I Ran 3 of the Biggest SEO Blogs Through a GEO Analyzer. Here's What AI Actually Cares About.

I Ran 3 of the Biggest SEO Blogs Through a GEO Analyzer. Here's What AI Actually Cares About. Series: AI Survival Challenge — Day 13 Everyone's optimizing for Google. But when someone asks ChatGPT "what is SEO?", Google's algorithm doesn't decide what gets cited. Something else does. It's called GEO — Generative Engine Optimization . And most content, even from the best SEO blogs in the world, has a significant blind spot. I know because I built a tool that checks it. And I ran it on Backlinko, Ahrefs, and Moz to see how the best in the industry score. What is GEO? GEO (Generative Engine Optimization) is about optimizing content to be cited by AI systems — ChatGPT, Perplexity, Google AI Overviews — rather than ranked by traditional search. The research behind it comes from a Princeton/Georgia Tech/IIT Delhi paper published at KDD 2024. They analyzed 10,000+ queries across 9 search engines and identified 7 content attributes that significantly increase citation rates by generative AI. T