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How to find your own number, how to read it, and when it matters.</description><pubDate>Sun, 19 Jul 2026 08:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Analysis</category></item><item><title>Cloudflare and AI Bots: What to Set Before September 15</title><link>https://seoforai.net/blog/cloudflare-ai-bot-blocking/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://seoforai.net/blog/cloudflare-ai-bot-blocking/</guid><description>Cloudflare sorts AI bots by behavior — Search, Agent, and Training. What each option means, where the mixed-bot trap is, and what changes on September 15.</description><pubDate>Sun, 19 Jul 2026 08:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Tutorial</category></item><item><title>Comparison articles for AI: how to write X vs Y in 2026</title><link>https://seoforai.net/blog/comparison-articles-for-ai/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://seoforai.net/blog/comparison-articles-for-ai/</guid><description>How to write a fair X vs Y comparison, a comparison table, and a Top-N list so AI and readers both grasp your criteria and the differences.</description><pubDate>Sun, 19 Jul 2026 08:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Tutorial</category></item><item><title>Review Platforms: People Left, AI Keeps Citing Them</title><link>https://seoforai.net/blog/review-platforms-and-ai/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://seoforai.net/blog/review-platforms-and-ai/</guid><description>Review sites lost most of their traffic but hold 3 of the 5 most-cited domains in AI Overviews. 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What that changes for online stores, which product data decides, and why it&apos;s hard to measure.</description><pubDate>Sat, 18 Jul 2026 08:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Analysis</category></item><item><title>Google AI Mode: How to Prepare Content for Citations in 2026</title><link>https://seoforai.net/blog/google-ai-mode-content/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://seoforai.net/blog/google-ai-mode-content/</guid><description>Google AI Mode: how it differs from AI Overviews, how query fan-out works, and the content changes that can raise your odds of being cited.</description><pubDate>Sat, 18 Jul 2026 08:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Tutorial</category></item><item><title>How to Appear in Google AI Mode: A Practical Guide</title><link>https://seoforai.net/blog/how-to-appear-in-ai-mode/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://seoforai.net/blog/how-to-appear-in-ai-mode/</guid><description>Google says AI Mode has no special requirements. 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What breaks a passage, how the cover test catches it, and how to rewrite it — with a before and after.</description><pubDate>Sat, 18 Jul 2026 08:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Tutorial</category></item><item><title>Product feeds and GTIN: the data that gets you found</title><link>https://seoforai.net/blog/product-feed-and-gtin/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://seoforai.net/blog/product-feed-and-gtin/</guid><description>GTIN identifies a product unambiguously. What belongs in the feed, why the feed and the page have to agree, and what to do without one.</description><pubDate>Sat, 18 Jul 2026 08:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Tutorial</category></item><item><title>Reviews and ratings for AI: a citable signal</title><link>https://seoforai.net/blog/reviews-and-ratings-for-ai/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://seoforai.net/blog/reviews-and-ratings-for-ai/</guid><description>Reviews are usually the most valuable text on a product page that the seller didn&apos;t write. 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How to write content that improves your odds of a citation in ChatGPT and Perplexity.</description><pubDate>Sat, 11 Jul 2026 08:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Tutorial</category></item><item><title>The middle of the funnel in the AI era: where decisions get made</title><link>https://seoforai.net/blog/middle-of-funnel-in-ai/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://seoforai.net/blog/middle-of-funnel-in-ai/</guid><description>AI Overviews are eating the top of the funnel. Where the decision moves, and why comparison and decision content is worth more now.</description><pubDate>Sat, 11 Jul 2026 08:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Analysis</category></item><item><title>Site migration and redesign: how to keep your AI visibility</title><link>https://seoforai.net/blog/migration-redesign-ai-visibility/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://seoforai.net/blog/migration-redesign-ai-visibility/</guid><description>A migration or redesign can cost you rankings and AI citations. 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Here&apos;s how it works and why SEO still drives AI visibility.</description><pubDate>Sat, 11 Jul 2026 08:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Analysis</category></item><item><title>Query Fan-Out: How Google AI Mode Reads Content</title><link>https://seoforai.net/blog/query-fan-out/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://seoforai.net/blog/query-fan-out/</guid><description>Query fan-out in Google AI Mode can break one query into several sub-questions. 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How it differs from Share of Voice, how to measure it, and how to read it.</description><pubDate>Sat, 11 Jul 2026 08:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Analysis</category></item><item><title>Wrong Information About Your Brand in AI: How to Respond</title><link>https://seoforai.net/blog/wrong-information-about-your-brand-in-ai/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://seoforai.net/blog/wrong-information-about-your-brand-in-ai/</guid><description>AI is saying something false about your company? The likely causes, how to fix the sources, and how to report it — without unrealistic promises.</description><pubDate>Sat, 11 Jul 2026 08:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Analysis</category></item><item><title>YouTube for AI visibility: how to get cited in 2026</title><link>https://seoforai.net/blog/youtube-for-ai-visibility/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://seoforai.net/blog/youtube-for-ai-visibility/</guid><description>YouTube is one of the most-cited sources in AI search. How to make a video citable with an edited transcript, chapters, and a real description.</description><pubDate>Sat, 11 Jul 2026 08:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Tutorial</category></item><item><title>AEO and GEO = SEO? What Google&apos;s 2026 Guide Says</title><link>https://seoforai.net/blog/aeo-geo-is-still-seo/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://seoforai.net/blog/aeo-geo-is-still-seo/</guid><description>Google published a guide to AI Overviews and AI Mode in May 2026. Here&apos;s what it means for AEO, GEO, and SEO in practice.</description><pubDate>Thu, 11 Jun 2026 08:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Analysis</category></item><item><title>AI SEO for WordPress: A Practical 2026 Guide</title><link>https://seoforai.net/blog/ai-seo-for-wordpress/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://seoforai.net/blog/ai-seo-for-wordpress/</guid><description>How to set up WordPress for AI search: llms.txt, robots.txt for AI crawlers, structured data, and site speed. 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ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Google AI Overviews compared — and what it means for content that wants to get cited.</description><pubDate>Thu, 11 Jun 2026 08:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Analysis</category></item><item><title>Lighthouse Agentic Browsing: the AI check in 2026</title><link>https://seoforai.net/blog/lighthouse-agentic-browsing/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://seoforai.net/blog/lighthouse-agentic-browsing/</guid><description>What Lighthouse Agentic Browsing checks in 2026, how to run the audit, and which failed checks to fix first.</description><pubDate>Thu, 11 Jun 2026 08:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Tutorial</category></item><item><title>Original data for AI citations: a 2026 guide</title><link>https://seoforai.net/blog/original-data-for-ai-citations/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://seoforai.net/blog/original-data-for-ai-citations/</guid><description>Original data can raise the odds that AI cites your site. 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A practical guide to when a page about your brand is worth pursuing — and when it isn&apos;t.</description><pubDate>Wed, 10 Jun 2026 08:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Tutorial</category></item><item><title>llms.txt in 2026: The Guide, Who Supports It, and When to Skip It</title><link>https://seoforai.net/blog/llms-txt-guide/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://seoforai.net/blog/llms-txt-guide/</guid><description>What llms.txt is, how to write one, who supports it (Claude, Perplexity), who doesn&apos;t (Google) — and when it&apos;s worth deploying.</description><pubDate>Tue, 09 Jun 2026 08:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Tutorial</category></item><item><title>Structured data for AI: types and validation in 2026</title><link>https://seoforai.net/blog/structured-data-for-ai/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://seoforai.net/blog/structured-data-for-ai/</guid><description>Which JSON-LD structured data types help AI understand your content, what changed with FAQ rich results in 2026, and how to validate them step by step.</description><pubDate>Sun, 07 Jun 2026 08:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Tutorial</category></item><item><title>AI SEO for B2B in 2026: Your Ticket Into the Vendor Shortlist</title><link>https://seoforai.net/blog/ai-seo-for-b2b/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://seoforai.net/blog/ai-seo-for-b2b/</guid><description>B2B buyers often vet vendors in ChatGPT and Perplexity before they ever talk to sales. 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