How to Get Your Plumbing, HVAC, or Electrical Business Recommended by ChatGPT and Google AI in 2026
The Short Version 45% of consumers now use AI to find local home services, up from 6% a year ago. But ChatGPT only recommends 1.2% of all local business locations. Plumbers, HVAC companies, electricians, and contractors who win those recommendations have a fully completed Google Business Profile, consistent listings across Yelp, Angi, HomeAdvisor, and Thumbtack, […]
67% of Homebuyers Now Find Their Real Estate Agent on AI. Here’s Why It’s Not You.
Summary 67% of homebuyers now use AI as their primary tool to research real estate agents, but 91% of US agents are completely invisible inside ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Gemini. Real estate has the lowest AI search visibility of any major industry in the country at 0.14%, because most agent websites are property search widgets with […]
Why AI Isn’t Recommending Your Business (The 7 Reasons and How to Fix Each One)
Summary If AI isn’t recommending your business, the cause is almost always one of seven fixable problems: blocked AI crawlers in your robots.txt, content that buries the answer instead of leading with it, inconsistent brand information across the web, no third-party mentions or reviews, missing or broken structured data, stale content that hasn’t been updated, […]
What Is AEO Tracking Software? The 2026 Buyer’s Guide
Summary AEO tracking software is a category of marketing tools that monitors how AI engines like ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude, Gemini, and Google AI Overviews cite, describe, and surface your brand inside generated answers. It tracks citation frequency, share of voice, sentiment, and source attribution across the prompts your buyers ask AI, giving marketing teams visibility […]
How to Get Your Brand Cited in Google Gemini: What’s Different, What Works, and Why It Matters More Than Ever
Summary Getting your brand cited in Google Gemini requires a different approach than Perplexity or ChatGPT. Gemini is grounded in Google’s search index, which means traditional SEO still matters but is no longer sufficient on its own. Gemini citations favor structured, entity-rich content from brand-owned domains, strong third-party mentions from sources Google already trusts, content […]
Google Drops FAQ Rich Results: What It Means for AEO in 2026
Summary Google stopped showing FAQ rich results in search on May 7, 2026, and is winding down all related Search Console reports and APIs by August. The FAQPage schema itself still works, and AI search engines including ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Google’s own AI Overviews continue to parse it for citation extraction. Most sites should leave […]
Perplexity vs ChatGPT vs Google AI: Which One Sends the Most Traffic?
Summary ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Google AI Overviews each send completely different traffic. ChatGPT sends the most raw volume, accounting for 78.16% of AI chatbot referrals globally as of March 2026 (Statcounter), but its citations rarely link out and click-through is structurally limited. Perplexity sends 7-20% of AI referral volume but those visitors convert at up […]
ChatGPT Ads Manager Launches: What It Means for AEO Marketers
Summary OpenAI has officially launched a self-serve Ads Manager for ChatGPT, moving the platform out of its agency-only pilot and into a buying interface advertisers can access directly. The launch adds CPC bidding (alongside the existing CPM model), Conversions API support, and pixel-based tracking, giving marketers the same performance infrastructure they’re used to from Google […]
The 10 Prompts You Should Run Every Week to Monitor Your Brand’s AI Visibility
Summary The 10 prompts every brand should run weekly to monitor AI visibility cover direct brand checks, category queries, competitor comparisons, problem-solution searches, niche variants, trust probes, thought leadership checks, content freshness tests, use case depth, and share-of-voice sweeps. Run them across at least two AI platforms (ChatGPT and Perplexity is the standard pairing), log […]
How to Write Content for AI Search (Not Google) in 2026
Summary The era of writing for Google is ending. Gartner predicts traditional search volume will drop 25% by 2026 as AI chatbots and virtual agents capture an increasing share of discovery. ChatGPT now reaches 883 million monthly users. AI Overviews appear in nearly 55% of all Google searches. The overlap between AI citations and Google’s […]