
How to Evaluate AEO Research Before Changing Your SEO
AI search studies pile up fast, and many come from vendors. Here is a 7-point checklist, a worked audit of the schema claim, and a small test plan to run before you change anything.
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DebugBear told customers to pull a monitoring script after its DNS was hijacked. Here is how to inventory every third-party script on your site, rank the risk, and prove a removal worked.

Asking staff how much they use AI rewards adoption, not checking. Use these review questions, a five-criterion draft scorecard and a worked 10-draft audit to measure verification and quality.

A robots.txt block can leave a share URL indexed and hide your noindex tag from Googlebot. Audit share-link patterns, pick the right control, and verify with curl and Search Console.

About 1 in 5 consumer ChatGPT messages seeks information, but that bucket mixes facts, product questions and recipes. Here is how to turn it into a page-level audit.

A $2,000 day on a $1,000 budget can be within Google's rules. So can paying for irrelevant clicks. Here is how to test your own account against your own targets, step by step.

Several niche ideas, no way to pick? Use a four-criteria scorecard, a worked example and a verification checklist to choose a first affiliate niche, and test whether it can grow beyond Google.

Google's docs no longer explain how to get Indexing API approval. Here is a five-step audit to test your quota, build a sitemap and JobPosting fallback, and verify discovery.

The New York Times gives free articles prime homepage space and tells readers they're free. Here is how to audit your own free content and test whether a label changes clicks.

Future plc blamed a 24% affiliate revenue drop on lower search audiences. Here is a one-hour audit to see how much of your own income rides on non-branded Google clicks.

PHP patch coming? The usual PHP 503 snippet fails when PHP is offline. Here is a worked audit with CDN and server configs, a robots.txt carve-out, and curl checks.

You have four channel ideas and one budget. Use a weighted scoring model to rank them, pick one to test, and write a one-page proposal leadership can approve or reject on evidence.