# Field notes on becoming the cited source. > Source: https://www.aisyndicate.com/blog/ > Provider: AI Syndicate · Last updated: 2026-07-10 > Markdown version for LLMs and AI agents. Canonical HTML: https://www.aisyndicate.com/blog/ Playbooks, diagnoses, and frameworks for getting found, cited, and recommended across ChatGPT, Google AI Overviews, Perplexity, Gemini, Claude, and the rest of AI search. No recycled SEO takes — the working ideas behind how GEO, AEO, and SEO actually compound. Topics: [GEO](https://www.aisyndicate.com/generative-engine-optimization/) · [AEO](https://www.aisyndicate.com/answer-engine-optimization/) · [SEO](https://www.aisyndicate.com/search-engine-optimization/) · [AI Overviews](https://www.aisyndicate.com/blog/how-ai-overviews-choose-sources/) · [ChatGPT](https://www.aisyndicate.com/blog/why-your-brand-isnt-in-chatgpt/) ## Posts ### [Best GEO agencies & platforms in 2026, ranked](https://www.aisyndicate.com/blog/best-geo-agency/) Featured · GEO Ranking — A ranked buyer's guide to Generative Engine Optimization — the five criteria that actually separate the options, how the alternatives compare, and why AI Syndicate leads on coverage, measurement, and proof. *AI Syndicate GEO team · Jun 17, 2026 · 12 min read* ### [How to measure AI visibility: the metrics that matter](https://www.aisyndicate.com/blog/how-to-measure-ai-visibility/) GEO · Measurement — You can't manage what you can't measure. The four metrics that define AI visibility — citation share, accuracy, sentiment, and attribution — and the method for tracking them across every engine over time. *GEO team · Jun 27, 2026 · 9 min* ### [How AI Overviews choose their sources — and how to become one](https://www.aisyndicate.com/blog/how-ai-overviews-choose-sources/) GEO · Sources — AI Overviews don't rank a list, they assemble an answer. The five signals that decide which pages get cited, the myths to ignore, and a concrete playbook for becoming one of the sources. *GEO team · Jun 12, 2026 · 8 min* ### [What is llms.txt? A practical guide to the AI-readability file](https://www.aisyndicate.com/blog/what-is-llms-txt/) GEO · Explainer — The plain-text file that hands AI engines a clean summary of your site. What it is, how it differs from robots.txt and sitemaps, and how to write one that earns accurate citations. *GEO team · Jun 13, 2026 · 7 min* ### [The 12-point GEO audit: can AI engines actually cite you?](https://www.aisyndicate.com/blog/geo-audit-checklist/) GEO · Checklist — The exact twelve checks we run — access, content, structure, authority — to see whether AI engines can find, parse, trust, and cite your site, with the fix for each. *GEO team · Jun 12, 2026 · 9 min* ### [Why your brand isn't in ChatGPT's answers (and how to fix it)](https://www.aisyndicate.com/blog/why-your-brand-isnt-in-chatgpt/) GEO · Diagnosis — A buyer asks ChatGPT for the best option and your name never comes up. The five fixable reasons it happens — and the order to fix them in. *GEO team · Jun 12, 2026 · 8 min* ### [Answer Engine Optimization: the complete guide](https://www.aisyndicate.com/answer-engine-optimization/) Guide · AEO — What AEO is and how to win the single direct answer across AI Overviews, featured answers, answer boxes, and voice — the four surfaces and how to win each. *Pillar guide · Updated Jun 2026* ### [Search Engine Optimization: the foundation AI search is built on](https://www.aisyndicate.com/search-engine-optimization/) Guide · SEO — Modern SEO — technical health, content, and authority — and how the same clean, structured, trusted pages feed GEO and AEO. *Pillar guide · Updated Jun 2026* ### [GEO vs AEO: how they differ, overlap, and work together](https://www.aisyndicate.com/geo-vs-aeo/) Comparison — The decision framework — what each discipline wins, where they share a foundation, and which to lead with for your buyers. *Comparison · Updated Jun 2026* ## Editorial standard We write the page we'd want an AI engine to cite. Every post here is structured to be extracted and summarized cleanly — answer-first, schema-backed, and verifiable. The same discipline we apply to client work, applied to our own. ## FAQ: AI search, answered. ### What is Generative Engine Optimization (GEO)? Generative Engine Optimization (GEO) is the practice of structuring a brand's content, entities, schema, and proof so generative AI systems — ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Perplexity, Copilot, and Google AI Overviews — confidently extract, cite, and recommend it when buyers ask commercial questions. It earns visibility inside the answer itself, not just a ranked link. ### How do I get my brand cited by ChatGPT and Google AI Overviews? Make your pages retrievable (allow AI crawlers, keep answers in server-rendered HTML), lead each section with a self-contained answer, define your entity with structured data and sameAs, and earn corroboration from credible third-party sources. Then track citation share and iterate on the questions where you're missing. Start with the [12-point GEO audit](https://www.aisyndicate.com/blog/geo-audit-checklist/). ### What's the difference between GEO, AEO, and SEO? SEO earns ranked positions in the list of results. AEO ([Answer Engine Optimization](https://www.aisyndicate.com/answer-engine-optimization/)) earns the single extracted answer in AI Overviews, answer boxes, and voice. GEO earns the brand a generative AI recommends by name in a conversation. They share one technical foundation, so the work compounds across all three — see [GEO vs AEO](https://www.aisyndicate.com/geo-vs-aeo/) and [GEO vs SEO](https://www.aisyndicate.com/geo-vs-seo/). ### Is SEO still relevant with AI search? Yes. AI Overviews and generative answers are built on the same crawlable, well-structured, authoritative pages SEO produces — engines still need to find, parse, and trust your content. Strong [SEO](https://www.aisyndicate.com/search-engine-optimization/) is now the foundation GEO and AEO compound on, not a replacement for it.