Everything we know about AI search visibility.
Practical, step-by-step guides on getting your business cited by ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, Google AI Overviews, and Gemini. No theory without application. Every guide ends with something you can do today.
The index.
20 guides on file
What is Generative Engine Optimisation (GEO)?
The practice of optimising content so AI platforms like ChatGPT, Gemini, and Perplexity cite your brand. What GEO is, how it works, and how to get started.
Read the guide →No. 12 / llms.txtTechnicalWhat is llms.txt?
A proposed standard that tells AI search engines what your website is about. How to create one, the difference between llms.txt and robots.txt, and what it can do while engine support is still emerging.
Read the guide →No. 10 / SEO vs AEOStrategySEO vs AEO: what is the difference?
The complete comparison of SEO vs AEO (Answer Engine Optimisation). When to use each, whether SEO is dead in 2026, and how AEO fits into a modern search strategy.
Read the guide →No. 13 / ChatGPT CitationsChatGPTHow to get cited by ChatGPT
Step-by-step guide covering schema markup, entity authority, content structure, and the signals AI models use to select sources for ChatGPT responses.
Read the guide →No. 18 / ChatGPT VisibilityChatGPTWhy is my business not showing in ChatGPT?
The most common reasons your business is invisible to ChatGPT, how to diagnose each gap, and the priority sequence for fixing them.
Read the guide →No. 14 / PerplexityPerplexityHow to optimise for Perplexity AI
How to get your brand cited in Perplexity answers. Covers ranking factors, citation techniques, content formatting, and monitoring strategies.
Read the guide →No. 15 / Claude AIClaudeHow to optimise for Claude AI
How Claude evaluates sources differently from other AI models, and how to structure your content for citation. Covers ClaudeBot, llms.txt, entity authority, and structured data.
Read the guide →No. 16 / AI OverviewsGoogleHow to appear in Google AI Overviews
How to get your content featured in Google AI Overviews. Content structure, schema markup, eligibility criteria, and optimisation strategies.
Read the guide →No. 17 / GeminiGoogleHow to appear in Google Gemini
How to appear in Google Gemini AI responses. Covers E-E-A-T signals, structured data, Google Business Profile optimisation, and citation monitoring.
Read the guide →No. 19 / Tools ComparisonToolsAI SEO tools comparison 2026
How the major AI SEO tools compare and where each one stops. Most monitor your visibility and recommend changes; the real difference is who ships the fixes.
Read the guide →No. 31 / Choosing an agencyStrategyHow to choose a marketing agency
The buyer's checklist: five questions that are hard to fake, the red flags worth walking away from, what a fair agreement looks like, and how to compare quotes that are not comparable. The last section turns the checklist back on us.
Read the guide →No. 32 / What agencies costStrategyHow much does a marketing agency cost in Australia?
Why no honest national average exists, the four ways agencies charge and how each one fails, what actually moves the number, and a method for reading any quote you are handed.
Read the guide →No. 33 / AI search statisticsStrategyAI search statistics for Australia
Verified Australian AI adoption and AI search figures from Roy Morgan, the ABS and Google, each with its sample size, date and a link to the original. Includes the widely-quoted numbers we checked and rejected, and why.
Read the guide →No. 34 / Growth marketing agenciesStrategyGrowth marketing agencies in Australia
Growth marketing is a label, not a discipline. The five kinds of agency using it, what each is actually good at, how their economics differ, and how to tell which one you are talking to. Ends by placing us in that map, including the work we do not do.
Read the guide →No. 35 / Sydney agency scoringStrategyBest AI SEO agencies in Sydney
Five Sydney agencies scored out of 100 on four published criteria, using only evidence anyone can open. Includes the inclusion rule, the disclosure that we publish this and appear on it, and the maths to check.
Read the guide →No. 36 / AEO vs GEOStrategyAEO vs GEO: the difference that matters
The two overlap more than most agencies admit, and we say so. What genuinely differs is the failure mode: AEO fails when you are absent from the answer, GEO fails when you are present but described wrongly.
Read the guide →No. 37 / GEO vs SEOStrategyGEO vs SEO: retrieval and generation
SEO optimises to be retrieved and clicked. GEO optimises to be represented inside a generated answer, often with no click. What changed, what did not, and why rank tracking stops measuring it.
Read the guide →No. 30 / Google Ads vs AI SEOStrategyGoogle Ads vs AI SEO: an honest comparison
What AI answers changed about both channels, what each costs, and which one fits your situation right now. We do not sell advertising, so this is a straight comparison.
Read the guide →No. 29 / Lead generationStrategyLead generation for service businesses
Leads that keep coming after the ad budget stops: get found in AI answers and Google, then capture the enquiry around the clock.
Read the guide →No. 38 / AI informationReferenceAI information: the checkable facts about Brain Buddy AI
What we do and do not do, how pricing works, how work is verified, and named client results with their sources. Written to be quoted.
Read the guide →Where to start, depending on what you need.
The index above holds more than most readers will ever need. Pick the situation closest to yours and begin with the guides listed for it. Each guide stands on its own, so the order inside a group matters less than choosing the right group:
- New to AI search. Read What is GEO first, then SEO vs AEO. AEO vs GEO and GEO vs SEO go further, into where the terms overlap and where the work genuinely differs.
- A competitor gets named and you do not. Start with the guide to why a business goes missing from ChatGPT, which works through the usual causes and the order to fix them in. Then open the guide for whichever engine your customers use most: ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude, Google AI Overviews or Gemini.
- You look after the website. What is llms.txt covers a small file you can add yourself, and is frank that support for it varies from one AI platform to another. All of the engine guides cover structured data, and most also deal with letting that engine's crawler in.
- You are choosing who to hire. How to choose a marketing agency and the guide to what agencies cost in Australia are written for that decision. Growth marketing agencies in Australia untangles an overused label, Best AI SEO agencies in Sydney shows a scoring method you can check for yourself, and the AI SEO tools comparison covers doing the work with software instead.
- You are deciding where the budget goes. Google Ads vs AI SEO compares the two channels head on, and Lead generation for service businesses looks at enquiries that keep arriving after the ad spend stops.
- You need numbers for a business case. AI search statistics for Australia gives each figure with its source and date, and lists the popular figures that did not survive checking.
- You are checking facts about us. AI information sets out what we do and do not do, in a form meant to be quoted accurately.
Two habits make the guides quicker to use. The engine guides put the action to take in their opening paragraph, and their section headings are the questions people actually ask, so you can skim straight to yours. Every guide also carries a set of frequently asked questions, often the fastest route to a narrow answer.
Read them with our position in mind. We sell AI search work, and the guides say so where it matters: the Sydney agency scoring discloses that we publish it and appear on it, and the agency selection guide ends by applying its own checklist to us. Weigh those parts as you would any company writing about its own field.
Engines also change how they work. Where a guide describes how one of them behaves, treat it as a description of that engine when the guide was written, and put the question to the engine yourself before acting on a detail that may have moved since.
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