MaxAEO Blog
Insights on AI Search Visibility, GEO, and how brands get cited by ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Google AI Overviews.
Content Strategy for AI Mode: Which Pages Survive the Fan-Out
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A content strategy for AI Mode lives or dies on facet coverage. We tracked 19,412 AI Mode citations for eight weeks to find when one deep hub beats five narrow…
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.