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 […]
Profound Review 2026: The Best AEO/GEO Platform For AI Search
Summary: Profound is the most-funded AEO tracker on the market and the clear category leader in AEO tracking software heading into mid-2026. With $58.5 million raised, G2 Winter 2026 Leader status, and customers including Ramp, MongoDB, Indeed, US Bank, and Figma, Profound has built a defensible lead that no other AI brand analysis software has […]
How to Write a Listicle That Gets Cited by AI (2026)
Summary Listicles drive 32% of all AI citations across LLMs based on analysis of 177 million AI citations, more than three times the rate of the next-most-cited format. To get listicles cited by ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, Claude, and Google AI Overviews, optimize for clean extraction: question-style H1 with year tag, Summary section with direct answer, […]
Microsoft Ends Revenue Share With OpenAI as Partnership Loosens Again
Summary Microsoft and OpenAI announced a renegotiated partnership on April 27, 2026 that ends Microsoft’s exclusive right to sell OpenAI’s models and stops Microsoft from paying revenue share on OpenAI products it resells through Azure. OpenAI will continue to pay revenue share to Microsoft through 2030, but that obligation is now subject to a total […]