Reference entries (13)
- reference AI Overview citation patterns (GEO/AEO)
- reference BrightLocal Local Consumer Review Survey 2026 (n=1,002 US adults via SurveyMonkey): average of 6 review sources used; 97% read reviews online; 45% use ChatGPT/AI for local recommendations (up from 6% in 2025)
- reference Dan Taylor (SE Land, Jan 13 2026, n=107,352): CWV is a gate for AI citation, not a growth lever
- reference AI crawlers (GPTBot, ClaudeBot, PerplexityBot) generally do not execute JavaScript — client-side React/Vue without SSR is invisible
- reference Query fan-out: Google AI Overviews issue multiple sub-queries; pages get cited across queries they never targeted
- reference AI citation overlap with Google top-10 has collapsed — from 76% (Jul 2025) to ~8-38% (2026)
- reference BrightEdge (Feb 2026): AI Overviews now appear on 48% of tracked queries, up from ~30% a year prior
- reference Google (May 2026): "Structured data isn't required for generative AI search"
- reference Google Search Central (May 15, 2026): "Optimizing for generative AI is still SEO"
- reference Seer Interactive (Oct 2025): 65% of AI bot hits target content under 1 year old; 89% under 3 years
- reference Ahrefs (April 2026): adding schema to 1,885 pages produced no AI-citation lift; AI Overviews showed -4.6%
- reference Princeton GEO paper (Aggarwal et al., KDD '24) — the foundational generative engine optimization study
- reference Research brief: Structured content as a competitive advantage (piece 2 of 15)
