Marketers, website owners, and agencies are all suddenly talking about Generative Engine Optimization and Answer Engine Optimization. Before adding to the noise, we did the research — pulled the primary sources, checked the earnings filings, read the independent studies — to separate what’s actually happening from what’s just being sold. Here’s what the numbers say,…
How community platforms quietly became the new social proof layer for ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, and Google AI Overviews — and why most brands are optimizing for the wrong kind of trust. The Homepage Testimonial Is Dead. Long Live the Thread You Never Saw. For twenty years, social proof meant something you controlled. A curated testimonial….
The 2026 AI Search Readiness Audit Checklist | Alneeko Technologies ALNEEKO 0 / 20 checked Free Self-Audit Tool · Alneeko Technologies The 2026 AI SearchReadiness Audit Checklist A 20-point diagnostic for e-commerce brands to check how visible they really are to Google AI Overviews, ChatGPT, and Perplexity — before you hire anyone to fix it….
AEO and GEO are not the same discipline, and conflating them is the single biggest reason e-commerce brands lose visibility inside AI-generated answers. AEO optimizes for machine comprehension of your product data; GEO optimizes for machine trust in your brand entity. Both are now prerequisites for surviving the shift away from the ten blue links….
Internal Linking Analysis, DefinedInternal linking analysis is the process of auditing how a website’s pages connect to one another to evaluate three things at once: how link equity flows to priority pages (Technical SEO), how clearly topics are consolidated for question-answering systems (AEO), and how easily AI crawlers and LLM retrieval pipelines can traverse and…
A 2026 technical audit framework for Shopify stores — built for both Google rankings and AI search visibility (ChatGPT, Perplexity, Google AI Overviews) QUICK ANSWERShopify SEO in 2026 requires fixing 15 recurring technical issues: duplicate titles from theme/app conflicts, uncanonicalized collection and variant URLs, bloated JavaScript from apps, missing or incomplete JSON-LD schema, thin collection…
The rules of web discovery are undergoing a massive shift. Users are increasingly turning to AI assistants—like ChatGPT Search, Perplexity, Claude, and Gemini—to find information, compare products, and make purchasing decisions. Traditional SEO practices like keyword stuffing and backlink building are no longer enough. To survive in this new era, your website needs to be…
Quick Answer You can verify your brand’s AI citation status for free by manually running a fixed set of brand, category, and comparison prompts inside ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and Perplexity, then logging whether your brand is mentioned, linked, or cited as a source. Repeat weekly using the same prompts to track change over time. Why…
Why This Guide Exists AI assistants — ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude, Gemini — now answer millions of questions every day. Behind every answer is a RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation) pipeline that scans the web, pulls chunks of content, and synthesizes a reply. If your content cannot be cleanly extracted, chunked, and cited, it is invisible to these…
Not long ago, measuring your brand’s Share of Voice (SOV) was simple. You counted how many keywords you ranked for versus your competitors, or how many ad impressions you captured in your category. A higher number meant more visibility. More visibility meant more clicks. More clicks meant more revenue. That model still has value —…