AI Search & Citation Playbooks

Long-form guides on getting your business visible in ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, and Claude. Free to read. Written for small business owners, not enterprise marketers.

How to Get Cited by ChatGPT

7-step playbook · ~2,800 words

How ChatGPT actually decides what to cite, what works to influence it, and what doesn't. Includes a step-by-step setup for small businesses plus an anti-playbook of tactics that waste time.

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How to Get Cited by Perplexity

7-step playbook · ~2,800 words

Perplexity is different from ChatGPT (citation-transparent, search-first, recency-weighted). Here is the specific playbook for getting your small business into its answer-with-sources flow.

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Generative Engine Optimization for Small Business

Foundational guide · ~2,700 words

The conceptual layer. What GEO is, how it differs from SEO and AEO, why it matters now, and the 8-step playbook for small businesses. Read this first if the terminology around AI search confuses you.

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AI Search Optimization (90-day tactical plan)

Tactical guide · ~3,100 words

For owner-operators with five hours a week. A week-one checklist plus a 90-day playbook broken into 4-week phases. The actionable companion to the GEO foundational guide.

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Want to know where your business actually stands in AI search right now? Start with the $99 AI Visibility Report. It shows how ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and Perplexity describe you today and what to fix first.