: how retrieval fan-out changed after GPT-5.6, why Reddit rose first, and what it predicts.
July 18, 2026·10 min read
How to Interview Experts for AEO Content That Gets Cited
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.
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