Jacob Perks

Founder & Editor

Builder and SEO practitioner. Runs programmatic SEO programs and ships AI-assisted content systems; writes about GEO, AEO, and how discovery works when AI answers the query.

§ 37 articles
AEO

How to Rank in Google AI Overviews

How to rank in AI Overviews: you earn a citation, not a link. The two technical gates, the ranking signals that still decide it, and what Google says to skip.

Claude Skills

How to Use Claude Skills: A Step-by-Step Tutorial

How to use Claude Skills on claude.ai, in Claude Code, and via the API: turn them on, invoke pre-built ones, install your own, and manage them.

Claude Skills

Claude Skills vs Agents vs MCP: What's the Difference?

Claude Skills vs agents vs MCP, explained plainly: Skills are know-how, MCP is access to tools and data, agents are the loop that uses both. When to use each.

Claude Skills

Claude Skills for Excel and PowerPoint: How to Use Them

How to use Claude Skills in Excel and PowerPoint: enable them in the Customize hub, run them in the add-in with a slash command, and when to build your own.

AEO

Best AEO Tools in 2026 (Compared)

The best AEO tools compared for 2026: HubSpot, Semrush, Otterly, Peec, Conductor, and Profound. Pricing, engines tracked, and which one fits your team.

LLM SEO

Cloudflare Blocks AI Crawlers by Default: What It Means for Your AI Citations

Cloudflare blocks AI training and agent crawlers by default on Sept 15, 2026. Here's who it hits, why it can drop you from Google, and what to actually allow.

GEO

Best GEO Tools Compared (2026)

The best generative engine optimization tools compared: Profound, Peec, Otterly, AthenaHQ, and geoSurge. Pricing, what each tracks, and who each fits.

GEO

Brand Mentions vs Backlinks: What Wins AI Visibility

Brand mentions vs backlinks for AI visibility: Ahrefs studied 75,000 brands and found mentions correlate ~3x stronger than links. What the data means and what to do.

AEO

Google Cites Itself in AI Mode: What Local & Ecommerce Brands Do Now

Google AI Mode citations now favor Google's own Business Profiles and Product Panels. What the 8.4x self-citation surge means for local brands.

LLM SEO

LLM Optimization: The Complete Guide

LLM optimization is how you get cited by ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Google AI. The 2026 guide to what drives AI citations, the levers that work, and the myths.

Claude Skills

Best Claude Skills for Marketing & SEO

There's no official 'marketing skills' Claude pack. Here's what actually works for marketers and SEOs: the official skills that fit, plus building your own.

Claude Skills

Best Claude Skills in 2026: The Ones Worth Installing

The best Claude Skills in 2026, ranked by job. All 17 official Anthropic skills, what each does per its docs, how to install them, where community skills fit.

Claude Skills

How to Record a Claude Skill by Screen Recording (No-Code)

Record a Claude Skill by screen-recording a task once and narrating it. How the no-code feature works, the steps, plans, limits, and best uses in 2026.

LLM SEO

ChatGPT Ads: What the Sponsored Layer Means for AEO

ChatGPT ads now sit below its answers for Free and Go users. Here's how the paid layer works, whether it touches organic citations, and what AEO teams do now.

LLM SEO

How ChatGPT Picks Its Sources: The 4 Retrieval Pipelines

How ChatGPT picks sources, decoded from its network traffic: the four retrieval pipelines (Labrador, Bright, Oxylabs, SERP) and why your citation keeps moving.

LLM SEO

What Is llms.txt? (And Should You Ship One in 2026)

What is llms.txt, and does it help AI visibility? Google ignores it and studies show no citation lift, but here's the one place shipping one still pays off.

LLM SEO

Which AI Engines Actually Send Traffic? ChatGPT vs Claude vs Perplexity

ChatGPT sends 92.4% of AI referral traffic across 6.77M sessions. See how Claude, Gemini, and Perplexity compare, and why usage share isn't traffic.

AEO

AEO vs SEO vs GEO: What Each One Actually Means

AEO vs SEO vs GEO explained: SEO ranks a clickable link, while AEO and GEO get you cited inside AI answers. What each term means and which to actually do.

GEO

Google's GEO Guidance: The AI-Search Myths It Just Debunked

Google's GEO guidance debunks five AI-search myths: llms.txt, content chunking, AI-only schema, and more. What Google's 2026 docs actually tell you to do.

GEO

GEO vs SEO: What Actually Changes

GEO vs SEO in 2026: the same authority signals, a different target. What actually changes when AI answers the query, and what Google says stays the same.

Claude Skills

What Are Claude Skills? The Complete Guide

Claude Skills are folders of instructions and scripts that teach Claude to do specialized tasks. What they are, how they work, and how to use them in 2026.

Claude Skills

Cursor vs Claude Code: Honest 2026 Comparison

Hands-on comparison of Cursor and Claude Code. Pricing, speed, code quality, agent mode, refactor accuracy. Which one to pick for your workflow.

LLM SEO

LLM SEO: How to Get Cited by ChatGPT (2026 Guide)

Get cited by ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Claude. The 2026 guide to LLM SEO: what works, what's snake oil, how to measure citations.

AEO

What is Answer Engine Optimization (AEO)?

Answer Engine Optimization (AEO) explained: what it is, how it differs from SEO, and how to optimize for AI Overviews and ChatGPT answers.

LLM SEO

Best AI SEO Tools (2026)

Best AI SEO tools in 2026: keyword research, content briefs, on-page optimization, AI-search visibility. What's worth paying for vs free.

Claude Skills

Best AI Coding Tools (2026)

Honest reviews of the best AI coding tools in 2026: Cursor, Claude Code, Lovable, v0, Bolt, Windsurf, GitHub Copilot. What works, what doesn't.

pSEO

Programmatic SEO: The Complete Guide

Complete programmatic SEO guide: keyword research, page templates, content depth, internal linking, and how to ship 100+ pages without burning out.

SEO

App Marketing: A Founder's Playbook

How to market an app from zero: SEO, ASO, paid, distribution, and the channels that compound for indie app founders.

pSEO

What is Programmatic SEO?

Programmatic SEO explained for founders: what it is, when it works, real examples, and how to do it without writing 300 articles by hand.

SEO

SaaS SEO Strategy: The Complete Playbook

Build a SaaS SEO strategy from zero: keyword research, content clusters, on-page tactics, and the programmatic SEO move that compounds.

Claude Skills

Vibe Coding Tutorial: Ship Your First App

Step-by-step tutorial for vibe coding: pick the right tool, scaffold the app, ship to production. From idea to deployed in one weekend.

SEO

SEO for SaaS: A Practical Guide

Practical SEO for SaaS founders: keyword research, on-page tactics, link building, and the AI-search angle nobody else covers yet.

Claude Skills

How to Build a SaaS with AI in 2026

Build a SaaS with AI tools, idea to shipped in 30 days. Stack choices, prompting workflow, common pitfalls, and the security pass nobody talks about.

Glossary

What is a Backlink? (And How to Get Them in 2026)

A backlink is a link from another site to yours. Here's why they matter for SEO, what makes a good one, and how to build them in 2026.

SEO

SEO for Small Business: 2026 Edition

SEO for small businesses without a marketing team: local SEO, content basics, AI search, and the cheapest path to ranking.

Glossary

What is SEO? A Founder's Definition (2026)

SEO explained for founders: what it is, why it matters, what works in 2026, and the easiest path to ranking when you don't have a marketing team.

SEO

SaaS Marketing: A Founder's Guide (2026)

How to market a SaaS without a marketing team: SEO, content, distribution, AI search, and the channels that work for indie and bootstrapped founders.