Learning paths: Growing a business
- Who it is for
- You want customers to find your brand when they ask AI assistants, and to know whether it is working.
- What you get
- A realistic plan: where your buyers ask, what you can influence, and how to measure it.
Reading order
- Generative Engine Optimization (GEO)What GEO can and cannot do for a brand.
- Google AI features vs ChatGPT search vs PerplexityPick the platforms your customers actually use.
- Which sources Chinese AI assistants citeFor the Chinese market: which sources Doubao, DeepSeek and others cite.
- Preferred sourcesLetting readers choose your site as a preferred source in Google.
- Organization structured dataMake your brand facts unambiguous to machines.
- People-first contentThe content that gets used is content written for buyers.
- Claim: seeding brand mentions across the web boosts AI visibilityBefore paying for mention seeding, read the evidence.
- Measuring AI visibility by sampling promptsMeasure visibility by sampling prompts, with honest error bars.
- Generative AI performance report: AI Overviews and AI Mode in Search ConsoleWhat Google's own AI performance data shows.
- Bing AI Performance reportBing's citation counts for Copilot.