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EU AI Act Chatbot Transparency: What Article 50 Requires from 2 August 2026
From 2 August 2026, Article 50 of the EU AI Act requires telling users they're talking to an AI. What the rule says, who is liable, and the Article 99 fines.
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When AI Says Something False About Your Brand: What You Can Actually Fix
ChatGPT or AI Overviews says something false about your company? You can't force a correction — but you can detect it, fix the sources upstream, and measure it.
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Multilingual GEO: How AI Citations Change With the Language You Ask In
AI engines cite different sources in Italian, Spanish or English — and the click benchmarks most marketers quote were measured only in the US. Why native-language measurement is not optional.
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AI Crawlers Guide: GPTBot, ClaudeBot and robots.txt in 2026
What GPTBot, OAI-SearchBot, ClaudeBot and PerplexityBot each do, why none of them execute JavaScript, and how to configure robots.txt bot by bot.
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AI Search Adoption in Europe: What the 2026 Data Shows
ChatGPT search reached 120.4 million monthly EU users, and 68.01% of Google searches ended without a click to the open web in early 2026 (US clickstream data).
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The AI visibility checklist
A practical, block-by-block checklist to make your business easy for ChatGPT, Gemini and Perplexity to find, understand and recommend.
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AI Visibility Tools in 2026: Pricing, Coverage and Limits
Pricing for 7 AI visibility tools, July 2026: from Otterly at $29/month to Ahrefs Brand Radar at $699/month, with engines covered and hidden limits.
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How to Write Citable Content for AI: What the GEO Paper Proves
Princeton's GEO paper measured what earns AI citations: sources, quotes and statistics lifted answer share 30-40%. Here is the evidence, and its limits.
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GEO vs SEO: What the Data Says About AI Citations and Rankings
Only 12% of AI-cited URLs rank in Google's top 10, yet page-1 rankings correlate ~0.65 with LLM mentions. What the data says about GEO vs SEO.
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How AI Engines Cite Sources: ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, Claude
Which indexes ChatGPT, Perplexity, Google AI Overviews and Claude cite from, the most-cited domains, and the changes that raise visibility up to 40%.
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What Is llms.txt and Does Anything Actually Read It?
llms.txt is a proposed markdown index for AI models. Google says it will not use it, and Ahrefs found 97% of published files get zero requests.
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How to Show Up in ChatGPT and AI Search as a Local Business
86% of AI citations come from sources you control, yet ChatGPT recommends just 1.2% of the 350,000 locations SOCi measured. What to fix first.
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How to Measure AI Visibility: Sample Sizes and Honest Baselines
A 9.5% vs 6.0% citation share looks like a win until the confidence intervals overlap. How many repeats you actually need to measure AI visibility.
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Does Schema Markup Help AI Citations? What the Evidence Shows
Ahrefs found AI-cited pages carry JSON-LD almost 3x more often, yet its controlled test showed no causal uplift. What schema really does for AI visibility.
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Technical SEO Foundations for AI Search in 2026
No major AI crawler rendered JavaScript in Vercel's Dec 2024 study; within AI Overview queries a citation earns +120% more clicks per impression than none.
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What Is GEO? Generative Engine Optimization, Explained
GEO is how content gets cited by ChatGPT, Perplexity and AI Overviews. Origin of the term, tactics that lift presence inside answers up to 40%, where to start.
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WhatsApp Automation for Small Business: API, Rules and Tools
WhatsApp passed 3 billion monthly users. How an SMB automates it with the Cloud API, n8n or Make: 24-hour window, templates and per-message pricing.
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How to check whether ChatGPT recommends your business
A simple, honest way to see how AI assistants describe and recommend your company today — no tools required, in about ten minutes.
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How AI assistants decide which companies to recommend
When someone asks ChatGPT or Gemini "who should I work with?", the answer isn't random. Here is what actually shapes it — in plain language.
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