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Nº 01 RESEARCH • 11 min read The 200-brand citation study: who answer engines actually trust Four engines, 90 days, 200 brands. The single biggest predictor of citation share wasn't domain authority. It was answer-shaped page structure. Jun 2026 112K READS Nº 02 PLAYBOOK • 14 min read The AEO audit: 27 checks we run on every site The exact checklist - crawlability for AI agents, passage structure, entity coverage, llms.txt, and the five schema types that still matter. Mar 2026 98K READS Nº 03 GOOGLE • 9 min read Google quietly rewrote how AI Overviews pick citations Only 18% of AI Overview citations now come from page-one results. A 2.1M-query log analysis of what replaced rankings. Aug 2026 87K READS Nº 04 CASE STUDY • 9 min read How a 40-person SaaS became ChatGPT's default answer in its category One ruthlessly honest comparison page, cited in 61% of category queries. The full teardown, with the before/after content. Aug 2026 81K READS Nº 05 STRATEGY • 6 min read Why "zero-click" is the wrong metric: measuring influence, not visits Traffic is down and pipeline is up. A framework for measuring AI search the way it actually converts. Aug 2026 76K READS Nº 06 TECHNICAL • 7 min read llms.txt is quietly becoming a ranking input. Here's the evidence Adoption passed 12% of the top 10K sites. We A/B tested it across 40 domains; retrieval rates tell a clear story. Aug 2026 71K READS Nº 07 OPINION • 4 min read SEO isn't dead. It just reports to AEO now The org-chart argument that started a thousand LinkedIn fights: why answer engine visibility should own the search budget. Aug 2026 69K READS Nº 08 PERPLEXITY • 10 min read Inside Perplexity's ranking stack: what its engineers told us Freshness windows, source diversity quotas, and why your Wikipedia presence matters more than you think. May 2026 64K READS Nº 09 PLAYBOOK • 8 min read The entity-first content brief: a template that wins citations Stop writing for keywords. A fill-in-the-blank brief structure built for passage retrieval, with three worked examples. Aug 2026 58K READS Nº 10 CHATGPT • 5 min read OpenAI's shopping graph: the new product feed playbook Merchant feeds just became an AEO surface. How to structure product data so ChatGPT recommends you. Aug 2026 52K READS