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AI Citation Snapshot: We Asked 4 AI Engines About 5 Famous Brands. Notion Got Linked 0 Times.
One buyer prompt each for HubSpot, Shopify, Canva, Mailchimp and Notion, run live across ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini and Google AI Overviews. The brands were named in 17 of 20 answers but linked in only 6, and Google's two engines linked none of them.
How to Improve Brand Visibility in AI Search Engines: 8 Fixes You Can Ship This Month
AI engines already have an opinion about your brand. Here is how to check what it is, and the eight fixes, in order, that change it — with the WordPress path for each one.
SEO, GEO, and AEO in 2026: What 20+ Studies Actually Show About AI Citations
Zero-click searches hit 68%. Brand mentions predict AI visibility 3× better than backlinks. Two-thirds of AI Overview citations now come from pages that never reached page one. A research report built from 20+ primary studies — with the disagreements reported, not averaged.
Search Console Now Connects Instagram, TikTok, X, and YouTube: What Platform Properties Actually Show You
On July 7, 2026 Google added a second kind of Search Console property — one that isn't a website. You can now verify an Instagram, TikTok, X, or YouTube account and see the queries pulling people to your posts. Here's how to set it up, what the three reports really contain, the two features it gets confused with, and the half of your visibility it still can't see.
FAQ Schema in 2026: Google Retired the Rich Result — Here's Why You Should Still Ship It
Google stopped showing FAQ rich results on May 7, 2026, which removed the only reason most sites ever added FAQ schema. The markup didn't stop working — its audience changed. Here's what FAQPage does now, the rules that keep it valid, and how to write answers that answer engines actually quote.
WordPress Redirect Plugin Guide 2026: Best Free Options, 301s Done Right, and the 404s AI Bots See
Every WordPress site accumulates broken URLs, and a redirect plugin is how you keep the link credit when they move. Here's the honest 2026 comparison — Redirection, Rank Math, Yoast Premium, and the rest — how to set up a 301 with or without a plugin, and the blind spot every one of them shares: none can tell you which 404s AI crawlers are hitting.
Yoast vs Rank Math for AI Search in 2026: Both Ship llms.txt, Neither Measures Anything
Both of the big WordPress SEO plugins now generate llms.txt for free — and neither can tell you whether a single AI engine has read the file, crawled the page, or cited you in an answer. Here's the honest feature split, where Rank Math is ahead, and the measuring gap both leave open.
AI Crawlers Explained: What ClaudeBot, GPTBot, OAI-SearchBot, and 27 Other Bots Want From Your Website
Strange user agents in your server logs — ClaudeBot, GPTBot, OAI-SearchBot, PerplexityBot? Here's what every major AI crawler actually does with your content, which ones feed citations versus training data, how to verify the real thing, and how to decide bot-by-bot whether to block or allow.
WordPress robots.txt: The Complete 2026 Guide (Find It, Edit It, and Stop Blocking AI Search)
WordPress generates a robots.txt you've probably never edited — and in 2026 one stale rule in it can make you invisible to ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Gemini. Here's where the file lives, how to edit it safely, what a good one looks like, and how to audit it against every AI crawler for free.
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