https://devmayankjain.com Mayank Jain is a Technical SEO Consultant and AI Search Researcher helping businesses fix crawling, indexing, and ranking problems while building visibility across AI Overviews, AEO, and GEO. Technical SEO consulting since 2017. en-us https://devmayankjain.com/research/llm-citation-rate-tracking-methodology https://devmayankjain.com/research/llm-citation-rate-tracking-methodology Tue, 28 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT Most citation rate numbers people quote are one-off screenshots. This is the tracking methodology I built so the number means something over time. https://devmayankjain.com/articles/aeo-vs-geo-difference https://devmayankjain.com/articles/aeo-vs-geo-difference Mon, 20 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT Both terms get used interchangeably, and that's causing more confusion than it should. Here's the distinction I actually use, based on running both kinds of optimization side by side. https://devmayankjain.com/research/ai-overview-citation-vs-rank-position https://devmayankjain.com/research/ai-overview-citation-vs-rank-position Tue, 14 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT I assumed the page ranking first would get cited first inside AI Overviews. After pulling 400 queries, that assumption barely held up. https://devmayankjain.com/research/entity-clarity-and-geo-citation-rate https://devmayankjain.com/research/entity-clarity-and-geo-citation-rate Tue, 02 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT Does making an entity unambiguous in your content actually change whether ChatGPT, Perplexity, or Gemini cite you? I ran a controlled test to find out. https://devmayankjain.com/research/ai-crawler-behavior-log-analysis https://devmayankjain.com/research/ai-crawler-behavior-log-analysis Mon, 11 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT GPTBot, PerplexityBot, and ClaudeBot don't crawl anything like Googlebot. Server logs from six sites show just how differently. https://devmayankjain.com/research/schema-markup-citation-lift-test https://devmayankjain.com/research/schema-markup-citation-lift-test Sat, 18 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT FAQPage schema is one of the most recommended tags in AEO advice. I tested whether it earns its reputation. https://devmayankjain.com/research/march-2026-core-update-observations https://devmayankjain.com/research/march-2026-core-update-observations Sun, 29 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT Most of what got published about this update was speculation from a handful of screenshots. Here is what I measured across sites I actually have data on.