Generative Engine Optimization (GEO)
Search Engine Land is your go-to-source source for Generative Engine Optimization (GEO) news, trends, and cutting-edge content. You’ll find a variety of up-to-date and authoritative resources, including the latest news, tactic-rich tutorials, and the latest data to help you work smarter and make better decisions.
What you read here is written by our experienced in-house team, and subject matter experts from leading brands and agencies at the forefront of AI in search marketing.
Google AI Overviews: Breaking down innovations
Explore detailed insights into Google’s latest advancements in AI-powered search features, such as Google AI Overviews. From updates on how these tools shape search results to actionable tips for SEOs to maximize visibility, we cover the strategies you need to stay ahead.
Bing Generative Search: A competitive edge
Stay informed on Microsoft’s groundbreaking work in Bing Generative Search. Dive into news stories that explore the latest in generative AI’s impact on Bing and how marketers can leverage this technology to gain a competitive advantage.
Emerging AI search platforms: Expanding possibilities
The rise of new AI-driven tools is reshaping the search landscape beyond traditional players. Platforms like Perplexity AI and Microsoft Copilot offer innovative approaches to search, focusing on conversational, context-rich results tailored to user intent. Semrush Enterprise AIO lets you monitor brand visibility in AI-generated content, with eyes on everything from brand sentiment to how competitors are doing.
These tools showcase how emerging platforms can complement existing strategies, helping marketers harness the full potential of AI to drive engagement and efficiency.
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SEO vs. AI search: 101 questions that keep me up at night
Here's why treating ChatGPT like Google will guarantee your failure in the age of RAG, reranking, and probabilistic systems.
Why AI availability is the new battleground for brands
GEO redefines visibility through AI availability – how likely your brand is to be recognized and recommended by AI systems.
FLUQs: Answer the hidden questions or vanish in AI search
Your brand isn’t competing for rankings anymore. The name of the game is reuse.
GEO startup Lorelight shuts down: ‘The problem didn’t need solving’
Lorelight’s closure has SEOs saying GEO is just SEO. Maybe. But that might just be the hype cycle doing its usual crash-and-correct.
7 focus areas as AI transforms search and the customer journey in 2026
AI is reshaping how people search, decide, and buy. Discover the key shifts defining 2026 and how to stay visible everywhere.
The new SEO sales tactic: Selling the AI dream
Agencies are repackaging old SEO fundamentals as “AI SEO.” Here’s how to spot what’s truly new versus what’s just clever rebranding.
Search Engine Land Awards 2025: And the winners are…
Here are all the individuals, agencies and in-house teams who have earned Search Engine Land awards for excellence in SEO and PPC in 2025.
Black hat GEO is real – Here’s why you should pay attention
AI-driven search has enabled large-scale manipulation. Here’s how it happens, what Google’s doing, and why best practices still win.
ChatGPT, LLM referrals convert worse than Google Search: Study
ChatGPT’s shopping traffic is growing fast, but a new study says it won’t catch Google Search in conversions or revenue anytime soon.
Engineering the AI resume: SEO’s new path to the C-suite
As brand SERPs give way to AI-generated profiles, SEOs must rethink visibility, trust, and reputation for a new era of search and strategy.
How AI media partnerships influence your brand visibility in genAI: Research
Only 7.2% of domains appear in both Google AI Overviews and LLM results. Here’s what that gap means for your SEO strategy.
The future of SEO: Why optimization still matters, whatever you call it
Search Engine Land still believes in SEO. But search is evolving. Here’s why we talk about GEO, what it means, and why we welcome the debate.
The AI Visibility Index: Here’s who’s winning AI search
Search is evolving faster than anyone predicted as AI platforms like ChatGPT and Google’s AI Mode redefine how information is discovered.
How to plan for GEO in 2026 and evolve your search strategy
GEO is changing where discovery happens – from search engines to social and AI. The brands that plan now will own visibility in 2026.
ChatGPT performs a search in 31% of prompts, new data reveals
ChatGPT’s search queries averaged 5.48 words – and more than three-quarters were five words or longer, a new Nectiv study finds.
How to know if your GEO is working
GEO performance comes down to proof. Share of search, buyer intent, and prompt visibility show whether your strategy is creating real demand.
AI KPIs: Turning mentions into strategy in the age of LLMs
From mentions to sentiment, new AI KPIs show marketers how LLMs shape visibility, perception and authority in the buying journey.
How different AI engines generate and cite answers
See how ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, Claude, and DeepSeek differ in data sources, live web use, citation rules, and more.
Your crawl budget is costing you revenue in the AI search era
Are you wasting crawl budget on the wrong pages? Learn how to protect revenue with smarter crawl strategies.
Forget the Great Decoupling – SEO’s Great Normalization has begun
The chase for empty traffic is over. SEO success now depends on intent-driven content, grounded visibility, and proof of business value.
How to measure and maximize visibility in AI search
Rankings still matter, but AI visibility is rising fast. Learn how to measure and maximize your presence in ChatGPT, AI Overviews, and more.
ChatGPT becomes a platform for apps – and maybe marketing
You can now access apps like Spotify, Canva, and Zillow inside ChatGPT. This could turn the chatbot into a powerful new marketing channel.
Holiday ecommerce to hit record $253 billion – here’s what’s driving it
Mobile, AI, social media and big discounts are transforming how Americans shop online this holiday season, according to Adobe’s forecast.
Optimizing content for generative engines: 17 actionable tips
Make your content easier for generative engines to cite and summarize – without giving up the SEO fundamentals that still drive visibility.
The end of SEO-PPC silos: Building a unified search strategy for the AI era
AI-driven search is blurring the line between organic and paid. Learn how uniting SEO and PPC boosts visibility, intent, and brand authority.
Google sends 831x more visitors than AI systems: Report
AI bots outpace Microsoft Bing in traffic, but send almost no visitors, driving up publisher costs and fueling new content access battles.
Organizing content for AI search: A 3-level framework
Google's FastSearch and RankEmbed reveal why clarity drives AI visibility. Here's how to strengthen the signals that count.
Google’s Liz Reid: AI isn’t replacing search – it’s augmenting it
User queries are longer, deep clicks are rising, and creators who offer rich, trusted content will benefit most, Reid said in an interview.
Thriving in AI search starts with SEO fundamentals
Good SEO fuels AI answers. From strategy to structure, see how to evolve your approach for visibility across AI platforms.
OpenAI turns ChatGPT into a shopping tool with Instant Checkout
ChatGPT debuts in-chat shopping for U.S. users. This is OpenAI's first step toward agentic commerce – and it could reshape ecommerce.
How AI search responds when you make a site more crawlable
Crawl waste cleanup boosted AI search visibility by up to 10% – with a small ChatGPT dip. Sitemap fixes and IA clarity drove results.
What the AI Visibility Index tells us about LLMs & search
Discover how LLM visibility is reshaping SEO. Learn to track brand mentions in AI responses, new metrics beyond rankings, and optimization strategies for 2025.
Google is still 210x bigger than ChatGPT in search
ChatGPT handles 66 million search-like prompts daily vs. 14 billion Google searches. AI is growing, but Google search still dominates.
Rethinking the funnel with LLM tracking analytics
As customer journeys migrate into LLMs, you need new ways to track behavior. Here’s how LLM tracking tools approach the problem.
The origins of SEO and what they mean for GEO and AIO
The story of how SEO got its name reveals why AI-era acronyms – AIO, GEO, AEO – face the same challenges of credit, clarity, and consensus.
AI Overview citations: Why they don’t drive clicks and what to do
Data from 20,000+ queries shows AI Overviews match Position 6 results – offering high visibility, but far fewer clicks than blue links.
Your GEO content audit template
Your old SEO checklist won’t cut it. This GEO content audit template helps position your brand as AI’s go-to source.
Schema and AI Overviews: Does structured data improve visibility?
A head-to-head schema experiment uncovers whether well-implemented structured data gives pages an edge in Google AI Overviews.
The must-have social media tool for multi-location brands in 2026
Learn about Rallio, the latest in AI-powered social media tools, igniting online visibility.
Hidden prompt injection: The black hat trick AI outgrew
Invisible prompts once tricked AI like old SEO hacks. Here’s how LLMs filter hidden commands and protect against manipulation.