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How AI search actually works

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September 15, 2026/13 min read

Title Tags Can Increase AI Citations By 192%

What Works and What Doesn’t Across 1,000 Searches and Five AI Engines

Adding the current year to your title tag increased AI citations by as much as 192%. Title length, brand suffixes and question titles didn’t do anything.

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September 10, 2026/15 min read

The 3 Numbers That Decide If AI Cites Your Page

Chunk Frequency, Chunk Score and Extractable Units

AI scores one chunk of your page at a time. How many chunks you need depends on your market, so benchmark against the pages already cited. Adding quotations raised a page’s visibility in AI answers by 40.9% in the GEO benchmark.

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August 15, 2026/13 min read

10x AI Visibility Refresh

What Happened When We Refreshed 98 Posts and Published Nothing

We refreshed 98 posts, published nothing, and citations went up 10x in 91 days. The correlation between Google rank and AI citation was basically zero, and 41 cited pages had no Google impressions at all.

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June 19, 2026/28 min read

The Credibility Layer

How ChatGPT Recommends Local Businesses

We logged 200 reasoning sessions, 5,933 searches and 1,982 citations. Rank barely touched recommendations, Reddit was cited zero times, and every recommendation turned out to come from a 30 search credibility audit.

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