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Nº 01 RESEARCH • 7 min read The 50,000-brand citation study: who answer engines actually trust 50,000 brands, 1,094 topics, 600,000 citations. Domain authority predicted the topic winner about as well as a coin flip. 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 WebMCP turns your website into an API for AI agents. 67% less compute cost means agents will prefer sites that support it. Aug 2026 87K READS Nº 04 CASE STUDY • 9 min read How a 200-person company out-cites a $160bn giant in AI search What the documented winners share, and why being cited is not the same as being recommended. Aug 2026 81K READS Nº 05 STRATEGY • 6 min read Google quietly rewrote how AI Overviews pick citations, and page-one rankings barely matter anymore 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: everyone ships it, no engine admits reading it 8.7% of the top 1,000 sites now ship one. Ahrefs server logs show 97% never get a single bot request. Aug 2026 71K READS Nº 07 OPINION • 4 min read SEO isn't dead. It just reports to AEO now Teams ring-fence 20 to 30% of search budget for AI visibility, but only 22% have integrated the disciplines. Aug 2026 69K READS Nº 08 PERPLEXITY • 10 min read Inside Perplexity's ranking stack: chunks, hybrid retrieval and reranking Its own index, chunk-level retrieval, and the rule that it may not say what it did not retrieve. May 2026 64K READS Nº 09 PLAYBOOK • 7 min read Your website is about to become an API. What WebMCP means for AEO 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