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How to build video that AI search actually cites
SEOJul 21, 2026

How to build video that AI search actually cites

YouTube is the most-cited source in Google's AI Overviews, and short-form is where product discovery now begins. What it takes to make your videos the ones AI search pulls from.

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Google turned every search into an AI answer first
AI SearchJul 20, 2026

Google turned every search into an AI answer first

Google rolled Gemini out as the default answer on every query worldwide, and the blue links slid below the fold. Here is what actually changed, and how to keep earning traffic when the answer arrives before the click.

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Most of what AI cites about your brand lives on sites you do not control
AI SearchJul 15, 2026

Most of what AI cites about your brand lives on sites you do not control

Earned media drives 84% of AI citations. The six-tier playbook to earn them, from the entity graph through reviews, Reddit, analysts and video.

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The five graphs an AI assistant reads before it decides to cite you
SEOJul 15, 2026

The five graphs an AI assistant reads before it decides to cite you

Backlinks are one connection an AI model follows. Here are the other four graphs that decide whether you get named in the answer.

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What AI knows about your brand is decided first on your own domain
AI SearchJul 14, 2026

What AI knows about your brand is decided first on your own domain

Third-party mentions and social clips only corroborate a story your own site has to tell first. Here is how to build the first-party layer AI reads before it trusts anyone else.

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75% of What AI Mode Cites in Travel Is Guide Content
AI SearchJul 9, 2026

75% of What AI Mode Cites in Travel Is Guide Content

Google AI Mode cites about 26 sources to answer a single travel query, and three quarters of them are the guides, tips and itineraries most teams are cutting. Our 100-query study on what it pulls, who gets cited, and why the click drop isn't a content-quality drop.

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Abstract knowledge graph of glowing nodes converging into one bright central node, the idea behind Total Graph Authority.
AI SearchJul 7, 2026

Total Graph Authority, How Brands Get Cited by AI

AI answers change run to run, so being cited once proves little. Total Graph Authority lines up first-party, third-party, and social so you stay in the answer, with examples you can copy.

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Who Google AI Mode actually cites when Indonesians ask about banking
AI SearchJul 6, 2026

Who Google AI Mode actually cites when Indonesians ask about banking

We ran 72 Indonesian banking and finance prompts through Google AI Mode, 216 answers in all, and logged every source it cited. Banks dominate, comparison sites and Instagram punch above their weight, and regulators barely show up.

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AI stopped reading your pages and started reading your entity graph
AI SearchJul 6, 2026

AI stopped reading your pages and started reading your entity graph

AI is starting to retrieve your brand as a graph of connected entities, and a lot of well-written sites are illegible in that format. Here is what GraphRAG changes and how to fix your entity legibility.

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Brand mentions or backlinks, what actually gets you cited in 2026?
SEOJul 4, 2026

Brand mentions or backlinks, what actually gets you cited in 2026?

Links still move Google, but a plain unlinked mention of your brand may do more for you in AI search. Here is how the two signals split in 2026, and how to build both.

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