MaxAEO Blog
Insights on AI Search Visibility, GEO, and how brands get cited by ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Google AI Overviews.

Content Chunking for AI Search: Passage Engineering for Chunks That Survive Retrieval
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Content chunking for AI search breaks when retrieval lifts a passage off its page. Passage engineering keeps chunks citable—see the rewrites and test inside.

How AI Search Retrieval Works: Embeddings, Chunking, and Reranking for Marketers
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How AI search retrieval works, explained for marketers: embeddings, chunking, reranking, and which stage each AEO tactic targets. See where your pages drop out.

How Much of a Long Page Do AI Models Use? Page Length and AI Citations
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We put one claim at five depths in long pages and tracked which reached AI answers. Get the page length and AI citations rule and where to place your best…

Syndicated Content and AI Citations: Which Copy Wins the Credit
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AI often cites a syndicated copy, not your original. See which version wins syndicated content AI citations — and how to track and win the credit back.

Gated Content and AI Search: What Happens to the Whitepaper Behind the Form
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Gated content AI search is nearly blind: email forms, paywalls, and login walls block the crawlers that quote you. See which gates to drop—and keep your leads.

AI Recommendation Bias: What Actually Tilts an AI Shortlist
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AI recommendation bias decides which brands AI names before you optimize. Our 8-engine field study quantifies four tilts with per-engine data—see the numbers.

Why AI Recommends Free Tools Over Paid Products (and How to Compete)
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AI recommends free tools more than paid ones. See the free/open-source skew by category—and the paid-product playbook that narrows it. Track your AI visibility.

Does PR Affect AI Search Visibility? Measuring Launch Spike Decay
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Does PR affect AI search visibility? We tracked 41 funding and launch events across eight AI surfaces — lift peaks on day 6 and halves by day 19. See the…

What Makes AI Recommend a Brand? A 90-Day Study of 512 SaaS Brands and 8 AI Surfaces
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What makes AI recommend a brand? Our 90-day study of 512 B2B SaaS brands correlates GitHub stars, reviews, traffic, and third-party consensus against real AI mention rates. See which signals…

AI Search Optimization Platform: Definition, Features, and Selection Framework
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AI search optimization platform guide for teams choosing tools: features, metrics, workflows, and a weighted scorecard. Compare options with confidence.