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		<title>Vibe Coding for Marketers: A Beginner’s Guide</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Kamila Olexa]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Jul 2026 08:06:18 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Canva made this painfully clear: they gave 5,000 employees a full week to explore AI, and most couldn’t figure out how to start. No surprise there, most vibe-coding tools expect you to manage files, wrangle a terminal, and deploy to<span class="ellipsis">&#8230;</span><div class="read-more">Read more &#8250;</div><!-- end of .read-more -->]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Google Doesn’t Punish AI Content; It Punishes Bad Content (331k Pages Studied)</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ryan Law]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Jul 2026 08:00:13 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[On the one hand, Google says they don’t care whether AI is used for content creation, as long as the content isn’t designed “with the primary purpose of manipulating ranking in search results.” On the other hand, people like Lily<span class="ellipsis">&#8230;</span><div class="read-more">Read more &#8250;</div><!-- end of .read-more -->]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>5 AI Search Trends I’m Seeing in 2026, Backed by Ahrefs Data</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[Every week brings a new acronym, a new era, a new thing you are supposedly already too late for. Some of it changes how we work, but a lot of it is—let’s be honest—noise. Well, fear not. I’ve curated some<span class="ellipsis">&#8230;</span><div class="read-more">Read more &#8250;</div><!-- end of .read-more -->]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Free LLMs.txt Generator</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ryan Law]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Jul 2026 09:52:42 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Our free llms.txt generator is based on detailed analysis of 137,000 domains. Share this free tool with your boss, your colleagues, your clients, your GEO agency, or anyone who recommends you use an llms.txt file.]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>AI Search Strategy: 4 Pillars to Show Up More (and Right) in AI Answers</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Mateusz Makosiewicz]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Jul 2026 07:55:42 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Before someone ever lands on your website, an AI assistant may have already explained what your product does, compared it with competitors, and helped them decide whether you’re worth considering. By the time someone clicks through to your site after<span class="ellipsis">&#8230;</span><div class="read-more">Read more &#8250;</div><!-- end of .read-more -->]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Ryan Law]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Jul 2026 11:30:20 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[That’s the free-tools SEO strategy: instead of writing another guide, you build a small, genuinely useful tool, put it on a page, and let it rank for a query that has huge demand and almost no good competition. Done right,<span class="ellipsis">&#8230;</span><div class="read-more">Read more &#8250;</div><!-- end of .read-more -->]]></description>
		
		
		
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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>10 Creative Ways to Write with AI (Without Losing Your Soul)</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Mateusz Makosiewicz]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Jul 2026 10:43:26 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[So, after years of hearing the same message, people started associating AI-generated content with low-effort, mass-produced slop. AI-assisted content earned a bad reputation before it had a chance to mature. This article is my attempt to reset the conversation. I’ll<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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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Mateusz Makosiewicz]]></dc:creator>
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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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