The RankVyze Journal
Launch well. Build lasting discovery.
Practical guides to product launches, AI search and measurement. Clear workflows, worked examples and tools you can use today.
Is AI search sending you customers? How to check in GA4
A practical reporting workflow for AI referrals, missing attribution, landing pages, and the actions visitors take after they arrive.
Read the guideGoogle shows another company when I search my brand name. What now?
A diagnostic guide for new brands that share a name, spelling, or search results with an unrelated company.
ReadYour SaaS pricing page should answer more than 'How much?'
A pricing-page audit with a worked billing example, a copy template, and checks for the details that comparison answers often get wrong.
ReadA product launch SEO checklist: before, during and after launch
A launch-day workflow with clear checks, evidence to collect and a practical first-week review.
ReadHow to write a product directory listing people can actually evaluate
Turn a vague product pitch into a useful listing buyers can compare and makers can maintain.
ReadRobots.txt allows AI crawlers. Why is Cloudflare still blocking them?
Use security events and verified bot identities to separate a robots permission from actual crawler access.
ReadA 20-minute Search Console routine for the first weeks after launch
A calm weekly routine for a newly launched site: inspect indexing, query data, pages, and changes without chasing daily noise.
ReadAI cites my website but never mentions my brand. What should I fix?
A practical way to move from anonymous source links toward accurate brand attribution without stuffing your name into every sentence.
ReadIndexNow for product launches: what it sends, what it does not, and when to use it
A practical IndexNow workflow for fresh launch URLs, with the Google limitation made explicit.
ReadChatGPT has wrong information about my business. How do I correct it?
Trace the claim to its source, correct the public fact pattern, and retest without assuming instant changes.
ReadAre product directory links useful for SEO? A practical evaluation guide
A decision worksheet for choosing listings and measuring what they actually deliver.
ReadSoftwareApplication schema for SaaS pages: a truthful implementation checklist
Add software schema only where page facts support it, and verify the markup matches what visitors see.
ReadI rank on Google, so why don't AI answers cite my page?
A decision tree for the gap between an organic ranking and a citation in an AI-generated answer.
ReadHow to measure AI mentions and citations without inventing a visibility score
A reproducible measurement worksheet with formulas, worked examples and rules for comparing samples.
ReadCanonical URLs for launch campaigns, UTMs, and duplicate product pages
Track each launch campaign without turning every tracking parameter into a competing search page.
ReadHow to track product launch traffic with UTMs and activation events
A practical campaign naming table, link-testing routine and launch measurement worksheet.
ReadHow to rank on ChatGPT
ChatGPT has no ranking algorithm in the sense SEO means it. Understanding what it does instead is most of the work — and it explains why sites that dominate Google can be invisible in an AI answer.
ReadHow to write a SaaS comparison page without inventing a winner
Build a comparison page buyers can trust: named criteria, sources, tradeoffs, and a clear update process.
ReadBuild product pages that answer real buyer questions in search and AI
An evidence-first product page template that helps people understand fit, capabilities and limitations.
ReadWrite SaaS title tags and meta descriptions that make the page clear
Concrete before-and-after examples, a drafting workflow and a deployment checklist for search copy.
ReadAEO tools vs AEO services: which one do you actually need?
One measures, the other changes the answer. They are sold in the same aisle and solve different problems — here is how to tell which you need.
ReadWhat answer engine optimization actually costs
Almost nobody in this category publishes a price, which makes it impossible to budget for. Here are the actual ranges, what sits inside each, and what drives the number.
ReadInternal linking for AI search: the pages your own site votes for
Count inbound links naively and your privacy policy wins. Here is the split that makes the number mean something.
ReadWhy your business doesn't show up in ChatGPT
Invisibility in AI answers almost always has a specific, findable cause. Here's how to work out which of the six it is, starting with the two-minute checks.
ReadWhy your new site isn't indexed yet
Rule out the five real blockers, then use the submission route nobody mentions. A realistic timeline for a brand-new domain.
ReadWhich AI crawlers to allow, and how
GPTBot and OAI-SearchBot are not the same thing, and blocking one while meaning the other is the most common self-inflicted AEO wound there is.
ReadWhat is Answer Engine Optimization?
AEO, GEO, LLM SEO — the labels are multiplying faster than the practice. Here's a plain definition, an honest comparison with SEO, and what the work actually consists of.
ReadHow to check if ChatGPT knows your business
Asking ChatGPT about your own company while signed in tells you almost nothing. Here's the test that actually produces a number you can act on.
ReadHow to get cited by Perplexity
Perplexity cites everything it uses, so unlike other engines it tells you exactly who beat you and with which page. That makes it the best diagnostic tool you have.
ReadHow to get recommended by Claude
Claude hedges more than the other engines and names fewer companies. The bar is higher — which is exactly why fewer competitors are trying to clear it.
ReadHow to appear in Google AI Overviews
AI Overviews sit on top of the index you've already been optimizing for a decade. That makes this the one AI surface where your existing SEO work is a genuine head start.
ReadHow to choose an AEO tool
Most AEO tools measure. Very few fix anything. Knowing which you're buying is most of the decision — and sometimes the answer is neither.
ReadSchema markup for AI search: what to add first
You don't need forty schema types. You need four, done properly and linked together — here's the exact markup and the order to add it in.
Readllms.txt: what it is and how to write one
llms.txt is a proposal, not a standard, and the honest case for adding one is smaller than most posts admit. It's still worth twenty minutes. Here's why, and how.
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