AI search is replacing the ten blue links with direct answers. These articles examine how AI-powered search works, what it cites, and what website owners and authors need to change while the ground shifts.
AEOWikipedia matters for AI search, and you can't write your own way onto it. Notability takes real independent press coverage, and the editor route takes months before anyone trusts you. I dropped it and went after earned press instead.
AEOAI Overviews now appear on plain name searches and summarize whatever ranks for you, old complaints included. Check what Google and ChatGPT say about your name, and answer the real questions on your own pages.
AEOQuora used to be the smartest room on the internet, with real experts answering under their real names. Then it paid writers like me for questions, cut that pay to almost nothing, cut its moderators, filled up with AI answers…
AEOReddit runs on unpaid volunteers, sells what its users write to Google and OpenAI, and has turned into a target for bots and marketers because AI search cites it more than almost any other site. Here's why it sucks, and…
AEOClicks on Richard Lowe's site fell for 18 months while impressions held, and the reason was the answer engine. In a live AEO presentation hosted by Robert Rounsavall: training versus retrieval crawlers, why branded mentions beat backlinks, how contradictions make…
AI SearchCommon questions about AI search and answer engine optimization: how answer engines pick sources, what changes for a website, and what moves the needle.
AEOAn industry has grown up selling AI visibility, and much of what it sells has no evidence behind it. Here is what the measurements say, what destroyed three real companies, the one documented recovery, and the short list that survives…
AEOA link used to be a vote and cost nothing to give. AI visibility depends on corroboration from platforms that charge admission, which is a spending filter wearing the costume of a trust signal. Here is what it costs and…
AI SearchA good share of your buyers now describe their problem to a machine and get a paragraph back. There is no page two, and you cannot optimise your way into it.
AI SearchA client told me I came up second on the list an AI engine gave him. He hired me anyway. That detail explains how buyers find professionals now, and why a book is the strongest record you can create.
AEOA training crawl is a machine reading your site to teach a model, and it may never send you a human being. A live query is a person asking a question right now. Only the second one is traffic.
AEOOld posts lose traffic quietly, on two separate clocks: the slow slide down search rankings, and the newer one where a page keeps its ranking and stops being cited in AI answers. Here is how to audit both and repair…
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