MaxAEO Blog
Insights on AI Search Visibility, GEO, and how brands get cited by ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Google AI Overviews.
Does llms.txt Work? Evidence From AI Citation Data
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Does llms.txt work? Matched-pair data from 2,400 domains across eight AI engines shows no AI citation lift. See the evidence and the adopt-or-skip verdict.
What Sources Does ChatGPT Cite? Data From 184,212 Citations
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What sources does ChatGPT cite? We traced 184,212 citations across ChatGPT, Perplexity and Gemini to rank the domains and source types each trusts — and what to fix first.
How to Track AI Referral Traffic in GA4 (ChatGPT, Perplexity & More)
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Track AI referral traffic in GA4: copy-paste regex channel group, new AI Assistant channel limits, dark traffic fixes, and tying ChatGPT mentions to pipeline.
How Often Do AI Answers Change? 90-Day Data From 8 Platforms
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How often do AI answers change? We tracked 1,247 prompts daily across 8 AI platforms for 90 days: recommendation lists turn over every 3–11 days. See the data.
AI Prompt Tracking: Build a Prompt Set From Real Buyer Questions
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AI prompt tracking fails when prompts don’t match buyer language. Build yours from sales calls, support tickets and keyword data — start with our B2B examples.
AI Share of Voice: How to Calculate It and What a Good Score Looks Like
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AI share of voice is your brand’s % of all brand mentions in AI answers. Get the formula, worked example and benchmarks from 2.4M answers — score your brand.
AI Visibility Metrics: 6 KPIs, Formulas & Benchmarks
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The 6 AI visibility metrics that show if ChatGPT, Gemini and Perplexity recommend your brand — with formulas and benchmarks from 200+ brands on 8 AI platforms.
The 6 Best AI Visibility Tools for 2026: Tested Across ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity & Claude (With Bias Disclosed)
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We tested 6 AI visibility tools across ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, Claude and more — with our bias disclosed. Compare MaxAEO, Otterly, Semrush, SE Visible, Profound, and Peec AI.
How to Optimize for AI Search: The GEO Checklist (2026)
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A practical GEO checklist to optimize for AI search in 2026 — structure content for extraction, earn citations, add schema, open up to AI crawlers, and measure what gets you…
How to Get Discovered in AI Search: A Guide to AI Search Visibility (2026)
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Buyers now discover brands by asking AI, not just Googling. Here’s how AI search visibility works, how to get discovered by ChatGPT, Gemini, and Perplexity, and how to see what…