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AI searches

Before they answer, assistants search the web. aeoo asks the client’s questions with web search on, keeps what each assistant searched for, and groups the searches into themes to act on.

When the searches are read

After each check, aeoo asks ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini and Perplexity the questions no assistant named the client in. On the 3rd of each month it asks every tracked question. A question asked in the last week isn’t asked again. Perplexity doesn’t show its searches.

Themes

Open the client, then Progress, then AI, then Searches. The searches are grouped into themes, and each theme is checked on Google: where the client ranks, the sites ranking first, and the client’s closest page. Open a theme for its searches word for word and the questions they came from. Each question’s own page shows what every assistant searched, in order.

No page for it

Not in Google’s top 20, and no page about it.

A page, but not on page one

A page covers it, or ranks 11 to 20.

On page one, not quoted

Google shows the page, but the assistants quote others.

Looked up by name

Before recommending the business, the assistants search its name with words like cases or reviews.

Covered

On Google’s page one and quoted by the assistants.

How themes become changes

• No page for it: a blog post on a coming posting day, when the Blog posts automation is on. See Blog posts.
• A page, but not on page one: a section on the page Google shows, after Monday’s search refresh, when the Search words automation is on. See Push it.
• On page one, not quoted: a direct answer on that page, the same way.
• Looked up by name: a cases or reviews page, when the site has none and there are facts or reviews to show.

Each theme shows what comes next, or the draft it became, and every draft goes through review. When the assistants search in a language the site isn’t written in, a theme only becomes a post if New pages in that language is on under Market and languages.

Measuring

Two weeks after a change for a theme goes live, aeoo asks its questions again. If an answer quotes the page, the change’s result says so, with the date it was asked again. Results also shows the themes on Google’s page one over time, and the monthly report has an AI search section. See How results are read.