Playbooks to rank on Google and get cited by AI search, from the team building the engine.
95 articles published, no gated PDFs, no fluff.

Everyone ships Article and FAQ schema. These ten types are still largely unused, and several map directly onto how answer engines retrieve content.

Featured snippets are the answer box above the results. Win them by answering the question directly in the first sentence and structuring the page to be quoted.

People Also Ask boxes quietly pull clicks from the top of Google. Here is how to find the right questions and structure answers that win a spot in the box.

You can't manage what you don't measure, and rankings won't tell you if AI recommends you. Here are the five metrics that actually track your AI visibility.

Voice search returns one spoken answer, not a list. Here is how voice search optimization works: write like people talk, answer fast, and win the single result.

Your buyers ask ChatGPT for recommendations and it names brands. Here is how to earn a mention through clear content, third-party sources, and consistent facts.

Voice searches return one result, not ten. What decides which local business gets named, and the schema and content that make it yours.

Perplexity cites sources inside its answers. Here is how to get cited by Perplexity with direct answers, fresh factual pages, and a crawlable, trusted site.

You can own the top Google result and still be missing from every AI answer. Here's the gap between ranking and being cited, and how to close it.

Google AI Overviews answer queries before the blue links. Here is how to show up as a cited source with strong rankings, clear answers, and real expertise.

llms.txt is a plain text file that hands AI models a curated map of your best pages. Here is what it does, how to write one, and whether it moves the needle.

AI answers aren't pulled from memory. They're retrieved, filtered and synthesized live. Understanding those three steps tells you exactly what to fix to get cited.
Every playbook here is one we have shipped.AEO + GEO in 2026.
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