The AI Rankin blog
How AI engines decide who to recommend and what to do about it. Playbooks, teardowns, and data on the new search.
AI SEO is the new SEO. Learn exactly how to rank your brand inside ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, Claude, Grok and Google AI Overview in 2026 — a step-by-step guide from AI Rankin.
What is Answer Engine Optimization (AEO), why it replaces SEO, and the exact framework we use at AI Rankin to get brands cited across 8 AI engines.
llms.txt tells AI engines what your site is about and which pages to cite. This guide shows exactly what to put in yours, with a copy-paste example.
A practical playbook for measuring your brand’s presence inside AI answers across 8 engines — prompts to run, metrics to watch, and how AI Rankin automates it.
AI answer engines rank content differently than Google. Here are the seven differences that decide whether your brand gets cited by ChatGPT and Perplexity or not.
ChatGPT recommends specific brands by name inside answers. Here’s the exact 10-step playbook we use to get clients cited by ChatGPT in weeks, not months.
Not all schema is equal. These are the 6 schema types that make AI engines cite your pages — with copy-paste JSON-LD examples for each.
AI Overview now shows above every organic result. Here’s exactly how to structure content and metadata so Google cites you inside the AI Overview.
Perplexity is the fastest-growing answer engine. Learn the exact ranking signals it uses and how to earn citations on high-intent queries.
A step-by-step case study of how a SaaS brand overtook 3 competitors in ChatGPT and Perplexity in 6 weeks — the exact stack, prompts and content used.
See exactly where you stand in AI answers run your free scan in 30 seconds.