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AEO and GEO guides

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AEO

SEO for ChatGPT: How to Get Recommended

How ChatGPT picks brands, which mode your questions trigger, a 15-minute check for why your site isn't showing up, and what moves each one.

9 min read

AEO

AEO vs GEO vs SEO: What Is Actually Different

AEO and GEO are the same discipline under two names, and SEO is a different one. What transfers, what does not, and what 198 questions showed.

6 min read

GEO

What Is Generative Engine Optimization (GEO)?

GEO is the work of getting your brand named and cited in AI answers. What it is, how engines pick sources, how to do it, and what 198 questions showed.

20 min read

AEO

Best AEO Tools in 2026: 18 Compared

18 AEO tools compared: quick picks by use case, checked prices, and what the same job costs on each tool.

12 min read

AI Visibility

The Best AI Visibility Tools in 2026, Compared on Price and Engines

Which AI visibility tool is best? Quick picks by use case, then 12 tools compared on price, engines and refresh, with prices checked in October 2026.

12 min read

SEO

How to Get Your Business Into "Best Of" Lists and Roundups

How to find the roundups that feed Google and AI answers in your niche, skip the competitor lists, and pitch your way onto the rest.

15 min read

SEO

How to Get Backlinks for Your Business (Without the Hacks)

10 ways a business can earn backlinks and mentions, from studies and roundups to fixing wrong info about you, with emails you can copy.

17 min read

Writing

Query Fan-Out: How ChatGPT Finds Your Page

Query fan-out is when an AI engine turns one question into many hidden searches. How ChatGPT does it, how it reads your page, and what to change.

5 min read

Measurement

Does AI Search Actually Send Traffic?

AI assistants send less referral traffic than Google, and much of their influence never shows up as a click. Here is what to report instead.

4 min read

AEO

How to Get Your Website Cited by AI

What makes an AI engine quote a page, what makes it skip one, and the order to check things in.

6 min read

Research

Which Brands AI Recommends, Measured

Six AI engines were asked 22 buying questions about AI SEO and visibility software, repeatedly, with every answer and cited source recorded.

5 min read

AEO

Why AI Recommends Your Competitor

Six reasons an engine names a rival and not you, how to tell which one you have, and what to do in the first month.

7 min read

AEO

Does ChatGPT Use Backlinks?

Not the way Google does. Mentions on the pages ChatGPT reads matter more than links.

4 min read

Measurement

How to Track Your Brand in ChatGPT

Pick 20 prompts, run each more than once, record what comes back and read the result. A manual method for checking whether ChatGPT names you.

7 min read

AEO

What Is Answer Engine Optimization (AEO)?

What AEO is, how it compares with SEO, the two ways engines pick brands, what works, and how it is measured.

4 min read

Compare

Comparisons and alternatives

Comparison

Semrush AI Visibility Toolkit Review: Price, Limits and Alternatives

The Semrush AI Visibility Toolkit costs $99 a month for 25 prompts on ChatGPT and Google AI Mode. What it covers, what it leaves out, and cheaper options.

5 min read

GEO

The Best Generative Engine Optimization (GEO) Tools in 2026

The best GEO tools in 2026, sorted by the four jobs GEO involves, with prices read from each vendor's site and free tools to start with.

12 min read

Pricing

Writesonic Pricing in 2026

What Writesonic's Starter, Basic and Growth plans include, what each costs per tracked question, and how it compares with other tools.

5 min read

Pricing

Peec AI Pricing in 2026

What Peec AI's Starter, Pro, Advanced and Enterprise plans include, what each costs per tracked question, and how it compares with other tools.

4 min read

Pricing

Profound Pricing in 2026

What Profound's pricing page shows: a free 7 day trial and a custom Enterprise plan, plus how Peak Answer's price compares.

4 min read

Comparison

Writesonic Alternatives: 10 Tools for AI Writing and AI Visibility

Ten Writesonic alternatives, split by job: three for AI writing and seven for AI visibility tracking, with prices read from each vendor's site.

11 min read

Comparison

Peec AI Alternatives: 7 Tools Compared

Seven Peec AI alternatives compared on price, engines and refresh, plus what each does once it has measured you.

10 min read

Tools

AI Visibility Software Pricing 2026: 12 Tools Compared, Free to Enterprise

What AI visibility tools charge, how each one bills, and how to compare plans by cost per 1,000 responses.

5 min read

Comparison

AthenaHQ Alternatives: 6 Tools Compared

AthenaHQ has a free tier and a $295/month Starter plan priced in credits. Six alternatives compared on price, engines and actions.

5 min read

Comparison

BabyLoveGrowth Alternatives: 8 Compared

Eight BabyLoveGrowth alternatives compared on engines, refresh, content writing and CMS publishing, with prices read from each vendor's own site.

7 min read

Comparison

Outrank Alternatives: 5 Tools Compared

Outrank writes and publishes SEO articles for you. Peak Answer, BabyLoveGrowth and Writesonic compared, plus trackers to add alongside it.

5 min read

Comparison

Profound Alternatives for Small Teams: 7 Tools With Public Prices

Seven Profound alternatives with prices you can read up front, compared on engines, refresh and what each one does after it measures.

11 min read

Research

How winnable is your market?

14 markets measured with the same engine the product runs for customers: how small a site can be and still get cited, what a typical incumbent scores, and whether anybody new is getting in. Measured 10/02/2026.

All studies