How to know if your GEO is working

Written by Andrew Holland GEO performance comes down to proof. Share of search, buyer intent, and prompt visibility show whether your strategy is creating real demand. Let’s get one thing straight before the industry turns “GEO” into yet another three-letter source of confusion. Generative engine optimization isn’t SEO with a new hat and a LinkedIn carousel. It’s a fundamentally different game. If you’re still debating whether to swap the “S” for a “G,” you’ve already missed the point. At its core, GEO is brand marketing expressed through generative interfaces. Treat it like a technical tweak, and you’ll get technical-tweak results: plenty of noise,…

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Cloudflare’s Pay Per Crawl: A turning point for SEO and GEO

Written by Pavel Israelsky Pay Per Crawl signals a new web business model – charging AI bots for access and giving content creators a new path to profit. The content economy is in trouble. AI crawlers read websites, summarize information, and offer answers without sending users to the original source. The result? A dramatic drop in traffic from AI models, declining ad revenue, and a growing threat to the business model that has powered the web for decades. Now, Cloudflare is stepping in with a new approach. Just two weeks ago, CEO Matthew Prince said in an interview with Axios: “AI is going…

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