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Getting Your Product Into Google AI Overviews: What the Citation Data Actually Shows

Getting Your Product Into Google AI Overviews: What the Citation Data Actually Shows

A product team can do everything the old playbook asked for, climb to the top of page one for the queries that matter, and still watch the AI summary above those results recommend three competitors by name. The...

Mack McConnell
What Gets You Cited in Google AI Overviews: Signals, Structures, and What the Data Shows

What Gets You Cited in Google AI Overviews: Signals, Structures, and What the Data Shows

Every week at Geostar, we audit client sites and find the same pattern: pages that rank well in traditional search results but never appear in the AI-generated summary above them. The content is solid, the domain...

Mack McConnell
How to Rank in ChatGPT Search: What We've Learned Running GEO Campaigns

How to Rank in ChatGPT Search: What We've Learned Running GEO Campaigns

A buyer opens ChatGPT, types a question about the category you compete in, and reads back a shortlist of three companies. Your name is not on it. The buyer never visited a search results page, never scrolled past an...

Mack McConnell
LLM SEO: How to Get Your Content Cited in AI Search

LLM SEO: How to Get Your Content Cited in AI Search

ChatGPT processes 2.5 billion prompts every day. Perplexity and Claude handle millions more, and Google AI Overviews appear on over 13% of all queries. Behind every one of those prompts, an AI system is deciding...

Mack McConnell
What Is an SEO GEO Agency, and How Do You Choose the Right One?

What Is an SEO GEO Agency, and How Do You Choose the Right One?

If you are evaluating GEO agencies right now, you have probably noticed something odd about the search results for that exact query. Most of the top-ranking pages are agency roundup lists. Ten agencies, brief...

Mack McConnell
AI Citation Tracking: What It Is, Why It Matters, and How to Start

AI Citation Tracking: What It Is, Why It Matters, and How to Start

Every week, we run citation audits for clients who rank on the first page of Google for their most important keywords. Strong domain authority, clean technical foundations, content that performs. And in about half of...

Mack McConnell
How to Track AI Crawler Activity on Your Website

How to Track AI Crawler Activity on Your Website

Fifty-three percent of all web traffic in 2025 was automated . That number, from Imperva's annual Bad Bot Report, gets quoted in boardrooms and security briefings. What rarely follows is the more practical question...

Mack McConnell
How to Get Your Product in ChatGPT: A Practitioner's Guide for Brands That Want to Be Recommended

How to Get Your Product in ChatGPT: A Practitioner's Guide for Brands That Want to Be Recommended

Most product marketers we work with treat "getting cited by ChatGPT" and "getting recommended by ChatGPT" as the same problem. They are not. A brand can be cited inside a long ChatGPT explainer about, say, how CRMs...

Mack McConnell
Enhancing Brand Presence in AI Platforms: A Three-Pillar Framework That Actually Works

Enhancing Brand Presence in AI Platforms: A Three-Pillar Framework That Actually Works

For two decades, the job of search marketing was to rank a page. Get the blue link high enough on Google, and the click followed. That model still exists, but it no longer describes what most brand discovery looks...

Mack McConnell
How to Improve Brand Visibility in AI Search

How to Improve Brand Visibility in AI Search

Learn how earned mentions, citation-ready content, technical access, and platform-specific tactics work together to improve your brand's visibility in AI search.

Mack McConnell
AI Visibility Analytics Tools: What They Actually Measure and How to Choose

AI Visibility Analytics Tools: What They Actually Measure and How to Choose

AI visibility tools track mentions, citations, sentiment, and competitors. Learn what their metrics mean and how to choose a platform that fits your team.

Mack McConnell
How to Measure Brand Sentiment in AI-Generated Content

How to Measure Brand Sentiment in AI-Generated Content

Brand sentiment in AI-generated answers shapes recommendations and trust. Learn how to measure how models describe your brand and what to fix when they get it wrong.

Mack McConnell
Competitor Analysis for AI Search: How to Track and Outperform Rivals Across AI Platforms

Competitor Analysis for AI Search: How to Track and Outperform Rivals Across AI Platforms

Learn how to measure competitor visibility in AI search and turn the findings into a strategy for earning more recommendations.

Mack McConnell
Your Website Is Only 5% of Your AI Search Presence

Your Website Is Only 5% of Your AI Search Presence

AI search draws from far more than your website. Learn how to build a clear, consistent, and trusted digital presence that AI systems can understand and cite.

Mack McConnell
AI-Driven Marketing Strategies That Produce Measurable Results

AI-Driven Marketing Strategies That Produce Measurable Results

Six practical AI marketing strategies that help teams improve decisions, spend, and measurable campaign outcomes.

Mack McConnell
AI Search Performance Tracking Tools: A Practitioner's Guide for 2026

AI Search Performance Tracking Tools: A Practitioner's Guide for 2026

A practical guide to measuring AI search visibility, evaluating tracking tools, and building a reporting workflow that informs action.

Mack McConnell
GEO Best Practices: A Practitioner's Playbook for AI Search Visibility in 2026

GEO Best Practices: A Practitioner's Playbook for AI Search Visibility in 2026

GEO best practices for earning citations and improving brand visibility across AI search platforms in 2026.

Mack McConnell
Optimizing Content for AI Search Engines: A Complete Guide

Optimizing Content for AI Search Engines: A Complete Guide

AI referrals to top websites grew 357% year over year. Learn how to optimize your content so AI systems can find it, parse it, trust it, and cite it across ChatGPT, Perplexity, Google AI Overviews, and Claude.

Mack McConnell
The Complete Guide to the Impact of AI on Brand Visibility

The Complete Guide to the Impact of AI on Brand Visibility

AI search is redistributing brand visibility. 75% of people now use AI search tools more than last year. Learn what the data shows and how to adapt your strategy in 2026.

Mack McConnell
Analyzing AI-Driven Brand Mentions: The Complete 2026 Framework

Analyzing AI-Driven Brand Mentions: The Complete 2026 Framework

AI search traffic has grown 527% year over year. Learn the metrics, platform differences, and strategic frameworks you need to analyze AI brand mentions effectively in 2026.

Mack McConnell
The Words AI Can't Stop Using: Vocabulary & Lexical Patterns

The Words AI Can't Stop Using: Vocabulary & Lexical Patterns

We analyzed 186,000+ articles across five major AI models to map the vocabulary, sentence structures, and rhetorical patterns that distinguish machine-generated text from human writing.

Mack McConnell
The Complete Guide to Schema Markup for AI Search Optimization

The Complete Guide to Schema Markup for AI Search Optimization

Master schema markup for AI search success. Learn how structured data helps AI systems understand, cite, and recommend your content in 2025.

Mack McConnell
ChatGPT SEO: The Ultimate Guide to Getting Cited by OpenAI's Search in 2025

ChatGPT SEO: The Ultimate Guide to Getting Cited by OpenAI's Search in 2025

Master ChatGPT SEO and Generative Engine Optimization (GEO) to get your brand cited by AI search engines. Complete guide with proven strategies, technical implementation, and advanced techniques for dominating AI search visibility.

Mack McConnell
Complete Guide to Generative Engine Optimization (GEO) in 2025

Complete Guide to Generative Engine Optimization (GEO) in 2025

Master Generative Engine Optimization (GEO) in 2025: The complete guide to winning AI visibility across ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Google AI Overviews. Boost your brand citations by 156%.

Mack McConnell
Legal AI Visibility: How Law Firms Win with GEO

Legal AI Visibility: How Law Firms Win with GEO

How law firms can use GEO to appear in AI answers, earn citations across ChatGPT and Google AI Overviews, and convert higher-intent clients.

Mack McConnell
Winning in AI Visibility: The Ultimate Guide to Generative Engine Optimization (GEO) in 2025

Winning in AI Visibility: The Ultimate Guide to Generative Engine Optimization (GEO) in 2025

The definitive 2025 guide to Generative Engine Optimization (GEO): Master AI visibility across ChatGPT, Perplexity & Claude. Track citations, optimize content, and dominate AI search results.

Mack McConnell
The birth of AX (Agent Experience)

The birth of AX (Agent Experience)

Discover how AI agents view your brand. Master Agent Experience (AX) to stay visible in the new era of generative search.

Mack McConnell
How to Get Your Brand Mentioned by Perplexity?

How to Get Your Brand Mentioned by Perplexity?

Learn how to get your brand mentioned by Perplexity using AI-focused SEO strategies and Geostar's tools for visibility, citation, and content optimization.

Mack McConnell
Claude's Web Search: What Does It Mean for Your Brand?

Claude's Web Search: What Does It Mean for Your Brand?

Discover how Claude's real-time web search reshapes SEO and learn strategies to keep your brand visible in AI-driven results.

Mack McConnell
Manus AI and the Future of Search

Manus AI and the Future of Search

Manus AI disrupts search with autonomous decision-making. What does this agent revolution mean for your brand's visibility?

Mack McConnell