Author: seotips

Three acronyms dominate every SEO conversation in 2026: SEO, AEO, and GEO. Most explanations either treat them as synonyms or drown you in jargon. Neither helps you decide where to spend your time and budget. This guide gives you the honest version: what each discipline actually is, where they genuinely differ, where they overlap, and what to do first. Key Takeaways SEO gets you found in search results. AEO gets you quoted as the direct answer. GEO gets you cited inside AI-generated responses. AEO and GEO overlap but work through different mechanisms: answer extraction versus generative citation. AI Overviews use…

Google’s September 2026 spam update has finished rolling out, and it arrived with a twist: halfway through the rollout, Google rewrote its official guidance on AI-generated content. For anyone publishing with AI assistance — which today means most content teams — these two events belong together. The rollout told you what Google enforces. The guidance rewrite told you the standard it will hold you to. This post covers both, and what to do about them this week. Key Takeaways The September 2026 spam update ran from September 24 to October 8, 2026 — about 13 days and 16 hours, the…

As AI assistants send more referral traffic to websites, businesses are facing a new measurement problem: much of that traffic never shows up properly in analytics. Traditional acquisition reports can show rankings, clicks, and sessions, but visits from ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, and Perplexity often land in the wrong bucket — or in Direct, where they look like nothing at all. That is starting to change. Google’s Gemini has begun adding utm_source=gemini to some of its outbound links, giving site owners their first clean way to identify Gemini-referred visits in GA4. Key Takeaways Gemini has started adding utm_source=gemini to some outbound…