
Image Alt Text for AI Search: Why It Matters More Than You Think
Alt text used to be an accessibility checkbox. In 2026 it is a primary signal for AI Mode, multimodal models,…

Alt text used to be an accessibility checkbox. In 2026 it is a primary signal for AI Mode, multimodal models,…

Perplexity Pro and Free cite different sources for the same query. Here is what Perplexity documents, what we observe running…

Lost AI citations overnight? Here is the diagnostic framework I run with clients to identify the root cause, engine, site,…

AI crawlers handle redirects differently than classic search bots. Here is how to use 301, 302, and canonical tags so…

JSON-LD wins for AI search in almost every scenario. Here is the decision framework, the edge cases where Microdata still…

Thin and outdated content dilutes your topical authority and starves AI engines of clean signals. Here is the content pruning…

The top 3 most-cited domains across 42,971 AI citations are YouTube (1,525), Reddit (1,444), and Wikipedia (975). Here is what…

AI Mode readability is bimodal, not normal. In our May 2026 study of 153,425 citations, 22.9% of cited sentences score…

Gemini now encodes the exact sentence it cites inside every citation URL, while Google AI Mode dropped text fragments to…

Across our May 2026 study of 153,425 citations, the mean cited sentence sits 37% down the page and 74.9% land…