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The Citation Cluster Method, in practice.
Case studies, teardowns, and tactics for getting your pages cited by ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, and Copilot, applied to real sites.
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How to Check If AI Recommends Your Business (Free 60-Second Test)
The exact 60-second test to see if ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, or Copilot recommends you when buyers ask. Three ways to ask, what each answer means, and how to count instead of guessing.
Why ChatGPT Recommends Your Competitor and Not You
ChatGPT named a competitor instead of you. The reason is structural, not skill: they publish pages it can quote and you don't. Here are the 5 fixes that flip the recommendation, and how to pick someone to do it.
The Citation Cluster Method: How to Get Recommended by AI Engines in 2026
The exact 4-part system one niche site used to earn 144,321 Microsoft Copilot citations and 5,000+ daily Google clicks, with no ads, backlinks, or social.
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Check if AI sees you
How to audit whether ChatGPT, Claude, and Perplexity actually mention your business.
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Beat a competitor
Why AI recommends them instead of you, and how to close the gap.
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Get found by AI
What it takes to become the name ChatGPT, Claude, and Perplexity pass around.
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AI search basics
GEO, AEO, citation share, and how AI actually finds and quotes a page.
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Life after SEO
What changes when buyers ask AI instead of Googling, and what to do about it.
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The Citation Cluster Method
The method that got one small site cited at scale, explained and proven.
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Tools and courses
Honest rundowns of the tools, courses, and communities for getting cited by AI.
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Get more clients
Client-getting channels that still work now that search is changing.
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Local businesses
Getting named when someone asks an AI assistant who to hire in their area.
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Best Tools to Get Your Business Recommended by AI in 2026 (Not Just Tracked)
HubSpot AEO, BrightLocal, Surfeo, Frase, Yext Scout and the AI Visibility Tracker checked against the five things a tool should do to get you recommended by ChatGPT, and the one check none of them fully passes.
How to Benchmark Your AI Visibility Against a Specific Competitor (I Ran It on My Own Business)
Pick the questions your buyers ask, see who each AI engine names, read the sources behind the answer, then go look at what the winner has that you don't. I ran it on my own business this week. A competitor was named in 5 of 6 answers and I was named in none. Here is the grid, what was behind it, and what I'm doing about it.
Training a Marketing Team on Local AI Search: What I'd Teach in the First Hour
If an agency hired me to train their team on getting local clients named by AI in their city, I'd start with the map pack, not an AI tool. Then the sources each engine pulls from, the city's best-of lists, the review habit, and the Google Business Profile. Here is the order and why, plus which tools actually matter.
Which Platforms Help You Write Content AI Answer Engines Actually Pick Up? (And the Part None of Them Can Write)
There are two kinds of writing tool for AI answers: ones that get the structure right, and ones that get the first-hand part out of you. Structure is the easy half. Here is the difference, what to look for, and how I wrote ten pages in two days, mostly by talking instead of typing.
How to Build Your First Citation Cluster, Step by Step (What I Got Wrong on Mine)
The first citation cluster I built was 300 pages, got zero Google traffic, and still got cited by AI. Here is how I would build it today, in the order I do it for clients, with the mistake that would have saved me a month.
How to Find Out What People Ask AI About Your Expertise (If You're a Coach or Consultant)
You can't read ChatGPT's logs, and you don't need to. The engine builds its answer by asking the questions a person with context about your business would ask, and those are questions you already hear every week. Here is where to farm them from, in the order I'd do it, and how to check which ones name a competitor instead of you.
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