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SEO, AEO, and GEO guides for a world where AI answers search queries.

Classic SEO still matters. But AI search engines — ChatGPT, Perplexity, Google AI Overviews — use different ranking signals. These guides cover both surfaces and how they interact.

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  1. AI Search · Features

    Google adds AI image generation inside AI Overviews

    Google is adding AI image generation directly into AI Overviews responses in Search, so an answer can render a generated image alongside its text — rolling out over the coming weeks. It pushes the AI answer surface further toward being a rich, self-contained destination rather than a stepping stone to links.Search Engine Journal →

  2. Technical · Testing

    Mueller: big A/B-test differences can surface in search — but long tests aren’t a penalty

    John Mueller said that when the two versions in an A/B test differ significantly, Google can reflect that difference in search results and may use one version for indexing. He separately clarified that running an A/B test for a long time does not, by itself, cause an SEO demotion — useful reassurance if you run extended experiments on key pages.Search Engine Journal →

  3. Technical · Internal Links

    Mueller on “first-link priority” and hiding internal links

    Mueller addressed a technical-SEO scheme that obfuscates homepage links so that only one internal anchor text is counted toward a page (“first-link priority”). The takeaway: engineering around how Google reads internal anchors is fragile and easy to get wrong — clear, honest internal linking is the durable approach.Search Engine Journal →

  4. AI Search · Merchant Center

    Merchant Center adds a beta “AI Performance Insights” report for AI Mode and AI Overviews

    Google added a beta report under Merchant Center’s Analytics → Products tab showing share-of-voice, competitor share, and query frequency and type for how a brand’s products surface in AI Mode and AI Overviews. It covers organic-AI traffic only, with no clicks metric yet, and is piloting in the US before expanding to Australia, Canada, India, and New Zealand — the product-feed-side counterpart to Search Console’s AI performance reporting.Search Engine Roundtable →

  5. AI Crawlers · Technical

    OpenAI clarifies its crawler user-agent versioning and a robots.txt marker

    OpenAI updated its crawler help documentation to note that the OAI-SearchBot user-agent version number may change over time, and to describe an additional robots.txt-specific marker included in the user-agent string. There’s no new action for site owners, but it’s worth a note if you match crawler user-agents by exact string when managing AI-crawler access.Search Engine Roundtable →

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New · June 2026

Measuring AI Search Visibility

Search Console's new generative-AI reports, Merchant Center's AI report, and Preferred Sources — the first native data on how often AI surfaces show you, and what to do with it.

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Generative engine optimization

What is GEO?

Generative Engine Optimization explained. What AI search engines rank on, how it differs from classic SEO, and the 6 signals that matter most for ecommerce stores.

GEO service
Structured data

Schema Markup for Ecommerce

Product, BreadcrumbList, FAQ, and Article schema in priority order — what AI agents read first, where FAQ markup still counts after the 2026 deprecation, and the mismatches that cost eligibility.

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New · July 2026

BigCommerce Faceted Navigation SEO

What BigCommerce does with filter URLs and canonicals by default, the robots.txt parameter rules that stop crawl waste, and how to promote money filter combos to indexable pages.

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AI crawler access

AI Crawlers & robots.txt

GPTBot, ClaudeBot, PerplexityBot, Googlebot-Extended — which AI crawlers exist, what they do with your content, and how to control access without accidentally blocking yourself from AI search results.

AI-ready SEO
New · July 2026

llms.txt for Ecommerce

The honest guide: what llms.txt does and doesn't do in 2026, who actually reads it, what Google says, why we ship one anyway — and a copy-paste structure for a store.

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SEO during migration

SEO Preservation on Replatforms

The most common SEO mistakes made during platform migrations — and the before/during/after checklist that avoids ranking drops. URL mapping, redirect chains, and the 90-day watch.

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