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      <description>Rankscale publishes five credit-based tiers from $17 to $780. What a credit buys per engine, why Claude costs 8x ChatGPT, and the arithmetic for ten prompts.</description>
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      <description>Peec AI publishes $95, $245 and $495 monthly tiers that each track 3 models. Which assistants are Enterprise only, what a prompt costs, and how to compare.</description>
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      <description>Otterly.AI publishes $29, $189 and $489 monthly tiers metered in search prompts. What 15 prompts buys, which engines cost extra, and how to pick an alternative.</description>
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      <description>The two routes into ChatGPT shopping, the nine required product feed fields from OpenAI’s spec, and what OpenAI says selects a product. Read 22 September 2026.</description>
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      <description>What OpenAI documents about ChatGPT SEO: the three eligibility gates, query rewriting, the noindex catch, ARIA for the Atlas agent and the utm_source referral tag.</description>
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      <description>A ten-minute method to find out whether ChatGPT recommends your business, who it names instead, and which sources the answer used, with the 2026 data.</description>
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      <description>Seven AI SEO platforms compared on published price, assistants covered and whether they fix anything. Prices read from each vendor’s page, 12 September 2026.</description>
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      <description>AI SEO explained without the hype: what generative engine optimization (GEO) is, what the KDD 2024 paper measured, what Google says AI Overviews need, and AI SEO versus normal SEO.</description>
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      <description>A practical method for checking what ChatGPT and other AI assistants tell customers about your business: which questions to ask, why web search matters, and what to record so you can measure your AI visibility.</description>
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      <description>Google rolled the Search generative AI control out to all sites on 31 August 2026. What it controls, where to find it, how inheritance works, and what excluding actually costs.</description>
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      <description>GPTBot, ClaudeBot and PerplexityBot mostly fetch raw HTML, not rendered pages. How to test what each one sees on your site, and what to do if the answer is nothing.</description>
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      <description>The exact Search Console procedure to find pages competing for the same query, with real thresholds, plus how to decide between merging, differentiating and doing nothing.</description>
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