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About the author

Ed Grows

Founder of citelity · also runs aivario.com, an AI tools directory

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What this blog is for

citelity helps people who own content sites find the pages AI answers have stopped sending them traffic for, fix those pages, and measure what changed in Search Console and GA4. The blog is the working notes behind that: how ChatGPT, Google AI Overviews, Perplexity, Gemini and Claude pick their sources, and how to tell why clicks fell.

How the articles are made

  • Every claim links to its source. Studies, vendor documentation and Google's own pages are linked where they are cited, and listed at the end of each article.
  • AI-assisted, source-checked. Research and drafting use AI tools. Each statistic, date and quote is checked against its primary source before publishing, and again when an article is updated.
  • Opinion is labelled as opinion. Where nothing has been measured, the article says so instead of inventing a number.
  • Corrections are dated. When something changes, the article says what changed and when, at the end. The date at the top is the last real update.

Spotted something wrong? Write to hello@citelity.com and it gets checked and fixed.

Articles 22

  1. Claude-SearchBot vs ClaudeBot vs Claude-User: what to allowUpdated Oct 1, 2026
  2. SaaS AEO strategy: decision-stage content that gets citedUpdated Oct 1, 2026
  3. Tracking AI citations: how many runs make a rate you can trustUpdated Oct 1, 2026
  4. AI Overview citation disappeared: is it real or just noise?Updated Oct 1, 2026
  5. Article schema with author: the Person markup and the bio page behind itUpdated Oct 1, 2026
  6. BreadcrumbList JSON-LD in the Next.js App RouterUpdated Oct 1, 2026
  7. Google-Extended vs Googlebot: what actually controls Gemini citationsUpdated Oct 1, 2026
  8. Indie founder SEO: what building in public can and can't do for a new domainUpdated Oct 1, 2026
  9. Best AEO tools in 2026: prices checked, limits stated, written by a competitorUpdated Oct 1, 2026
  10. Review schema for affiliate sites, after Google's incentivized-review ruleUpdated Oct 1, 2026
  11. Zero-click search: 68% of US searches end on Google. Which pages lose most?Updated Oct 1, 2026
  12. AEO content checklist: 47 checks, from crawler access to quarterly upkeepUpdated Oct 1, 2026
  13. AEO for affiliate sites: the citation and recovery playbookUpdated Oct 1, 2026
  14. AEO vs SEO on a small site: which to do first, and how to split the hoursUpdated Oct 1, 2026
  15. How to get into Google AI Overviews now that the top 10 isn't the gateUpdated Oct 1, 2026
  16. How Perplexity picks its sources, and the two bots behind itUpdated Oct 1, 2026
  17. Does GEO work? The KDD paper vs the C-SEO Bench replicationUpdated Oct 1, 2026
  18. How to get cited by ChatGPT: OpenAI's index, its bots and the oddsUpdated Oct 1, 2026
  19. FAQ rich results are gone (May 2026): what FAQ markup still does and doesn't doUpdated Oct 1, 2026
  20. Schema markup and AI Overviews: what Google actually saysUpdated Oct 1, 2026
  21. Clicks dropped but rankings didn't: how to tell an AI Overview from a core update in Search ConsoleUpdated Oct 1, 2026
  22. Answer engine optimization (AEO): what it is and what gets a page citedUpdated Oct 1, 2026