Citations
Executive SummaryAI answer engines do not discover brands by crawling random websites. They pull from a concentrated set of trusted publishers, directories, review platforms, and community forums that have already earned a place in their retrieval corpus.Every industry has its own set of "kingmaker domains": 15 to
ChatGPT
Executive SummaryChatGPT and other AI engines cannot reliably cite your website if your technical infrastructure blocks crawlers, lacks structured data, or buries answers too deep in your content.You can run a basic AI readability check in under 30 minutes using five free tools: your robots.txt file, Google Search
Citations
Executive Summary HowTo schema and Article schema send fundamentally different signals to AI engines. Applying the wrong one to your content is one of the most common and costly structured data mistakes. HowTo schema is built for procedural, step-by-step content. Article schema is built for editorial, informational content. The distinction
AEO
Executive SummaryChatGPT does not rank pages — it synthesizes answers. A product page built for Google keyword rankings will not automatically earn AI recommendations; it requires a different structure entirely.Three layers determine whether ChatGPT recommends your product: technical accessibility (can the AI read your page?), content structure (does the page
Executive SummaryAI answer engines (ChatGPT, Perplexity, Google AI Overviews) now handle over 35% of all search queries, a 120% increase from 2023 levels, and they pull from entirely different signals than traditional search.AEO is not SEO with a new coat of paint. It requires a distinct technical foundation, different
Executive Summaryllms.txt is a plain-text file that lives at the root of your website and tells AI crawlers what your site is about, which pages matter, and how to read your content efficiently.As of May 2026, Google's Chrome Lighthouse now includes a dedicated "Agentic Browsing&
Service
How Windgrove Billing Works at a Glance Before you read further, here is the short version: * Windgrove does not use hidden charges. Every fee is agreed upon before work begins. * You will always know what you are paying for. Scope and pricing are defined upfront, in plain language. * In limited
Tracking
Executive Summary TL;DR — four things to know before you read on:Log files are the only reliable source of truth. GA4 and most analytics platforms miss the majority of AI crawler activity. Server logs or CDN logs capture every request, including bots that never execute JavaScript.The cheapest functional
AEO
B2B SaaS buyers are no longer starting their research on Google. According to G2's 2025 buyer research, 87% of software buyers say answer engines changed how they research solutions, and 51% now default to AI chat for software shortlisting. When a VP of Operations asks ChatGPT "what&
Leads
Executive Summary AI tools like ChatGPT and Perplexity are sending inbound leads to your website right now. Most businesses have no idea. GA4 buries this traffic inside generic "Referral" or misfiles it as "Direct," making an entire acquisition channel invisible. This article shows you exactly how
Agencies
AEO is now a distinct buying category in Canadian search marketing. Not every agency offering it was built for it. This guide ranks 10 Canadian agencies by one criterion that most roundups ignore: whether AI visibility is their core operating model, or a service line bolted onto a traditional SEO
AEO
AEO competitor benchmarking is the process of systematically measuring how often your competitors appear in AI-generated answers, which queries they own, and what signals are driving their citations, so you can close the gap or pull ahead. Executive SummaryAI search engines like ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Google AI Overviews process an