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		<title>6 Ways to Automate AEO With Letaido</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Si Quan Ong]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Jul 2026 15:23:28 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[&#160; If you’re one of the named brands, you win. If you’re not, you never knew the conversation happened. Optimizing for that is called AEO (or if you prefer, GEO.) This is now part of SEO and/or the marketing team’s<span class="ellipsis">&#8230;</span><div class="read-more">Read more &#8250;</div><!-- end of .read-more -->]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) Explained: How AI Decides Which Pages to Search &#038; Cite</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Louise Linehan]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Jul 2026 08:56:23 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[You need to understand RAG because it’s one of the ways ChatGPT, AI Mode and other AI search engines choose which pages get included in its answer. This guide explains how RAG works (in plain English), what makes content more<span class="ellipsis">&#8230;</span><div class="read-more">Read more &#8250;</div><!-- end of .read-more -->]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Self-Promotional Content Works—Until It Backfires (AI SEO Experiment)</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Mateusz Makosiewicz]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Jul 2026 10:00:22 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Two recent studies looked at how well this works. Glen Allsopp analyzed 750 ChatGPT prompts and found that “best [category]” listicles were the most frequently cited source type in AI-generated answers. In other words, AI systems clearly use this content<span class="ellipsis">&#8230;</span><div class="read-more">Read more &#8250;</div><!-- end of .read-more -->]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>How to Use Reddit for SEO (The Right Way)</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Despina Gavoyannis]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2026 15:10:27 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Reddit ranks #2 in the US with 727.3 million estimated SEO traffic per month, above YouTube and Amazon. It’s also the second-most-cited domain across AI platforms with estimated traffic of 1.2 billion visitors a month, behind only YouTube and ahead<span class="ellipsis">&#8230;</span><div class="read-more">Read more &#8250;</div><!-- end of .read-more -->]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>10 SEO Trends I’ve Seen Firsthand in 2026 (With Data)</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ryan Law]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Jun 2026 12:00:14 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[As clicks from Google dry up, attention is fragmenting. People now research and buy across more places than ever: social media, YouTube, news aggregators, individual websites, and marketplaces. The single front door of Google search has turned into a dozen<span class="ellipsis">&#8230;</span><div class="read-more">Read more &#8250;</div><!-- end of .read-more -->]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>How I Use My AI Marketing Assistant After 200+ Hours</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Mateusz Makosiewicz]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Jun 2026 13:28:54 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Here’s me letting my AI assistant code something for me, while I contemplate the AI doomsday scenarios. But debating the impact of AI on our jobs only gets you so far. A better use of your time is figuring out<span class="ellipsis">&#8230;</span><div class="read-more">Read more &#8250;</div><!-- end of .read-more -->]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Agentic Marketing: What’s the Big Deal and How to Get Started</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Mateusz Makosiewicz]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Jun 2026 13:16:49 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[You give it a goal like “plan the launch campaign for our new feature,” and it runs the whole job. It pulls competitor positioning, drafts the landing copy, writes the announcement emails, builds a sales-enablement one-pager, files the assets in<span class="ellipsis">&#8230;</span><div class="read-more">Read more &#8250;</div><!-- end of .read-more -->]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>We Analyzed 137K Sites: 97% of llms.txt Files Never Get Read</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Louise Linehan]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Jun 2026 10:27:40 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Using Ahrefs Web Analytics and Bot Analytics, we analyzed the server logs and live traffic of 137K domains, plus the user agents hitting all of them. Here’s what we found. In late May 2026, Google took both sides of the<span class="ellipsis">&#8230;</span><div class="read-more">Read more &#8250;</div><!-- end of .read-more -->]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>How to Level-up From SEO Tactician to Search Visibility Leader</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Despina Gavoyannis]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Jun 2026 09:00:25 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[AI disrupting search has handed SEOs the seat at the table they’ve spent years trying to earn, and for the first time, the C-suite is genuinely paying attention. The question is whether you’re ready to lead when their attention is<span class="ellipsis">&#8230;</span><div class="read-more">Read more &#8250;</div><!-- end of .read-more -->]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>The 50 Most-Cited Websites in Grok (June 2026)</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ryan Law]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Jun 2026 16:11:01 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[According to SpaceX’s May 2026 S-1 filing, 117 million people use Grok’s features every month, out of X’s 550 million monthly active users. That makes it one of the most-used AI assistants on the planet, and a growing influence on<span class="ellipsis">&#8230;</span><div class="read-more">Read more &#8250;</div><!-- end of .read-more -->]]></description>
		
		
		
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