Insights for SEO teams
Content strategy, keyword research, and agency growth, practical advice from the AltoRank team.
AI Content Traffic Drop: The Recovery Path the Data Supports
Your AI content lost its Google traffic and there is no manual action to appeal. What the 2026 evidence says happened, and the recovery sequence that follows.
Open Source AI SEO Tools, Compared by What They Publish
Five open-source AI SEO projects verified against the GitHub API: licence, maintenance, and the question listicles skip — which can actually publish to a CMS.
Answer Engine Optimization: A Multi-Surface Playbook
AEO covers every system returning direct answers: ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, AI Overviews. One playbook for all.
Internal Linking Tool for Agencies: Propose, Don't Insert
The best internal linking tools propose links rather than insert them. The criteria, and the pattern that scales.
Schema Markup for AI: The Inventory-Layer Playbook (2026)
A technical deep-dive on schema markup for AI retrieval: the JSON-LD types, properties, and patterns that actually move citation outcomes in 2026.
What Is GEO? Generative Engine Optimization Explained
Earning citations inside AI answers: what GEO is, how it differs from SEO, and how agencies should structure it.
How to Get Cited by AI: 14 Tactics That Work (2026)
14 tactics that earn AI citations in ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Gemini, organized by leverage for agencies running GEO across multiple clients.
How to Rank in ChatGPT: An Agency Playbook
The four-layer framework agencies use to rank client brands inside ChatGPT, and the loop that sustains it.
How to Rank in Perplexity: An Agency Playbook
Perplexity cites sources in every answer. The agency framework, adapted to its specific retrieval surface.
Agency Keyword Research Across 10+ Clients
Per-client keyword sets, opportunity scoring and a monthly refresh cadence that does not burn the strategy team.
LLM SEO: How It Differs From GEO and AEO (Agency Guide)
LLM SEO is the practitioner term for optimizing client content to be retrieved and cited by large language models. Here's how it relates to GEO, AEO, and SEO.
SEO Content Strategy for Agencies: An Operating Model
How agencies turn SEO content into a repeatable engine: voice, inputs, production and measurement.