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Field notes on getting named.

Everything we know about making AI say your name, pulled straight from the PEO method.

Guide

Person Schema vs Organization Schema: When to Use Which

How to decide between schema.org Person and Organization markup, and how to nest a founder's Person entity inside a company's...

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Guide

The knowsAbout Property Explained: Declaring Expertise Machines Can Read

How schema.org's knowsAbout property works, how to choose entries, and how it helps AI systems associate your name with specific...

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Guide

sameAs Linking Strategy: Building a Cluster That Fuses One Identity

A build-order strategy for schema.org sameAs: which profiles to include, in what sequence, how to verify them, and how many is...

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Guide

FAQ Schema for Expert Pages: Turning Your Answers Into the Cited Snippet

How FAQPage schema works, why the question-and-answer shape matches how retrieval systems extract content, and how to write FAQ...

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Guide

How RAG Retrieval Works: Retrieval-Augmented Generation for a Personal Entity

A technical explanation of retrieval-augmented generation, how the retrieval and generation stages work, and what it means for how...

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Guide

Embeddings Explained for Your Name: How Your Bio Becomes Vectors

A technical explanation of how text embeddings work, why phrasing changes where your bio sits in vector space, and how that...

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Guide

How Perplexity Picks Sources: The Retrieve-Then-Cite Pipeline

How Perplexity's retrieve-then-cite pipeline works, what makes a page a winning citation source, and how to become one of the...

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Guide

How Google AI Mode Grounds Answers: The Mechanism Explained

How grounding works inside Google AI Mode, what it pulls from, and why entity clarity and traditional search fundamentals both...

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Guide

Grounding vs Hallucination: Why It Decides Whether AI States You Correctly

Why language models hallucinate, how grounding mitigates it without eliminating it, and what a personal entity can actually do to...

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Guide

GPTBot Explained: What It Is, and the Allow-or-Deny Tradeoff

What GPTBot is, how it differs from ChatGPT's live browsing crawler, and the practical tradeoffs of allowing or blocking it in...

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Guide

robots.txt Recipes for AI Crawlers: Copy-Paste Rules, Explained

Copy-paste robots.txt rules for GPTBot, ClaudeBot, Google-Extended, PerplexityBot and more, plus the syntax and mistakes that...

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Guide

Entity Disambiguation Explained: How Engines Tell You Apart From Others

How entity disambiguation works, which signals engines use to resolve a name to one specific person, and how to strengthen those...

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Guide

Creating a Wikidata Item, Step by Step: A Machine-Readable Home Base

A step-by-step guide to creating a Wikidata item for yourself, including the notability bar, the properties that matter, and how to...

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Guide

Building an AI Visibility Dashboard: What to Measure and How to Log It

How to build a recurring, manual AI visibility dashboard: what to track, a fixed prompt set, a log format, and how to turn entries...

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Guide

What Is Person Engine Optimization (PEO)? The 2026 Guide

The definition, the three signals, and how PEO differs from SEO and GEO.

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Playbook

How to Get Recommended by ChatGPT: A 6-Step Playbook

The full method to become the name AI names, step by step.

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Signals

The 3 Signals AI Uses to Recommend a Person

Knowledge, Age and Network, and why Network carries the most weight.

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Compare

SEO vs GEO vs PEO: The Real Difference in 2026

Where each layer wins, and why ranking fourth is now invisible.

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Tactic

Money Queries: How to Pick the AI Questions Worth Winning

Choose the buyer-phrased questions that become your scoreboard.

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Map

The Layer Map: How SEO, GEO, AEO and PEO Stack

The whole field on one map, and why PEO sits on top.

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Deep Dive

How to Build a Knowledge Base AI Will Actually Cite

Publish depth, not summaries, and format it so engines lift you.

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Deep Dive

The Network Signal: Why Third-Party References Win AI

The heaviest signal, and how to earn it honestly.

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Deep Dive

Structure Your Identity for Machines: Entity SEO for People

Collapse your fragmented online selves into one legible identity.

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Deep Dive

How to Track Your AI Visibility (and Re-Run It Monthly)

Measure movement from unmentioned to named, and close the loop.

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Deep Dive

llms.txt: The File AI Crawlers Ask For (And What It Actually Does)

What llms.txt actually does, who reads it, and the honest evidence. Includes a copy-paste llms.txt…

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Guide

Person Schema: The Complete JSON-LD Guide for Your Name

A complete Person schema JSON-LD guide for your name: every property that matters, a copy-paste example,…

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Deep Dive

The AI Crawler Directory: GPTBot, OAI-SearchBot, ClaudeBot and Your robots.txt

Every AI crawler that matters in 2026: GPTBot, OAI-SearchBot, ClaudeBot, PerplexityBot and more. What each…

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Compare

Training Data vs Retrieval: The Two Doors Into an AI Answer

How ChatGPT gets information: two doors, model training and live retrieval. What each door rewards, why…

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Deep Dive

How LLMs Store You: Parameters, Embeddings and Your Name

How do LLMs work with names? There is no database and no profile. Your name lives as tokens, embeddings…

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Deep Dive

sameAs: The Most Underrated Line in Your Markup

sameAs schema is one line of JSON-LD that fuses your scattered profiles into a single entity machines can…

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Deep Dive

Knowledge Graphs: How Machines Connect Facts About People

How a knowledge graph stores a person as a node with typed facts, how Google assembles one about you, and…

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Deep Dive

Name Collisions: PEO When You Share a Name With Someone Famous

Sharing a name with someone famous means engines default to them. This same name as someone famous SEO…

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Playbook

The 25-Prompt Audit: Test Your AI Visibility in One Hour

A free ai visibility audit you can run in one hour: 25 copy-paste prompts across five categories, a…

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Compare

AI Visibility Tools Compared: What Actually Measures Mentions

The real ai visibility tools of 2026 compared: Profound, Semrush AI Toolkit, Ahrefs Brand Radar, Otterly…

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Deep Dive

Chunk Theory: AI Reads Passages, Not Pages

AI engines retrieve passages, not pages. Passage optimization explained: how chunking works, why every…

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Deep Dive

Mention, Citation, Recommendation: Three Wins, Three Different Plays

AI citations vs mentions vs recommendations: what each one is, how engines produce each, which one…

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Deep Dive

Zero-Click Engineering: Winning When 69% of Searches End Without One

Zero-click searches hit 69% after AI Overviews launched. Zero-click engineering means winning the…

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Deep Dive

E-E-A-T as Data: What Experience Looks Like to a Machine

E-E-A-T in AI search is not a vibe, it is data. How engines read experience, expertise, authority and…

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Playbook

The Rotation Problem: Why AI Citations Churn Monthly and How to Stay

40 to 60% of AI answer citations rotate month over month. Why ai citation churn happens, which signals…

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Deep Dive

Digital PR Engineering: Manufacturing Third-Party Proof at Scale

Digital PR for AI search is an engineering problem, not a media game: a repeatable pipeline of third-party…

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Deep Dive

The Machine-Readable About Page: A Teardown

A section-by-section teardown of a machine-readable About page: the structure, the exact schema markup,…

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Deep Dive

Answer-Shaped Writing: Formatting Content AI Can Lift Verbatim

How to write for AI search: answer-shaped writing puts the answer first, keeps passages self-contained,…

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Deep Dive

Contradiction Debt: Fixing Conflicting Facts About You Across the Web

Conflicting titles, bios and dates quietly tax your AI visibility. How contradiction debt breaks online…

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Deep Dive

From Mention to Money: Tracking AI Referral Traffic to Your Name

The full GA4 setup for AI referral traffic analytics: a custom AI channel, the exact regex for chatgpt.com…

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