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    <description>Guides on Generative Engine Optimization (GEO) — how to get your brand mentioned and recommended by ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, and Perplexity.</description>
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      <title>Mentions vs Citations: The Goal Isn&apos;t to Be Linked. It&apos;s to Be the Answer.</title>
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      <description>AI search has two currencies: citations and mentions. They get conflated in every GEO conversation, and most brands optimize for the wrong one. Why mention share is the senior metric of the GEO era — and why you can&apos;t publish your way into it.</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 15 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>SEO to GEO: The Market Shift, in Numbers</title>
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      <description>Traditional search volume is falling, zero-click answers are the norm, and AI-referred visitors convert 4.4× better. The data behind the shift from ranked links to generated answers — Gartner, Bain, Pew, Semrush, and a 1M-keyword study, 2024–2026.</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 14 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>The AI Visibility Audit: A 10-Step Checklist</title>
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      <description>An AI visibility audit checks whether AI assistants can find, understand, and recommend your brand. Work through these 10 steps — from a no-JavaScript crawl test to competitor share-of-voice — to find exactly where you&apos;re losing AI answers.</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 06 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>How to Get Cited by Perplexity (and Other AI Search Engines)</title>
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      <description>Perplexity cites pages it can retrieve, parse, and quote: crawlable content that directly answers the question, corroborated by other sources it trusts. Here&apos;s what actually drives AI citations — and how to earn them for your brand.</description>
      <pubDate>Sun, 05 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>What Is Generative Engine Optimization (GEO)?</title>
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      <description>Generative Engine Optimization (GEO) is the practice of improving how often and how favorably your brand appears in AI-generated answers from ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, and Perplexity. Here&apos;s how it works and why it matters.</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 24 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>How to Rank in ChatGPT and Other AI Search Engines</title>
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      <description>To rank in ChatGPT and AI search, make your brand easy for models to describe, build consistent third-party mentions, publish answer-shaped content, and measure your visibility across every assistant. A practical step-by-step guide.</description>
      <pubDate>Sat, 20 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>AI Visibility vs Traditional SEO: What&apos;s Actually Different</title>
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      <description>Traditional SEO competes for a ranked position on a results page; AI visibility competes for a mention inside a synthesized answer. They share foundations but differ in the unit of competition, how results are measured, and how fast they change.</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 16 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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