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AEO
20 articles on AEO from the Rankry team.
How to Track AI Referral Traffic in GA4 (2026 Guide)
The full GA4 setup for AI referral traffic: custom channel group, the regex, Explore for history, and GA4's native AI Assistant channel. Plus the two blind spots no configuration can close, and when a dedicated script is the better tool.
Rankry Team · August 4, 2026
Does llms.txt Work? What the Data Actually Says in 2026
The honest answer on llms.txt in 2026: what the AI bot-traffic data actually shows, where the file still has narrow value, and the five things that move AI citations instead.
Rankry Team · July 31, 2026
LLM Citation Tracking: How to Track the Sources Behind AI Answers (2026)
How to track the sources behind AI answers: why citations are the root cause and mentions only the symptom, which domain types recur, how to track them, and how to turn the gaps into an outreach list.
Rankry Team · July 23, 2026
Is My Content Being Used to Train AI? (And Does Blocking It Hurt Visibility?)
Training bots, search bots, and live-fetch bots have different stakes: block training freely, never block search or live-fetch. Plus the Cloudflare default flip on September 15, 2026, and how to set your rules before it decides for you.
Rankry Team · July 22, 2026
How to Monitor Your Brand Across AI Search Engines (2026 Guide)
How to monitor your brand across ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Perplexity, Grok, Microsoft Copilot, and Google AI Overviews: the four signals to record, the weekly loop, manual vs automated, and the mistakes that make monitoring worthless.
Rankry Team · July 22, 2026
How to Get Started With AI Content Optimization for Free
A free six-step ladder for AI content optimization: ask the engines, check Brave, audit robots.txt, grep server logs, verify in Bing Webmaster Tools, and rewrite one page answer-first. Zero budget required.
Rankry Team · July 21, 2026
How to Track Citations and Sources in AI Search
How to track citations and sources in AI search: collect the domains each engine cites in your category, classify them by type, tag each as yours, gap, or mixed, and watch the list over time.
Rankry Team · June 29, 2026
How to Run an AI Visibility Audit, Step by Step
How to run an AI visibility audit in five steps: build a prompt set, run it across the engines, record presence, rank, and sentiment, capture cited sources, check readiness, and prioritize the fixes.
Rankry Team · June 27, 2026
How to Find the Prompts Where Your Brand Should Appear but Doesn't
Find the AI prompts where your brand should appear but does not: start from buyer intent, cover five prompt types, run them across the engines, and prioritize the gaps with a gap matrix.
Rankry Team · June 27, 2026
Is My Website a Source for ChatGPT and Perplexity? How to Check
Three ways to check whether ChatGPT and Perplexity use your website as a source: ask the engines, read your server logs and AI referral traffic, and track cited sources with a tool. The same three checks work on Claude, Gemini, Grok, Copilot, and Google AI Overviews.
Rankry Team · June 27, 2026
Brand Mentions vs Citations in AI: What Is the Difference?
Brand mentions vs citations in AI answers, explained: what each one is, why citations are worth more, how to track both, and how to turn a mention into a citation.
Rankry Team · June 24, 2026
What Is Answer Engine Optimization (AEO)?
Answer Engine Optimization (AEO) explained: what it is, how it differs from SEO, the four levers that get your brand into AI answers, and how to start.
Rankry Team · June 23, 2026
What Is Generative Engine Optimization (GEO)? The Complete 2026 Guide
GEO is the practice of getting AI engines like ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and Perplexity to mention, cite, and recommend you. How it differs from SEO and AEO, how engines pick brands, the signal stack, and how to measure it.
Rankry Team · June 14, 2026
AI Referral Traffic: Does ChatGPT & Perplexity Send Visitors, and How to Track It
ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, Claude, Grok, Copilot, and Google AI Overviews send real, high-intent visitors. Here is how to find them in GA4, set up tracking that survives the gaps, and why visibility and referral traffic are two different numbers.
Rankry Team · June 13, 2026
Do AI Crawlers Read JavaScript? Rendering for AI Visibility
As of mid-2026, no major AI crawler executes JavaScript. GPTBot, ClaudeBot, and PerplexityBot read only your raw HTML. Here is how to test your site in two minutes and how to fix what you find.
Rankry Team · June 12, 2026
Should You Allow or Block AI Crawlers? (GPTBot, ClaudeBot, PerplexityBot, Google-Extended)
AI crawlers do three different jobs: train models, build the citation index, and fetch pages on demand. Here is which to allow, which to block, and a ready-to-copy robots.txt.
Rankry Team · June 6, 2026
llms.txt: What It Is and How to Add One to Your Site
What llms.txt is, how to create one, whether AI engines actually use it (the honest answer), and how to check your site's AI readiness with Rankry.
Rankry Team · June 2, 2026
AI Visibility Audit: A 30-Minute Brand Checklist
Step-by-step diagnostic for how ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and Perplexity treat your brand — what to test, what the answers mean, and the fixes to start with.
Rankry Team · April 7, 2026
Why AI Visibility Matters for Your Brand in 2026
AI models shape how consumers discover brands. Learn what AI visibility is, why it differs from SEO, and how to measure it.
Ivan Rud · March 27, 2026
5 Ways to Optimize Content for AI Search
Five research-backed tactics to increase your brand's visibility in AI-generated answers. Based on Princeton GEO study data.
Rankry Team · March 6, 2026