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Every OpenAI Publisher Partnership, and How Often ChatGPT Cites Them
Each deal works roughly the same way: the publisher licenses its content to OpenAI, and ChatGPT shows summaries of that content with attribution and a link back to the source. That makes these publishers some of the most visible sites … Read more ›
The 25 Best AEO/GEO Experts to Follow in 2026
Research is how you answer these questions, and how you keep up with what’s changing in AI search. These are the 25 people publishing the most original research on AI search, and the ones worth following. I started with a … Read more ›
Which Types of Mentions Correlate the Strongest With AI Visibility? (260M AI Prompts Analyzed)
But which kind of mention? In our previous research, we analyzed different brand factors alongside AI visibility—including web mentions, anchors, search volume, number of referring domains and so on. This time, we zeroed in on brand mention types. We compared … Read more ›
10 Clearscope Alternatives (Compared on Price, API, and MCP Access)
I compared ten Clearscope alternatives on price per article, API and MCP access, keyword data, and how well they fit an AI content workflow. Read more ›
What Is BLUF? How to Write Bottom Line Up Front (+ Free Rewriter Tool)
BLUF means bottom line up front: put your main point in the first sentence. Here's how to write it, with examples and a free BLUF rewriter. Read more ›
How Stable Are AI Citations? 10 Things We Learned Tracking 37,500 Citations
Key takeaways: Treat citation volatility as normal. It seems to be a built-in trait of AI answers, and it may change significantly with model updates. So, aim to appear more often over time, not to hold every citation without interruption. … Read more ›
Google AI Mode: All You Need to Know
Then, at Google I/O in May 2026, Sundar Pichai called AI Mode “our biggest upgrade to Search ever” and said it had passed 1 billion monthly active users. It’s no longer just an experiment. AI Mode now has its own … Read more ›
AI Discoverability, Page types, and more (September 2026)
We’ve got 5 updates this month, from a brand-new AI Discoverability category in Site Audit to Page types in Site Explorer, and more. Let’s dive in. AI Discoverability issues AI Discoverability is a new issue category in Site Audit. It … Read more ›
Affiliate Marketing: What It Is & How to Start in 2026
You recommend products you genuinely rate. When someone buys through your link, you get a commission. You don’t have to make the product, hold stock, handle shipping, or deal with refunds. In this guide, I’ll show you how to think … Read more ›
Headless Content Marketing: A New (Old) Strategy for Search
Today, your content pages are grist for the AI mill, their contents scraped from the page, blended together with competing pages, and shown to the user—if you’re lucky—in a context and format controlled entirely by a third party. Forgotten is … Read more ›
AI Share of Voice: What It Is, How to Measure It, and What It Actually Tells You
Sigh. Yet another metric marketers have to be raked over the coals for. Jokes aside, AI share of voice can be useful. It tells you how visible your brand is in AI responses compared with your competitors. But the number … Read more ›
How to Automate Content Creation: A Follow-Along Guide
When people hear “automated content creation”, I imagine they picture something like this: Enter a keyword, click a button, and poof! An article is made. From there, they’ll generate 500 articles before the day ends and publish all of them. … Read more ›
How ChatGPT Does Query Fan-Out (15 Million Queries Studied)
We wanted to see for ourselves how ChatGPT retrieves information—and what that means for AI visibility—so we analyzed 66.6 million free, logged-out GPT-5.6 Luna responses and their 15 million fan-out queries from August and September. Only 14.4% of the 66.6 … Read more ›
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