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Ranking no longer means visibility in AI search. Measure GEO properly: a four-layer metric framework, a free 20-30 prompt tracking method, GA4 AI-referral setup, and Profound, Otterly, Semrush and Ahrefs compared.
AI engines cite earned media, reviews and Wikipedia more than your own site. A 2026 off-site GEO guide on earning the third-party citations that ChatGPT, Gemini and Perplexity actually trust.
The European Commission's 16 July 2026 DMA decision forces Google to hand rivals the ranking, query, click and view data behind its 90%-plus European search share. The eligibility bar, the anonymisation rules and
Google announced information agents at I/O on 19 May 2026: background agents that scan blogs, news and social posts 24/7 and send users a synthesized update instead of a link. Here is the publisher response, including
The AOP study found Google referrals to eight UK publishing groups fell 7.1% in a quarter. That quarter was Q2 2025. The format splits are the durable finding, and they say something narrower than the headline.
Google's own July 2026 guidance says GEO and AEO are still just SEO, and tells you to ignore most of the hacks being sold. The measurable prize is real: an AI Overview citation is worth 120% more organic clicks.
One GEO strategy does not win all three AI engines. Only 11% of domains overlap between ChatGPT and Perplexity, and each engine draws on a different index. Here are three platform-specific playbooks for 2026.
AI Overviews cut organic click-through 61% and push zero-click searches to 83%, yet brands cited in those answers earn 35% more organic clicks. eCorpIT's GEO and AEO service is built to get your brand cited and to track
Since May 27, 2026, Google Preferred Sources feed AI Overviews and AI Mode, and chosen sites get twice the clicks. This guide shows how to check eligibility, build the deeplink and add the button.
Google does not use llms.txt for rankings or AI Overviews, confirmed on the record in 2026. But Perplexity and Claude retrieve it, and coding agents depend on it. What llms.txt actually does, who it helps, and whether
Google's AI Mode breaks one query into many hidden sub-queries, then synthesises an answer. That is query fan-out, and it is why a connected topic cluster now beats a single-keyword page. Here is how it works and how
Zero-click search hit 68% in 2026 and AI Overviews are collapsing click-through rates. Here is why most Gurugram content marketing fails now, and a practical AEO playbook to get cited by AI answer engines.
Local results turn on relevance, distance and prominence, with your primary GBP category alone carrying ~32% of ranking weight. A 2026 playbook for Gurugram businesses to win the Google Maps local pack.
Ahrefs analysed 4 million AI Overview URLs and found just 38% of cited pages rank in the top 10, down from 76% seven months earlier. Ranking #1 still helps, but it is no longer necessary or sufficient. Here is what
AI Overviews now appear on about 48% of Google searches. The complete 2026 guide to SEO, AEO, GEO and AIO: what each means, how AI engines pick what to cite, and the integrated playbook to win.
