AI Overviews and AI answers: what actually gets cited
Google says AI Overviews need no special optimization. What Google, Microsoft and GEO research say earns citations in AI answers, and what to skip.
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Practical, sourced guides on ranking in search and AI answers, checking AI drafts, planning a calendar and running content with a small team.
Google says AI Overviews need no special optimization. What Google, Microsoft and GEO research say earns citations in AI answers, and what to skip.
MCP lets ChatGPT, Claude, Grok and Cursor plan and draft content in your tools. How it works, what agents should do, and why a person still approves.
Fact-checking an AI draft works best claim by claim: gather evidence first, list every checkable claim, verify each against a source, then fix or cut it.
A content approval workflow for a small team needs three roles, one review queue, a pre-approval checklist and strict limits on auto-approval.
An editorial mix sets target shares and spacing for formats, pillars and subjects, so a calendar rotates. Rules and examples for six kinds of site.
Use 3 to 8 internal links per 1,000 words, anchors of 2 to 8 words, no repeated anchors, a link to the pillar page and none to orphans. Here's why.
Google Search ignores llms.txt, so it won't lift rankings. It is cheap to add and useful for AI agents and developer docs. Here is when to bother.
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