Playbooks to rank on Google and get cited by AI search, from the team building the engine.
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You published a solid guide. It ranks on page one of Google. And yet when you ask ChatGPT or Perplexity the exact question your article answers, your site is nowhere in the response. Some competitor…
You published a solid blog post. It ranks on page one. Traffic used to follow. Lately it doesn't, or not as much, and you can't quite say why. Here's part of the reason, and it sits at the heart of G…
Fourteen AI SEO prompts you can copy today, grouped by job, each paired with the free RankNexus tool that runs the same task on real search data instead of a guess.

Getting named inside an AI answer comes down to a brand the models can identify without guessing, answers a model can quote in one sentence, and enough agreement from other sites to back it up. Here is the working plan.

Reddit is one of the most-cited sources in AI answers. Here is how RankNexus turns rising Reddit conversation into scored keyword opportunities, drafted pages and citation alerts.

Your brand is already being mentioned without links. Reclaiming those, plus the data-led campaigns and podcast routes that earn authority honestly.

ASO has moved past keywords and screenshots. The features that now drive installs, and how app content is becoming searchable outside the stores.

Amazon ranks for revenue per search, not relevance. The signals that decide placement, and why external traffic now matters more than it used to.

Short-form platforms are search engines with their own indexes. What their algorithms read, and how to make videos findable rather than just watchable.

AI engines cite Reddit, YouTube and forums heavily. Real presence in those communities now does what backlinks did for SEO. Here's how to build it honestly.

Third-party cookies are gone as a targeting foundation. The exchanges that make people volunteer data, and the infrastructure that makes it usable.

Being on page one used to be the whole game. Now it's the first rung. Here's the three-step ladder from ranking to being the brand AI recommends.
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