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Search & GEO

How search is being rewritten by AI answer engines: generative engine optimization, AI citations, crawler policy, and what still earns visibility in Google and ChatGPT alike.

12 articles
Generative Engine Optimization: How to Get Cited by ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Google AI ModePillar

Generative Engine Optimization: How to Earn AI Citations

Search is becoming synthesis. If ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Google's AI Overviews don't cite you, you're invisible, and the playbook is not the SEO playbook you already know.

17 minJune 11, 2026
Cloudflare Is Rewiring GEO: Block, Charge, or Allow AI CrawlersSearch & GEO

Cloudflare Is Rewiring GEO: Block, Charge, or Allow AI Crawlers

Your robots.txt says allow, but Cloudflare's edge decides first. Here's how to audit the config that quietly governs your AI citations.

11 minJuly 1, 2026
Facebook AI Mode Grounds Answers in the Social Graph. Publishers Need a New GEO Play.Search & GEO

Facebook AI Mode Cites Your Friends' Posts. Here's the GEO Play

Meta's billion-user Muse Spark rollout makes public Facebook posts the citation layer for AI search, opening a social-graph GEO surface no one has optimized for yet.

10 minJune 26, 2026
The GEO Playbook: Getting Cited by AI EnginesSearch & GEO

The GEO Playbook: Getting Cited by AI Engines

A complete operating manual for earning citations in ChatGPT, Perplexity, Google AI Overviews, and Gemini without confusing GEO with old SEO theater.

25 minJune 23, 2026
Static HTML vs JavaScript Rendering: Why AI Crawlers Can't See Half Your ContentSearch & GEO

Static HTML vs JavaScript Rendering: The AI Crawler Gap

Most AI crawlers fetch raw HTML and never run your JavaScript, so client-rendered pages reach answer engines blank. Here's how to fix it.

9 minJune 18, 2026
AI Hallucinated Citations in Court: How Fake Case Law Gets Caught and PunishedSearch & GEO

AI Hallucinated Citations in Court: 2026 Sanctions Rules

A federal judge just cancelled a trial and barred two lawyers over AI-fabricated case law. Here's how it gets caught, what it costs, and the cite-check protocol that keeps it off your filings.

10 minJune 17, 2026
GEO vs SEO: what actually changes when you optimize for answer enginesSearch & GEO

GEO vs SEO: What Changes When You Optimize for AI

The technical foundation stays the same. The unit of value moves from a ranked page to a cited passage, and that changes almost everything downstream.

9 minJune 15, 2026
Block or allow AI crawlers? GPTBot, ClaudeBot, and the Cloudflare default-block decisionSearch & GEO

Block or Allow AI Crawlers? GPTBot, ClaudeBot, Cloudflare

A 2026 operator's playbook for separating training crawlers you should block from retrieval bots that keep you citable.

16 minJune 15, 2026
Schema.org for answer engines: the structured data that wins AI citations in 2026Search & GEO

Schema.org for AI Citations: What Actually Works in 2026

The largest controlled study found JSON-LD didn't lift AI Overview citations. Here's where structured data still earns its keep, and the markup that does the work.

11 minJune 15, 2026
How to measure AI share of voice across ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Google AI OverviewsSearch & GEO

AI Share of Voice: How to Measure It Across AI Engines

A practitioner's blueprint for tracking citations, mentions, and discovery gaps inside the answer engines that now intercept your traffic.

11 minJune 15, 2026
Llms.txt in mid-2026: does the AI-crawler manifest actually get you cited?Search & GEO

Llms.txt Explained: Does It Actually Get You AI Citations?

The evidence says no for answer engines, yes for coding agents. Here's how to tell which one you're optimizing for.

10 minJune 15, 2026
Geo-aware AI search: how Grounding with Google Maps rewires what assistants answerSearch & GEO

Geo-Aware AI Search: How Maps Grounding Rewires AI Answers

Location resolution now happens before retrieval in every major AI search stack, and that ordering decides which answers your users see.

11 minJune 12, 2026