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By Incubate Growth Team June 2026 6 min read

AEO Is the New SEO: How to Get Your Business Cited by ChatGPT and Google AI Overviews

AI answers are eating traditional search clicks, and most businesses are invisible in them. Here is a plain-English breakdown of Answer Engine Optimization, why it matters right now, and the exact steps we use to get client brands quoted inside AI results.

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Why Arguing SEO vs. PPC Doesn’t Make Sense Anymore

For close to two decades, marketers have circled the same question: SEO or PPC? Which channel deserves the budget? Which one wins? A recent piece from Search Engine Land makes ...
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Google Starts Rolling Out Connected Apps in AI Mode Search

Search is no longer just about handing people a list of links. As Search Engine Journal reported, Google has unveiled a new capability that lets AI Mode complete tasks on ...
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AI SEO: Why Specific, Insightful Content Gets Cited More Often

Most SEO advice these days focuses on volume, but a quieter trend has been building around depth instead. As Search Engine Journal reported, writers publishing highly specific, focused articles are ...
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Your Traffic Isn’t Disappearing. It’s Just Not Landing on Your Site Anymore

If your organic sessions have been sliding even though your rankings look fine, you're not imagining it. In the debut episode of Search Engine Journal's relaunched podcast, editor-in-chief Katie Morton ...
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Google’s AI Search Console Controls Are Now Rolling Out Beyond the UK

Search Engine Roundtable reported that Google is starting to extend its new Search Console "Search Generative AI" controls to sites outside the United Kingdom — and if you've been tracking ...
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Used or Cited: The Two Ways Your Brand Shows Up in AI Search

If you have only been tracking whether AI tools like ChatGPT or Google's AI Overviews mention your brand by name, you are missing half the picture. There are actually two ...
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Google Search Console Now Tracks How Your Instagram, TikTok, X, and YouTube Content Performs in Search

If you have been treating your social content and your SEO strategy as two separate lanes, Google just gave you a good reason to merge them. Google Search Console has ...
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ChatGPT Now Owns 92% of AI Referral Traffic: Here’s What That Means for Your Site

If you've been hedging your AI search strategy across ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, and Copilot, new data suggests it's time to stop hedging. A fresh AI traffic study from Previsible, tracking ...
Search Agents Are Here: How Google's AI Mode Is Reshaping Discovery in 2026

Search Agents Are Here: How Google’s AI Mode Is Reshaping Discovery in 2026

For years, "optimizing for search" meant optimizing for a results page full of blue links. That assumption is breaking down fast. Google's latest updates to Search show a company betting ...
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Google’s July 2026 Shake-Up: What Founders Need to Know About Search Console, Core Updates, and Spam Enforcement

If you've checked your Google Search Console dashboard in the last few weeks and felt like something shifted, you're not imagining it. July 2026 has brought a cluster of changes ...

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