MaxAEO Blog
Insights on AI Search Visibility, GEO, and how brands get cited by ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Google AI Overviews.
Why AI Engines Give Different Answers: A 3,600-Answer Breakdown
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Why AI engines give different answers about your brand: 3,600 tracked answers show retrieval causes 54% of divergence, model behavior 46%. See the four-layer breakdown and what fixes each.
Which AI Engines to Track — and Which You Can Safely Ignore
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Not all eight AI engines earn a dashboard slot. Data from 1.9M tracked answers shows which AI engines to track daily, weekly, and quarterly — plus the scoring formula to…
Claude AI Brand Recommendations: How They Differ From ChatGPT and Perplexity
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Claude AI brand recommendations name 48% fewer brands and hedge twice as often as ChatGPT. See the 11,520-answer panel data and what to fix first.
Cross-Engine AI Visibility Consensus: What Sudden Agreement Means
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Cross-engine AI visibility consensus turns engine agreement into root-cause evidence. What 1,204 tracked step changes across 8 AI engines reveal about causes.
Sources Cited Across AI Engines: An Eight-Platform Overlap Study
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Which sources cited across AI engines overlap? We tracked 607,318 citations on 8 platforms: just 1.9% of URLs win six or more. See the five shared traits.
What Actually Improves AI Visibility: Proving Which Change Won the Citation
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What actually improves AI visibility? A 630,000-run null test found 56% of reported AEO wins sit inside normal noise. Learn the evidence bar that proves cause.
How Long for AI to Update Answers After a Page Change
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How long for AI to update answers after an edit? A 312-edit panel with daily sampling gives per-engine medians, false-negative rates by check date, and the exact day a null…
AI Visibility Sample Size: How Many Prompts and Runs to Trust
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AI visibility sample size, settled with real numbers: 23,040 tracked answers show why 200 prompts × 3 runs beats 20 × 30. Get the math and copy the design.
AEO Holdout Test: How to Run a Control Group With One Brand
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An AEO holdout test isolates what actually moved your AI citations. Four single-brand control designs, noise-floor data from 63 tests, sizing tables, and a six-week protocol.
Multi-Turn AI Search Visibility: What Single-Prompt Monitoring Misses
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Multi-turn AI search visibility decays fast: across 1,200 tracked buying chats, only 19% of turn-1 brands survived to turn 8. See how to measure and fix it.