05 September 2026
Unpopular opinion: a Wikipedia mention beats fifty quality backlinks for AI visibility. LLMs were trained on Wikipedia, Reddit, and a few high-trust corpora — heavily. Your beautiful link-building cam…
04 September 2026
Your 4,000-word pillar page is worse for AI citation than five 300-word ones. Generative engines grab the tightest passage that answers the query. A monster guide buries every quotable line under cont…
03 September 2026
You don't need a $200/mo GEO tracking tool. You need to actually ask the models. Those dashboards run the same prompts you could run yourself in five minutes across ChatGPT, Gemini, and Perplexity. Th…
02 September 2026
llms.txt is a vanity file. A well-configured robots.txt does more for AI visibility. No major model crawls llms.txt to decide what to cite — it's a proposal cosplaying as a standard. Meanwhile, half t…
01 September 2026
Google Search Console is now a lagging indicator. Your referral logs are the real AI dashboard. GSC shows you clicks Google deigned to send. It tells you nothing about the answer that ate the click. M…
31 August 2026
Unpopular opinion: dumping more schema markup won't get you cited by LLMs. Clean prose will. Everyone's bolting on FAQPage and HowTo JSON-LD like it's 2021 rich-snippet season. But generative engines …
