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Practical articles on SEO audits, technical fixes, AI search visibility and backlinks, written to be checked against primary sources and kept up to date.
AI Overviews optimization: what Google says vs the data
What Google says it takes to appear in AI Overviews, how five click-through studies disagree and why, and which optimization steps the evidence supports.
geo · Nov 3, 2026
AI visibility tools: what they measure and which to use
AI visibility tools sorted by job: monitoring mentions, auditing crawler access, tracking citations and traffic, and prompt research. Free and paid options.
ai-visibility · Nov 3, 2026
Answer engine optimization tools: free and paid options
A neutral roundup of answer engine optimization tools: six free options and six paid trackers, with platforms, prices and limits checked in November 2026.
aeo · Nov 3, 2026
ChatGPT SEO: what it means and what to do
ChatGPT SEO explained through seven common myths, each checked against OpenAI's documentation and published studies, plus what actually helps.
geo · Nov 3, 2026
Ecommerce SEO audit checklist
Ecommerce SEO audit checklist for online stores: faceted navigation, product schema, variants, out-of-stock pages, site search, Core Web Vitals and AI.
audits · Nov 3, 2026
Generative engine optimization tools compared
Twelve generative engine optimization tools in one table: what each measures, AI platforms covered, free tier and starting price, checked in November 2026.
geo · Nov 3, 2026
How to run an SEO audit with Google Search Console
A step-by-step Search Console audit: page indexing, performance, the generative AI report, Core Web Vitals, links and removals, and the gaps it leaves.
audits · Nov 3, 2026
How to get cited by ChatGPT: a step-by-step tutorial
Seven steps to earn ChatGPT citations: crawler access, firewall checks, search eligibility, titles that match sub-questions, quotable passages and tracking.
ai-visibility · Nov 3, 2026
Local SEO audit checklist
A local SEO audit checklist covering Google Business Profile, NAP consistency, location pages, LocalBusiness schema, reviews, local links and AI answers.
audits · Nov 3, 2026
Perplexity SEO: how Perplexity picks sources
How Perplexity crawls, retrieves and ranks the sources it cites, based on its own engineering write-ups, and which parts of that pipeline you can influence.
ai-visibility · Nov 3, 2026
Query fan-out explained: what it means for your content
What query fan-out is, a worked example of one question splitting into sub-queries, which AI search systems use it, and how to map it to content coverage.
aeo · Nov 3, 2026
Redirect chains: how to find and fix them
What redirect chains are, what Google says about them, 301 vs 308, how to find chains with a redirect checker, and fixes for Apache, Nginx and Cloudflare.
technical · Nov 3, 2026
robots.txt for AI bots: copy-paste policies
Three copy-paste robots.txt policies for AI crawlers (maximize citations, search but no training, block all) plus a table of what blocking 17 AI bots does.
technical · Nov 3, 2026
SEO audit services: what they include and what they cost
What a paid SEO audit should cover, the deliverables to expect, realistic prices from published survey data, and the questions and red flags to check first.
audits · Nov 3, 2026
Shopify SEO audit: what to check and what you can't change
A Shopify SEO audit that separates what you control from what Shopify fixes: URLs, robots.txt.liquid, sitemaps, redirects, apps, theme speed and JSON-LD.
audits · Nov 3, 2026
Technical SEO audit services: scope, deliverables, pricing
A deliverable-by-deliverable guide to technical SEO audit services: what each part covers, what good output looks like, and how scope drives the price.
technical · Nov 3, 2026
What is a good SEO score? How audit scores work
What a good SEO score is, why scores differ between tools, how the Seouch score is weighted, what each band means and why chasing 100 is the wrong goal.
data · Nov 3, 2026
WordPress SEO audit: a practical walkthrough
Audit a WordPress site screen by screen: search visibility, permalinks, SEO plugins, sitemaps, robots.txt and AI crawlers, media, theme weight and caching.
technical · Nov 3, 2026