Category: GEO Basics
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The Uncontested Entity Slot: Where It Is Just SEO Is Actually True
Read more →: The Uncontested Entity Slot: Where It Is Just SEO Is Actually TrueAn uncontested entity slot is a query with no incumbent. The tactic that wins it is not strong; the competition is absent. Query class determines whether AI citation is just…
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The Control-Credibility Inversion: Why Your Off-Page Audit Fixes the Wrong Tier First
Read more →: The Control-Credibility Inversion: Why Your Off-Page Audit Fixes the Wrong Tier FirstThe pages you can edit are the pages engines trust least. Control and credibility run in opposite directions. A pre-registered test of structured entity data returned null on category queries.
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10 GEO Voices Worth Following in 2026
Read more →: 10 GEO Voices Worth Following in 2026Ten practitioners whose GEO coverage passes a two-year look-back. Grouped by territory, mapped by format, with a compact rotation for staying current without drowning.
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The GEO Lab Ebook Library: 9 Guides Mapped to Where You Are
Read more →: The GEO Lab Ebook Library: 9 Guides Mapped to Where You AreNine free GEO ebooks mapped to the situation each one solves. Start with the Pocket Guide, branch to the guide that matches your current problem, skip the rest until you…
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10 Research Papers That Define the GEO Field
Read more →: 10 Research Papers That Define the GEO FieldTen peer-reviewed papers that form the citable foundation for GEO. From the RAG architecture that makes AI search work to the first study that measured citation optimisation as a distinct…
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10 AI Crawlers, What They Do, and How to Identify Them in Your Logs
Read more →: 10 AI Crawlers, What They Do, and How to Identify Them in Your LogsUser-agent strings, verification methods, and a reference table for reading Nginx logs when you want to know which AI is reading you.
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What AI Search Engines Actually Do With Your Content: Retrieval, Extraction, Compression, Citation
Read more →: What AI Search Engines Actually Do With Your Content: Retrieval, Extraction, Compression, CitationBy Artur Ferreira · The GEO Lab · Published: July 2026 What AI Search Engines Actually Do With Your Content: Retrieval, Extraction, Compression, Citation AI search does not read your…
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The Difference Between Being Retrieved and Being Cited in AI Search
Read more →: The Difference Between Being Retrieved and Being Cited in AI SearchBy Artur Ferreira · The GEO Lab · Published: 14 June 2026 The Difference Between Being Retrieved and Being Cited in AI Search Your site appeared in Perplexity’s source panel…
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Why Does AI Search Ignore High-Quality Content?
Read more →: Why Does AI Search Ignore High-Quality Content?By Artur Ferreira · The GEO Lab · Published: 14 June 2026 Why Does AI Search Ignore High-Quality Content? Your content is better than the page Perplexity cited. Three measured…
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10 Content Formats Mapped to Query Intents
Read more →: 10 Content Formats Mapped to Query IntentsTen structural templates, one query intent each — the practitioner’s format-to-intent pattern language that sits under every well-cited page.