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How do you get a brand named inside an AI answer?

Answer the exact questions the engines are asked, on pages they can read, with facts that agree everywhere you are mentioned, then measure which engines picked it up. The articles below cover each part: what AEO and GEO are, which prompts to track, what structured data and llms.txt to ship, and how we measured our own share of voice.

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1Scan

Your prompts go to the engines on a schedule.

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2Gap

A competitor was named. You were not.

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3Move

One specific page to write today.

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4Re-scan

Share of voice moves. Or it doesn't.

The loop every article comes back to.

Articles

Long reads, each with a diagram and a number you can check.

  • 2026-09-30 · 2 min read

    What is the difference between AEO, GEO, and SEO?

    SEO gets a page ranked in Google. AEO gets a brand named inside an AI answer. GEO is the research term for the content work behind AEO. One diagram, one table, and what changes in practice.

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  • 2026-09-30 · 2 min read

    How do you track brand mentions in Google AI Overviews and AI Mode?

    AI Overviews and AI Mode have no mention report. Here is the manual method, what Search Console can and cannot tell you, how Gemini relates to both, and an honest note on what helloAISearch tracks today.

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  • 2026-09-30 · 2 min read

    What is llms.txt and should your site have one?

    llms.txt is a plain-text summary of your site for AI crawlers, served at /llms.txt. What the convention asks for, what to include, what to leave out, and helloAISearch's own file as a worked example.

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  • 2026-09-30 · 2 min read

    Which structured data does a site need for AEO?

    A short, ordered checklist of schema.org markup for answer engine optimization: Organization and Brand with stable @ids, SoftwareApplication with Offers, FAQPage, BreadcrumbList, Article, HowTo. What each does and what to skip.

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  • 2026-09-30 · 2 min read

    Which prompts should a SaaS startup track in AI search?

    The prompt shapes that decide whether ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and Perplexity name a SaaS startup: category, alternatives, comparison, use case, pricing, and integration prompts, with templates to fill in.

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  • 2026-09-30 · 2 min read

    Which prompts should a small agency track for its clients in AI search?

    A prompt set an agency can reuse across clients: local, category, alternatives, and trust prompts, plus the agency's own. How to size it per plan and how to report share of voice to a client.

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  • 2026-09-30 · 2 min read

    How did we measure helloAISearch's own AI visibility, and what did we find?

    The method behind our published scorecard: 350 AI answers from ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini across 7 prompts between July 17, 2026 and August 31, 2026. helloAISearch was named in none of them. What we counted, how, and what we did about it.

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Ten of your prompts on ChatGPT and Gemini, twice, with the actual answers and your brand highlighted.

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Guides

Direct answers to the questions buyers ask the engines.

Each guide answers one prompt in its first paragraph, then compares the tools the engines name for it.

  • What are the best AI visibility tools for small agencies?
  • What are the best alternatives to Semrush for AI search?
  • How do you track brand mentions in ChatGPT?
  • What is the best AEO tool for SaaS startups?
  • What is the best Ahrefs Brand Radar alternative for AI search?
  • How do you get cited in AI search?

Glossary

Definitions, one sentence each.

  • What is AEO?

    Answer Engine Optimization (AEO) is the practice of getting a brand named, recommended, or cited inside the answers that AI assistants such as ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and Perplexity generate, the way SEO gets a page ranked in Google results.

  • What is GEO?

    Generative Engine Optimization (GEO) is the practice of shaping content so that generative AI engines such as ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and Perplexity draw on it and name the brand behind it when they generate answers.

  • What is AI citation?

    An AI citation is a mention of a brand, product, or page inside an answer generated by an AI engine such as ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, or Perplexity, either as a named recommendation or as a linked source the answer draws on.

  • What is AI share of voice?

    Share of voice in AI search is the percentage of brand mentions across a set of AI answers that belong to one brand: mentions of that brand divided by mentions of every brand tracked, for the same prompts, engines, and period.

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