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GEO strategy · Research

The AI agent reads your site before it recommends you. If it can’t, it answers anyway

37,927 AI agent journeys: sites agents can read were clearly recommended almost twice as often. The others were described by someone else.

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Gontran Guermachi·16 Oct 2026·12 min
Infographic: cutting at real sections raises the retrieval score from 0.362 to 0.403, and placebo headings bring nothing
GEO strategy · Measurement

Page structure helps AI find your content. A little, and not the way you think

Researchers gave an AI retrieval system placebo headings. They bought nothing. What helps is where the text is cut, and headings that tell the truth.

ChunkingarXivHeadings
Gontran Guermachi·13 Oct 2026·12 min
Infographic: the AI learns when to recommend, weighs purchase history 2.11 times more at the decisive turn, and replaces a rejected product with its nearest neighbour
GEO strategy · Measurement

The AI waits before it recommends you

A National Taiwan University study shows an AI recommender that waits until the need is clear, then replaces a rejected product with its nearest neighbour. What it changes for measuring AI visibility.

RecommendationarXivMulti-turn
Gontran Guermachi·10 Oct 2026·13 min
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GEO strategy · France

Google told French brands how to become the answer. Not how to know.

AI Overviews reached France on 22 July. Google's roadmap read with a measurement lens: the figures, the verification step, and a baseline before peak season.

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Gontran Guermachi·22 Sep 2026·23 min
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GEO strategy · Measurement

Your brand is cited by AI. Is it recommended?

Being cited by an AI engine is not being recommended. Why AI share of voice must separate citations, mentions and recommendations, with the formulas to measure each.

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Gontran Guermachi·22 Sep 2026·23 min
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GEO strategy · Measurement

Google Research just showed why AI queries are not keywords

Retrieve-for-Train names the flaw behind many AI visibility panels: paraphrastic collapse. What the study shows, what it doesn't say about AI Mode, and how to measure.

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Gontran Guermachi·21 Sep 2026·22 min
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Technical · Crawl policy

Blocking AI training can now block your search visibility

Since 15 September, Cloudflare separates Search, Training and Agent. Block and Disallow AI Training no longer do the same thing — and the third control is the one nobody is watching.

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Gontran Guermachi·16 Sep 2026·11 min
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GEO strategy · Measurement

How to compare your visibility to competitors in AI Mode

No Google tool allows it. Search Console shows your impressions only, AI Overviews and AI Mode combined. The observational protocol, and its five conditions.

AI ModeShare of voiceSearch Console
Gontran Guermachi·14 Sep 2026·10 min
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Technical · Crawler access

Your robots.txt says yes. Your firewall says no.

An AI crawler can get a 403 on a public page that allows it. And OpenAI's advertising crawler is Cloudflare-verified while its search crawler is not.

403 / 429WAFOAI-SearchBot
Gontran Guermachi·9 Sep 2026·12 min
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GEO strategy · Fundamentals

Do brands need both SEO and GEO in 2026?

SEO decides whether a system can index your pages. GEO decides whether an AI keeps them as evidence. Indexing, AI crawlers, corroboration, measurement: what each one solves.

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Gontran Guermachi·9 Sep 2026·11 min
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GEO strategy · Measurement

Same brand, different proof: the number everyone quotes didn't survive its own test

AI engines supposedly agree on brands and diverge on sources. Measured against chance the order inverts: 42× for a shared page, 17× for a shared brand.

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KaiZen AI Strategy·9 Sep 2026·11 min
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GEO strategy · Study

Cited is not used: what 21,143 AI citations reveal about GEO

ChatGPT cites 6.88 sources per prompt, Perplexity 16.35 — yet uses each one more than four times as deeply. And Q&A formatting does not improve absorption.

AbsorptionarXivFAQ format
Gontran Guermachi·6 Sep 2026·12 min
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GEO Strategy · Brand Discovery

How consumers discover brands in 2026

The search web is becoming a recommendation web: AI, Social Search, Dark Social, Retail Media and creators are reshaping brand discovery.

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Gontran Guermachi·22 August 2026·10 min
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GEO strategy · Benchmark

Which are the best GEO and AEO agencies in Bangkok?

Nine agencies scored on what they can prove, five audited on 25 criteria. Primal leads the market, KAIS leads on method. Full grid published.

BenchmarkBangkok25 criteria
Gontran Guermachi·17 August 2026·14 min
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GEO strategy

Google Marketing Live 2026: getting cited by AI when you sell high-ticket

Google shipped a whole infrastructure for paid and a single sentence for organic. Two economies are forming inside the AI answer — and one of them isn't for sale.

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Gontran Guermachi·31 July 2026·8 min
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GEO strategy

First on Google, invisible in ChatGPT

The correlation between Google's Top 10 and answer-engine citations fell from 76% to 38%. Three out of four citations now come from sources outside the Top 10.

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Gontran Guermachi·30 July 2026·5 min
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Law firms · Pillar

How law firms get cited by ChatGPT, Claude and Perplexity

82% of French firms are invisible on Perplexity; one firm owns the market at KVS 100. The Muda concept, the three KaiZen levers, and the niche strategy that beats a giant.

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Gontran Guermachi·19 May 2026·11 min
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Law firms · Analysis

GEO and lawyers: the algorithm at the heart of legal advice

A director looking for a lawyer now asks ChatGPT before Google. GEO decides which firms the AI cites — and it rewards nothing like the same players as SEO.

Law firmsGEOSEO
Gontran Guermachi·30 Jan 2026·8 min
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Law firms · Barometer

Bredin Prat owns ChatGPT. Every other Paris firm is in the second division.

Thirty legal queries, three AI engines, 1,870 citations. Bredin Prat crushes business law while the international giants vanish from the ranking.

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Gontran Guermachi·28 Jan 2026·7 min

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