Generative Engine Optimization

How Should an Agency Scope an AEO Audit?

Before an AEO audit runs, agree what it covers: the client decision, pages, buyer questions, checks and engines. A scope sheet informed by our own Radar runs.

Oct 30, 2026

Your Next SEO Task Needs a Reason: Write an Action Brief

Turn one SEO or AI visibility finding into a task with a reason: evidence, an owner, the fix and an acceptance check, worked through our own Radar audit.

Oct 20, 2026

Why Radar Scores May Move After Our ChatGPT Model Change

OpenAI is retiring the gpt-4o-mini snapshot Radar used, so Radar's ChatGPT results now use gpt-6-luna. What we tested, what we fixed, and why scores may move.

Oct 16, 2026

Is This AI Report About Your Client's Business?

Before you act on an AI visibility identity finding, check whose business it describes. Four checks for agencies, in order, tested on a wrong-company audit.

Oct 15, 2026

The Evidence Standard Every AI Visibility Report Should Meet

Our proposed AI Visibility Evidence Standard, v1: eight things every AI visibility report should disclose, tested on a real Radar audit of our own site.

Sep 25, 2026

One Page, 64,191 Impressions, Zero Clicks in 87 Days

A page took 64,191 Search Console impressions and zero clicks in 87 days. What the data shows, what it cannot show, and why it explained none of our lost traffic.

Sep 10, 2026

Before You Hire a GEO Agency: 4 Green Flags and 5 Red Flags

How to evaluate a GEO agency before you sign. Four green flags, five red flags, and the baseline evidence any credible AI search partner should show you first.

Aug 2, 2026

What a Wrong-Company Audit Taught Us About AI Visibility

An AI visibility audit can look credible while measuring the wrong company. What one failure taught us about entity resolution and audit integrity.

Jul 31, 2026

We Audit AI Visibility for a Living. So We Audited Ourselves.

Can you trust the score an AI visibility tool gives you, tomorrow as well as today? We test our own scoring weekly and audited our whole stack. Here is the proof.

Jul 22, 2026

AEO Score Explained: What It Measures and How to Improve It

What is a good AEO score? See what AEO checkers actually measure, how grades work, real data from 59 audits, and the fixes that raise a failing score.

Jul 18, 2026

Decision-Stage AI Visibility: The Engines Buyers Ask

Buyers ask AI which option to choose before they reach your site. Decision-stage AI visibility is whether you win that recommendation, not just appear.

Jul 12, 2026

What Does Grok Say About Your Brand? We Checked. It Got Ours Wrong.

Grok answers brand questions for 117M monthly users per the SpaceX S-1. We measured what it says, and it got our own brand wrong. Check yours today.

Jul 9, 2026

No Brand Controls Its AI Recommendations. Measure This Instead

You cannot control what AI recommends about your brand. Here is why AI answers are volatile by design, and the five things to measure instead.

Jun 28, 2026

AI Visibility Is an Evidence Architecture Problem, Not a Content Volume Problem

Publishing more content will not make you visible in AI answers. Evidence architecture, your claims, entities, sources, and structure, is what gets you cited.

Jun 27, 2026

A Score You Can Defend: How Radar Scores AI Visibility

Most AI visibility scores are opaque grades you cannot defend. Here is how Radar scores AI visibility in three separated layers, with a trail behind every number.

Jun 25, 2026

Google Preferred Sources: The User-Controlled AEO Lever

Google Preferred Sources is the one AI visibility lever your audience controls, not the model. Here is how it works, who qualifies, and how to earn it.

Jun 23, 2026

Google Says You Don't Need llms.txt. Here's the Catch.

Google says llms.txt is unnecessary. Chrome Lighthouse audits it anyway. We fact-checked five studies on what llms.txt really does for AI visibility in 2026.

Jun 12, 2026

Brand Disambiguation: When AI Confuses Your Brand With Someone Else

When AI engines link your brand to the wrong same-named entity, you still get cited, but the citation points at someone else. Here is how brand disambiguation fails and how to fix it.

Jun 5, 2026

Reddit Brand Monitor: What AI Learns About You on Reddit

Reddit is the most-cited source in AI answers. The Reddit Brand Monitor finds what is said about your brand there, scores it, and flags AI-generated seeded posts.

Jun 4, 2026

YouTube Brand Monitor: What AI Hears About Your Brand

The YouTube Brand Monitor tracks what is said about your brand on YouTube, scores it on five dimensions, and reads the actual transcripts so you see the coverage AI models may draw on.

Jun 4, 2026

How Radar Fix Prompts and the AI Advisor Fix Your AEO

A failing AEO score is only useful if you can fix it. Here is how Radar fix prompts and the AI advisor turn audit findings into shipped fixes, no rewrite required.

Jun 3, 2026

Why 9 in 10 Websites Fail AEO (And How to Fix It)

We analyzed 59 real AEO audits from the Radar platform. The average score is 26 out of 100 and 9 in 10 sites scored below 40. Here is why, and how to fix yours.

Jun 3, 2026

AI Monitoring vs AI Technical Readiness: Why You Need Both (2026)

AI monitoring tracks what AI says about your brand. AI technical readiness checks whether AI can reach and read your site. Some tools now do both. Here is how the stack fits together.

May 29, 2026

Google Information Agents and Content Freshness (Dated Note)

A dated note on what Google announced about information agents at I/O 2026, what we inferred about freshness, and why we no longer present that inference as fact.

May 25, 2026

Gemini, YouTube and AI Visibility: A Dated Note on What Changed and When

A dated note on Gemini 2.5 and YouTube video understanding: the real 2025 dates, what our YouTube Brand Monitor measures, and the claims we withdrew in October 2026.

May 15, 2026

Radar Assessed 50 Known Brands for AI Readiness. Scores Ran From 4 to 88.

First findings from the Radar Brand Index. 50 named brands assessed with Radar's AI Readiness Score. Stripe and BetterUp lead at 88/100. Hims and Hers hit 4/100. Radar could not scan three of them at all. Here is what the data says.

May 9, 2026

Your AI Visibility Score Is Meaningless Without Live LLM Queries

Static AI SEO checks never query an LLM. They infer visibility from proxies. Static analysis cannot tell you what ChatGPT says about your brand. Only asking ChatGPT can.

May 5, 2026

From Free Check to AI Visibility Strategy: Which Next Step Fits Your Team?

After a free AI visibility check: when one $5 audit is enough, when a pack or Pro fits, and when to hand the work to a strategy sprint. Prices as of October 2026.

Apr 22, 2026

Radar is GA: A 6-Tool Free Tier, $199 Retainer, and What We Shipped

Radar by Pixelmojo is generally available. Free tier runs 6 technical readiness tools. Paid from $5 per audit unlocks 7 more LLM-powered tools. Here is the launch story and the pricing logic.

Apr 19, 2026

One Audit, 13 Tools: What Radar Finds That Separate Checks Miss

How a Radar audit runs 13 AI visibility tools in staged batches, reads their results together, and orders the fixes. What one audit catches that separate checks miss.

Apr 15, 2026

We Analyzed 82 Real AI Visibility Audits. Here Is What the Data Shows.

Original benchmark data from 82 real Radar platform audits across 6 core industries. Average AI readiness score: 45/100. Only 1 domain has scored an A so far. Here are the findings.

Apr 12, 2026

How to Track AI Citations: A Practical Guide to ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude & Gemini

Track what ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude, and Gemini say about your brand. Free and paid methods, tools compared, and step-by-step setup.

Apr 11, 2026

Best AI Visibility Tools (2026): 10 Options Compared

Compare 10 AI visibility tools with pricing checked in September 2026: engines tracked, AI crawler and llms.txt checks, free options, and how to choose.

Apr 10, 2026

Your SEO Is Fine. Your AI Visibility Needs Its Own Measurement.

Rankings and backlinks do not show what ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini or Perplexity say about you. What SEO tools measure, what AI answers need, and how to check both.

Apr 9, 2026

What Is AI Technical Readiness? (And Why Monitoring Alone Is Not Enough)

AI Technical Readiness is the infrastructure layer that ensures AI can crawl, parse, and cite your site. Monitoring shows symptoms. Technical readiness checks the infrastructure behind them.

Apr 8, 2026

Why We Built Radar: The Commit Trail Behind Our Own AI Visibility Fixes

How fixes on our own site became Radar, told from the git history: what we changed from October 2025 to March 2026, and what that history cannot prove.

Apr 5, 2026

Radar's First Beta Weeks: What Our Records Show (Dated Note)

A dated note on Radar's private beta, 16 March to 2 April 2026: who requested access, what we recorded, and why we withdrew the "50 users" figure.

Apr 2, 2026

Radar v2: From Technical Audit to AI Intelligence Platform

Radar now runs 13 AI visibility tools in staged batches with DIY implementation features: AI prompt generator, 5 implementation threads, llms.txt and schema generators, single-tool re-verify, and progress tracking. Audit, understand, fix.

Mar 30, 2026

We Built 2 Tools to Test If AI Engines Cite Your Pages

AEO Page Auditor scores pages for answer engine readiness. Answer Engine Citation Tester checks if AI engines cite your URL. Both now generate AI-ready implementation prompts via Radar.

Mar 28, 2026

How to Use Radar: Free Check, Full Audit, and AI Visibility Fixes

How to use Radar as of October 2026: run the free technical check, unlock the full 13-tool audit, read the evidence in AI answers, and turn findings into fixes.

Mar 28, 2026

How We Retrofitted 21 Posts With StatBlocks and Speakable Schema (Dated Note)

A dated note on our 27 March 2026 blog retrofit: what we changed in 21 posts, what we expected it to do for AI citations, and what the evidence since says.

Mar 27, 2026

AI Visibility Stack: How We Monitor SEO, GEO and LLMs (2026)

How we use Radar, Vector, and Hive to monitor AI visibility across SEO, GEO, and LLM channels. Real GSC data and the 3-layer monitoring framework.

Mar 22, 2026

We Built a Platform to Run Our AI Search Playbook in One Audit

Radar by Pixelmojo runs 13 AI visibility tools in staged batches, generates cross-tool insights, and produces AI-ready implementation prompts you paste into Claude, ChatGPT, or Cursor.

Mar 17, 2026

How Our AI Bot Policy Changed, November 2025 to October 2026 (Dated Note)

A dated note on how pixelmojo.io's robots.txt treated AI crawlers from November 2025 to October 2026, and why we withdrew the claim that blocking them raised citations.

Mar 6, 2026

The AI Discoverability Stack: Four Features That Make Our Site Machine-Readable

Four features we built so AI agents and search engines can read our site directly: connected JSON-LD, an MCP endpoint, a knowledge API and one-source FAQ.

Mar 4, 2026

10 Free AI Visibility Tools to Test Your Site (2026)

Check how ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Claude see your website. 10 AI visibility tools (most free, AEO page auditor and citation tracker from $5): bot access checker, robots.txt analyzer, citation tracker, Reddit monitor, YouTube monitor, llms.txt validator, llms.txt generator, AI readiness scorer, AEO page auditor, and answer engine citation tester.

Feb 27, 2026

How We Built a Knowledge Graph That LLMs Actually Cite (With Real Data)

We built a cross-site knowledge graph connecting two domains via JSON-LD entity linking. Here is the architecture, the code patterns, and the real analytics from the first week.

Feb 25, 2026

GEO Playbook: Access, Content and Measurement for ChatGPT, Perplexity and Claude

What you can control in generative engine optimization as of October 2026: AI crawler access, quotable pages, a clear entity, and measurement that does not fool you.

Feb 17, 2026

Google Traffic Dropped 33%? What the AI-Search Shift Means

Organic clicks are falling as AI answers replace search. Where your traffic actually went, what the shift means, and how to recover.

Feb 17, 2026

Your llms.txt Is Already Stale. Here's How to Fix It.

Static llms.txt files go stale the moment you publish new content. This guide covers what llms.txt actually does, why 844K sites got it wrong, and how to build a dynamic version in Next.js.

Feb 17, 2026

What We Changed for AI Search by February 2026 (Dated Note)

A dated note on the changes we made to our own site for AI search between October 2025 and February 2026, and the results claims we withdrew in October 2026.

Feb 17, 2026

SEO vs AEO vs GEO: From Ranking in Search to Becoming the Recommended Brand

Learn the difference between SEO, AEO, and GEO, and how brands can move from ranking in search to being cited in answers and recommended by AI engines.

Feb 17, 2026

AI-Native vs Traditional Design Agency: How to Choose in 2026

How AI-native and traditional design agencies differ in process, pricing and fit, how to test an agency's AI claims, and what to ask before you sign. As of October 2026.

Sep 28, 2025

How to Build a Brand That AI Search Engines Cite

5 branding strategies optimized for ChatGPT, Perplexity, and AI Overviews. Build a brand AI search engines actually cite and recommend.

Jun 12, 2025

What is Generative Engine Optimization (GEO)?

Generative Engine Optimization (GEO) is the practice of structuring web content so AI search engines like ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, and Gemini cite it in their responses. Unlike SEO which optimizes for keyword rankings, GEO optimizes for entity recognition, structured data, and citation probability.

What is Answer Engine Optimization (AEO)?

Answer Engine Optimization (AEO) is the practice of structuring web content so AI engines can extract and cite it as a complete answer. AEO focuses on extraction-friendly formatting: BLUF paragraphs, FAQPage schema, HTML comparison tables, and speakable schema.

AEO vs GEO vs SEO: which one matters in 2026?

All three matter, but for different buyer behaviors. SEO captures Google search traffic. GEO builds entity authority that AI engines cite. AEO formats content for extraction by AI answer engines. B2B SaaS teams need all three; consumer brands prioritize SEO; emerging AI-native teams prioritize GEO + AEO.

How do I show up in Google AI Overviews?

AI Overviews pull from the same Google index as regular Search, so the path in is standard SEO: crawlable pages, strong E-E-A-T signals, and content with original insight. Google confirmed in May 2026 that no special files, markup, or AI-specific rewrites are required.

What is AI visibility?

AI visibility is whether AI engines like ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, and Gemini can find, describe, and recommend your brand when buyers ask about your category. It has two layers: the answer stage, whether you appear and get cited, and the decision stage, whether you are the name the engine picks.

How do I get cited by Perplexity?

Perplexity cites sources it crawls + ranks for the live query. To get cited: allow PerplexityBot in robots.txt, ship answer-first content (BLUF paragraphs under question-shaped headings), and acquire citations from high-authority domains Perplexity already ranks.