The Unlock with Oliver Bruce

How to Get Your Brand Cited by ChatGPT, Perplexity and Claude


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Oliver Bruce breaks down the real difference between SEO, AEO and GEO: search engine optimisation, answer engine optimisation and generative engine optimisation. Most marketers and most agencies treat these as the same thing with different names. They are not. They work on different surfaces, need different strategies and are measured with completely different KPIs.

The stakes are simple. In the first four months of 2026, 68% of Google searches ended without a single click. Across 680 million AI citations, just 15 domains captured 68% of all citation share. This is a winner takes all environment. If your brand is not in the top tier of cited sources for your category, you are invisible to AI.

Oliver walks through a step-by-step action plan for each discipline. How to fix your technical foundation and build topical authority for SEO. How to win featured snippets and zero click answers with AEO. How to become the source that ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude and Google Gemini trust, cite and recommend with GEO.

This is a concrete playbook you can start executing this week.

Key topics covered:

  • The real difference between SEO, AEO and GEO
  • Why 68% of Google searches now end without a click
  • How to run a technical SEO audit AI crawlers can actually read
  • Building topical authority with pillar pages and content clusters
  • The EEAT signals Google uses to judge content quality
  • Mapping the question landscape for answer engine optimisation
  • Writing direct answer content that wins featured snippets
  • Using structured data and schema to surface your content
  • Auditing whether AI tools currently mention your brand at all
  • Creating original research that AI models want to cite
  • Building offsite brand presence across PR, Reddit and LinkedIn
  • Monitoring your AI share of voice month on month
  • Key takeaway:
    The brands that win the next decade of search will run SEO, AEO and GEO in parallel. The ones still selling the 2022 playbook will disappear from the conversation.

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