A new Performance report — “Generative AI features” (Beta) — is live in Search Console. We pulled it up on our own property to show you exactly what it tracks and why it matters for anyone doing AEO/GEO work. What we’re looking at Google Search Console has rolled out a dedicated report under Performance called…
The llms.txt Myth What actually gets brands cited by ChatGPT — a 6-brand teardown Every AEO checklist published this year says the same thing in the same order: write an llms.txt file, structure your content for AI crawlers, and the citations will follow. We wanted to know if that’s actually true. So we picked six…
Why Robots.txt Is Suddenly a GEO Problem, Not Just an SEO One For twenty years, robots.txt existed to manage one relationship: your site and Googlebot. Get it wrong and you lost search rankings. That risk hasn’t gone away, but it’s no longer the only one. Answer engines like ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Google’s AI Overviews now…
Why This Matters More Than Your Ranking Position Now Does Google’s AI Overviews now sit above the traditional blue links for a large share of commercial and informational searches. For an e-commerce brand, this changes the actual question worth asking. It’s no longer just “where do we rank?” — it’s “are we one of the…
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,…
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….
You sell online. Your customers are everywhere. So why does local SEO matter for your e-commerce brand? Because “everywhere” still has a local address. When a customer in Manchester searches for “handmade leather bags UK,” they get local results — Google Business Profiles, map packs, and localised organic rankings. When a brand in Dubai targets…
Most businesses set up their Google Business Profile once and forget it exists. They fill in the basics — address, phone number, hours — and assume the job is done. In 2026, that approach is a competitive liability. Google’s local search landscape has shifted. AI Overviews now surface in local queries. Google Maps results increasingly…