đź‘Š 🤺 Resisting and Controlling AI to Save Your Business Do you feel negative about Artificial Intelligence and all the hyped-up generative AI tools and agents that are reshaping business and marketing? You’re not alone. Small business owners in travel, real estate and ecommerce are watching their analytics and sales reports and are really not…
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, Claude, Perplexity, and Copilot, often without ever clicking through to a real business website. And these consumers are liking how their more frequent AI search experiences seem more…
âšľ 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…
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. And use of AI chatbots and apps is increasing quickly. As you’ve read in…
Use the AI Search Threat to Your Advantage If you’ve found your free organic Google traffic, repeat visits, and online sales dropping at an alarming rate, you’re not alone. Both SMBs and large corporations, news media and even government sites are seeing their free organic search traffic disappear. Google and other tech monopolies are creating…
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…
Power Up Your Site’s Internal Linking for Impressive Outcomes If your website is filled with awesome content yet suffers from low visibility on Google sarch, there might be a number of reasons including low-ranking power, few relevant backlinks from credible, authoritative websites, and poor internal linking. Linking has never gotten much respect, and Google has…
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,…