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AEO for Legal Services: Getting Cited by ChatGPT for Legal Queries
October 30, 2026·10 min read

AEO for Legal Services: Getting Cited by ChatGPT for Legal Queries

How law firms and legal SaaS earn AI citations without violating ABA rules or UPL: what ChatGPT actually cites, schema, disclaimers, and the review workflow.

AEO for Multi-Location Businesses: Franchises, Chains, and Locations at Scale
October 30, 2026·10 min read

AEO for Multi-Location Businesses: Franchises, Chains, and Locations at Scale

Franchises and chains earn only 1.2% ChatGPT recommendations vs 35.9% Google 3-pack. Multi-location AEO: location pages, GBP at scale, NAP, schema, multi-brand.

AEO for Newsletters and Substack: How Editorial Brands Get Cited
October 30, 2026·10 min read

AEO for Newsletters and Substack: How Editorial Brands Get Cited

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.

AEO for Real Estate: Getting Listed in Property Search AI Answers
October 30, 2026·10 min read

AEO for Real Estate: Getting Listed in Property Search AI Answers

How brokerages and agents earn ChatGPT, Perplexity, Zillow, and Realtor.com AI citations: what AI cites for property queries, Fair Housing, schema, off-site.

Enterprise AEO: How Fortune 500 Brands Should Approach AI Citations
October 30, 2026·10 min read

Enterprise AEO: How Fortune 500 Brands Should Approach AI Citations

Enterprise AEO strategy for Fortune 500: governance, multi-brand portfolios, multi-market rollout, procurement, in-house vs agency, and board-level citation-share reporting.

AEO for Healthcare Brands: HIPAA-Safe Citation Strategies
October 30, 2026·12 min read

AEO for Healthcare Brands: HIPAA-Safe Citation Strategies

How healthcare brands earn ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude, and Gemini citations without violating HIPAA: what AI cites, YMYL/EEAT, medical schema, MLR sign-off.

AEO in an Hour: The Absolute Beginner's Guide to Getting Cited by AI
October 30, 2026·8 min read

AEO in an Hour: The Absolute Beginner's Guide to Getting Cited by AI

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 AEO Terminology Cheat Sheet: 65 Terms Explained
July 14, 2026·10 min read

The AEO Terminology Cheat Sheet: 65 Terms Explained

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.

The Complete AI Crawler List: Every Bot You Need to Allow (or Block) in 2026
July 14, 2026·10 min read

The Complete AI Crawler List: Every Bot You Need to Allow (or Block) in 2026

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.

Robots.txt for AI: The Complete Directive Reference
July 14, 2026·10 min read

Robots.txt for AI: The Complete Directive Reference

The complete robots.txt directive reference for AI crawlers in 2026: every user-agent token, wildcard, precedence rule, and escape hatch that matters.

How to Get Into LLM Training Data (Common Crawl and Beyond)
September 18, 2026·10 min read

How to Get Into LLM Training Data (Common Crawl and Beyond)

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.

The HARO Playbook for AI Citations (2026 Edition)
September 18, 2026·10 min read

The HARO Playbook for AI Citations (2026 Edition)

HARO died, came back, and quietly turned into an AI citation channel. The 2026 playbook: which platforms survived, what to pitch, and how to track AI mentions.

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