The LiamVi blog
AI Overviews and click-through rate: the studies disagree, and this is what each one counted
The five studies most often quoted on what an AI Overview does to click-through rate put the fall at anywhere between about 15% and about 61%, and the s…
Zero-click search in 2026: what share of searches actually ends without a click
There is no single share, and anyone who quotes you one without a year, a country and a panel is passing on a number they did not check. The figures in …
Choosing an AI visibility tool in 2026: how much the recommended lists agree, and who wrote them
Six of the nine pages Google returned for ai visibility tool on 14 September 2026 answer the question with a recommended list, and across those six li…
SERP overlap in keyword clustering: how often two keywords actually return the same pages
Across the 37 search-results records we re-pulled on 9 September 2026, **607 of the 666 pairs those keywords can form — every possible pairing of the 37…
People Also Ask in an SEO strategy: read the questions against the results before you write
Our record of what Google's People Also Ask box returned covers 34 keywords, re-pulled on 9 September 2026. Thirty-one of the 34 returned a box at all, …
How to get cited by ChatGPT in 2026: eight signals, and what has actually been tested
The page that currently ranks first for this question sells eight signals, scores them out of sixteen, and tells you what your total means. We went thro…
AI visibility platforms with SEO capabilities: one tool or two, and how to tell which you need
Roughly a third of the queries in our early 33-keyword harvest drew a citation for nobody at all. No page won at any quality level, because there was no…
AI and search engine optimization in 2026: what carried over from SEO, and what we measured
Nine pages rank for this question on Google, and not one of them puts a number on whether its own advice works. We read all nine on 3 September 2026: Go…
What does ChatGPT cite in 2026: help docs, preprints and vendor pages in one measured category
On 10 August 2026 we listed the domains holding AI citations across the 58 topics we track in one category — AI visibility and search-optimisation tooli…
AI tools with the best generative engine optimization features: what the features do, and what they cannot tell you
We expected that answering the questions searchers ask would get a page quoted by an AI assistant. It seemed obvious, and it is the assumption underneat…
AI-generated content and SEO in 2026: what I can tell you, and the feature we will not build
Whether a machine or a person typed your draft is not the question that decides whether an AI assistant quotes the page. I think it is barely in the top…
Generative engine optimization strategies for AI visibility: what we tested, and what came back null
Almost every generative engine optimization strategy we have read describes a property of a page: its structure, its schema, its length, its authority…
AI visibility analytics for search optimization: what the numbers count, and what a score is measured against
The 43 pages ChatGPT actually cited in our keyword harvest reach a median of 65 on LiamVi's citability checklist, and only about one in twenty of th…
AI search optimization agencies in 2026: what they can change, what they cannot, and how to check
An AI search optimization agency sells you presence inside AI-generated answers — the ones ChatGPT, Google's AI Overviews and AI Mode, Perplexity and Ge…
Content optimization tools in 2026: what they do, and when their scores lie
We build a content optimization tool, and this year we tested the category's core instrument — the content score — against blind quality reviews run by …
Best rated competitor analysis tools for AI search optimization: who actually holds the citations
We measure which domains AI assistants cite, keyword by keyword. For the keyword "best rated competitor analysis tools for AI search optimization", the …
The best AI search optimization platform for beginners: a plain-language guide from people who measured it
If you are new to all of this, here is the honest starting point: the best AI search optimization platform for a beginner is one you can verify exists, …
Generative engine optimization companies: a verified list, and why this page shape gets cited at all
Generative engine optimization companies come in two forms — software platforms that measure whether AI assistants mention or cite your brand, and agenc…
Top user-friendly AI search optimization tools: easy to use is not the same as easy to check
The friendliest number we ever shipped was wrong, and we only found out because we had the raw evidence sitting next to it. We built a content score — o…
The best accurate data platform for AI search optimization in 2026: what we measured, and how to check any vendor
No independent audit we know of ranks these platforms on accuracy by name — but one has now measured it. An independent test of twelve AI visibility tr…
How to get citations from ChatGPT: real sources, correct formats, and what we measured
ChatGPT gives real citations only when it actually runs a search — and it decides, query by query, whether to search the web; OpenAI describes the choic…
The best AI visibility tools in 2026: what they measure, and how to judge one
The best AI visibility tools are the ones that can show you, with evidence, whether AI search surfaces like ChatGPT, Gemini, AI Mode and Google's AI Ove…