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AEO, GEO and AI search insights for growing businesses
Practical guides, original research and field notes on getting your business found, cited and recommended by ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini and Google’s AI.
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New articles on AI search every week.
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Tracking AI Search Isn’t a Strategy: The Local Playbook
An AI visibility report tells you what happened, not what to do. How local businesses can turn tracking data into a plan: observe, diagnose,…
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A Field Guide to Black-Hat GEO (and Why It’s a Bad Bet)
Hidden text, prompt poisoning, fake threads and negative GEO are all being tried on AI search. A look at what the evidence shows, and…
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Reddit and Local AEO: Earn It, Don’t Farm It
Reddit is one of the most-cited sources in AI answers, which is exactly why it’s being farmed. Here’s what’s happening and how local businesses…
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AI Search in Northwest Arkansas: A Local Playbook
Northwest Arkansas is one of the fastest-growing U.S. metros, and newcomers are asking AI who to trust. Here’s how local AI search works and…
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Twenty years of SEO sponsor booths, and what they predict for AEO
I traced 1,317 companies that sponsored SMX, SES, Pubcon, BrightonSEO, MozCon, SEO Week and SearchLove from 2006 to 2026. The pattern of who consolidated,…
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Publish Your Prices: Pricing Is Now a Local AI Search Signal
Google now lets searchers ask AI to call local businesses and collect quotes. Here’s how to make your pricing easy for machines to find…
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Go Deep, Not Wide: Winning the Long Tail in Local AEO
Hyper-specific queries return more random, and more winnable, AI results. Here’s how independents can use that without spinning up a page farm.
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“Plumber Near Me” Now Has Two Rulebooks: Google vs AI Answer Engines
Google’s local pack and AI answer engines both return a shortlist for the same query, but they rank on different rules. Here’s what changed…
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Most “Reddit Strategies” Are Garbage: Reddit and YouTube for AI Search
Everyone at BrightonSEO agreed Reddit and YouTube matter for AI search. Almost nobody had a real strategy. What a legitimate approach looks like.
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Citation Building Is the New Blogger Outreach (And That’s Not a Compliment)
The BrightonSEO expo floor was packed with AI visibility tools and link builders rebranded as citation builders. Why citation decay makes buying AI mentions…
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The Junior AEO Problem Nobody Wants to Talk About
Agencies are struggling to level up junior and mid-level AEO staff, and clients feel it. Why I think AEO teams should be senior-only.
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I Don’t Read Your AI-Generated Site Audit (And Neither Do Your Prospects)
AI makes SEO and AEO audits fast to produce, but without business context they fall flat and get ignored. Why human review is worth…
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Our most useful long-form guides and research.
- The CPG GEO & AEO Guide (2026)How brands get named by ChatGPT, AI Mode and shopping agents
- AI Search in Northwest ArkansasA local playbook for NWA businesses
- The Comprehensive Checklist for AI OptimizationA framework for AI search readiness
- Northwest Arkansas AI Readiness PlanOur 2026 regional research update
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