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		<title>Every OpenAI Publisher Partnership, and How Often ChatGPT Cites Them</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ryan Law]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Nov 2026 17:03:55 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Each deal works roughly the same way: the publisher licenses its content to OpenAI, and ChatGPT shows summaries of that content with attribution and a link back to the source. That makes these publishers some of the most visible sites<span class="ellipsis">&#8230;</span><div class="read-more">Read more &#8250;</div><!-- end of .read-more -->]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>The 25 Best AEO/GEO Experts to Follow in 2026</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ryan Law]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Nov 2026 15:19:41 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Research is how you answer these questions, and how you keep up with what’s changing in AI search. These are the 25 people publishing the most original research on AI search, and the ones worth following. I started with a<span class="ellipsis">&#8230;</span><div class="read-more">Read more &#8250;</div><!-- end of .read-more -->]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Which Types of Mentions Correlate the Strongest With AI Visibility? (260M AI Prompts Analyzed)</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Louise Linehan]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Nov 2026 11:52:37 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[But which kind of mention? In our previous research, we analyzed different brand factors alongside AI visibility—including web mentions, anchors, search volume, number of referring domains and so on. This time, we zeroed in on brand mention types. We compared<span class="ellipsis">&#8230;</span><div class="read-more">Read more &#8250;</div><!-- end of .read-more -->]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>10 Clearscope Alternatives (Compared on Price, API, and MCP Access)</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ryan Law]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Nov 2026 11:40:57 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I compared ten Clearscope alternatives on price per article, API and MCP access, keyword data, and how well they fit an AI content workflow.<div class="read-more">Read more &#8250;</div><!-- end of .read-more -->]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>What Is BLUF? How to Write Bottom Line Up Front (+ Free Rewriter Tool)</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Si Quan Ong]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Oct 2026 16:27:18 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[BLUF means bottom line up front: put your main point in the first sentence. Here's how to write it, with examples and a free BLUF rewriter.<div class="read-more">Read more &#8250;</div><!-- end of .read-more -->]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>How Stable Are AI Citations? 10 Things We Learned Tracking 37,500 Citations</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Mateusz Makosiewicz]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2026 13:25:17 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Key takeaways: Treat citation volatility as normal. It seems to be a built-in trait of AI answers, and it may change significantly with model updates. So, aim to appear more often over time, not to hold every citation without interruption.<span class="ellipsis">&#8230;</span><div class="read-more">Read more &#8250;</div><!-- end of .read-more -->]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Google AI Mode: All You Need to Know</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Si Quan Ong]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Oct 2026 10:41:46 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Then, at Google I/O in May 2026, Sundar Pichai called AI Mode “our biggest upgrade to Search ever” and said it had passed 1 billion monthly active users. It’s no longer just an experiment. AI Mode now has its own<span class="ellipsis">&#8230;</span><div class="read-more">Read more &#8250;</div><!-- end of .read-more -->]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>AI Discoverability, Page types, and more (September 2026)</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Kamila Olexa]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Oct 2026 08:34:28 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[We’ve got 5 updates this month, from a brand-new AI Discoverability category in Site Audit to Page types in Site Explorer, and more. Let’s dive in. AI Discoverability issues AI Discoverability is a new issue category in Site Audit. It<span class="ellipsis">&#8230;</span><div class="read-more">Read more &#8250;</div><!-- end of .read-more -->]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Affiliate Marketing: What It Is &#038; How to Start in 2026</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Si Quan Ong]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Oct 2026 17:06:30 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[<img width="260" height="166" src="https://ahrefs.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/fb_affiliate_marketing-260x166.png" class="attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail wp-post-image" alt="" style="float:left; margin:0 15px 15px 0;" decoding="async" />You recommend products you genuinely rate. When someone buys through your link, you get a commission. You don’t have to make the product, hold stock, handle shipping, or deal with refunds. In this guide, I’ll show you how to think<span class="ellipsis">&#8230;</span><div class="read-more">Read more &#8250;</div><!-- end of .read-more -->]]></description>
		
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		<title>Headless Content Marketing: A New (Old) Strategy for Search</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ryan Law]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Oct 2026 09:29:20 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Today, your content pages are grist for the AI mill, their contents scraped from the page, blended together with competing pages, and shown to the user—if you’re lucky—in a context and format controlled entirely by a third party. Forgotten is<span class="ellipsis">&#8230;</span><div class="read-more">Read more &#8250;</div><!-- end of .read-more -->]]></description>
		
		
		
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