How to Get AI Search Engines to Trust You and Your Website Content We’re into the AI search era now and it’s challenging to stay visible and relevant to customers interests and inquiries. They’re asking and finding on the new AI chatbot search engines. Unfortunately, most Realtors, travel agencies, hotels, destination websites, tour companies and…
⚾ Win the Battle of Top Sports Brands, Definitively For decades, sporting goods brands won their battles on an old familiar playing field: product performance, athlete endorsements, retail relationships, and in-store merchandising. Today however, consumer/team equipment and clothing buying decisions aren’t made that way. The battle of the big brands now is in the moment,…
Branded Search is no Longer “Easy Traffic” This isn’t 2003. Things have changed. Google users don’t jump on the first search result as they did when search was in its golden years. Back then, when they searched for your company name, they generally found your homepage url without distraction and clicked through quickly. Through SEO…
Travel GEO Strategy: Establishing Your Priorities First Travelers reliance on AI search engines for travel planning is growing. For them, this new channel is exciting and perhaps becoming indispensable. Being visible in AI search engines is more important than you might realize. Yet optimizing your travel content (the material they want) for the way they…
Generative Engine Optimization: A Practical Guide for Small Business Owners More customers are now getting answers, recommendations, and buying guidance directly from AI systems like ChatGPT, Gemini, and Copilot—often without ever clicking a website. For many small business owners, this shift shows up quietly in fewer search engine referrals, less inquiries, and more hesitation from…
How To Optimize your Content for ChatGPT, Gemini, and other LLMs AI search engines are giving consumers an exciting new source of information. They provide not just links and info, but also act as an expert source engaging with the user. As you’ve read in the Generative Experience/Engine Optimization post, gaining visibility in them requires…
Using Schema Markup for GEO As mentioned in the GEO post, AI search engines rely heavily on entities that AI LLMs can recognize. And that is described in the structured data schema created by schema.org. Schema, if you’ve never heard of it, is a set of structured data document categories that help define what content…
Top 10 Visibility Factors for Generative Engine Optimization (GEO) A wave of experimentation and immersion in AI search engines is upon us now in 2025, and although growth is flattening, generative AI is increasingly important to what is shown on Google, Bing and elsewhere in the search engine marketplace. Experts aren’t sure how big AI…
Generative Engine Optimization (GEO) It’s nothing short of a revolution in content marketing and search happening right now. A new type of search engine is growing in popularity and it’s presenting small business owners with a first-mover advantage. It’s always wise to get a jump on technology waves. Did you miss any of them in…
Search Generative Experience Optimization Google continues to lead the way in how it offers a hybrid search alternative to search engines. In its ranked search results, it may include a special search feature called AI overviews. It’s a special form of results where Google’s artificial intelligence system offers up a generalized overview of a topic,…
Google is Fading? It’s Actually Rising Oh, the AI hypesters. All of them so eager to push their new Agentic AI, Chatbots, AI apps, and AI-augmented services and infrastructure. And many of these AI followers lash out with rhetoric about Google being a digital Dinosaur, whose user traffic will suddenly disappear. Much of the rancor,…
Fight the Zero Click Universe with Zero Click Marketing! As a small business owner, you’re likely aware that your free organic web traffic and social media impressions and clicks have declined over the last 5 years. Unfortunately this increasing trend is being fortified by AI, making the big web platforms an air tight container for…
AEO Answer Engine Optimization If you’re a digital marketer, you may have caught wind of a new type of search engine optimization. They’ve dubbed it Answer Engine Optimization or AEO. It’s actually a subset of Generative Engine Optimization, in that it is optimizing content pieces so they meet AI search engine indexing priorities and guidelines….
Adobe™ Offers AI LLM Optimizer for AI LLM Content Optimization Adobe™ has been an innovative, graphic design software company for decades. It’s products were world class. And this year, it’s extending its brand reputation by venturing into the Generative AI realm with new some cool, new AI tools for the mid to enterprise level marketing…
How LLM GPT’s Help us Create Great Content AI LLMs are a major change in how travel consumers experience search and content on the web. ChatGPT and Google Gemini are the two new AI search engines gaining significantly in the search marketplace. Many users love the comprehensiveness of answers to their questions — their pre-trip…
🍕 How do ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, and DeepSeek LLM’s Segment User Intent? Search engines, those deliverers of eager shoppers in vast amounts are all in on AI. AI algorithms govern the pieces and the whole of a shopper’s topic search on Google or ChatGPT. Just this week, Google announced its improved Google AI Mode Search…