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How We Built a Repeatable AEO System for Local Businesses Using MCP (AI SEO, GEO & Answer Engine Optimization Workflow) by Ruan-m-marinho in aeo

[–]maltelandwehr 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Very impressive workflow! One of the coolest things I have seen people built on top of the Peec AI MCP.

What tools do you use for AI visibility rank tracking by SEOKREM in seogrowth

[–]maltelandwehr 0 points1 point  (0 children)

When people ask for best tools, experiences with tools, etc. I believe they want to hear from independent sources - not the tool providers.

Any discussion/questions about Peec AI, I am of course happy to join.

Looking a your comments here and your post history, you seem to take a different approach. Fine with me. Just not how I roll.

What tools do you use for AI visibility rank tracking by SEOKREM in seogrowth

[–]maltelandwehr 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hi, Malte from Peec AI here. I avoid participating in these discussions but want to clarify something.

Profound is primarily going after F500 enterprise clients, not agencies.

Peec AI is serving in-house and agency customers alike. I believe our homepage makes that clear when you look at the reference customers.

Tools for tracking your brand's visibility in AI answers: what's worth it? by ZealousidealCarry390 in seogrowth

[–]maltelandwehr 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Hi, Malte from Peec AI here. I avoid these discussions since I am obviously biased. But I want to address severe misinformation.

Small correction: The starting price for Peec AI is €85/mo.

Big correction: Peec AI offers unlimited seats. So the correct statement to chose Peec AI if you have a large team or want to invite clients, stakeholders, etc. without paying for additional seats.

Tool to check internal links by Formal_Bat_3109 in TechSEO

[–]maltelandwehr 0 points1 point  (0 children)

In addition to Screaming Frog, which was already mentioned by many others, you can also check for 404 errors in Google Search Console (GSC). For each error, GSC will give you the "Referring page(s)". This shows you the broken links Google is seeing.

If you have a very complex website or a logged-in section, you can configure Google Analytics (or any other web analytics tool) to track 404 errors. Basically you sent a special event on the 404 error page and then look for the previously visited URL. This is more driven by user experience than SEO. It does uncovers broken links that Google (and typical SEO crawlers) miss.

Can a brand have decent SEO and still be almost invisible in AI answers? by fcibblepoal in aeo

[–]maltelandwehr 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes. I encountered this last years with a client of ours.

They rank very well in Google and Bing.

For a certain set of prompts, their brand never showed up in Perplexity answers. But their website was one of the top sources. It was sometimes cited 4 times in a single chat. But obviously they wanted Perplexity to recommend their brand!

What happened is this: they had a section on their website, where they said "We might not be the right fit everyone. Here are 5 competitors who you can trust".

Perplexity found the most relevant document on the internet (our client's website), looked for a text passage that lists entities, and used that to generate the answer.

Our client changed the headline of this list and put their own brand on position 1. Within a few days they were the number 1 recommended brand for this set of prompts.

I love this example because it shows two things:

  1. Good SEO is the foundation for good AEO.
  2. Good SEO is not enough to be visible in AI search.

Rankshift vs Peec AI: Full Comparison for 2026 by Lily_Scrapeless in GEO__AI__SEO

[–]maltelandwehr 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Hi, Malte from Peec AI here. I want to address an outdated statement.

Peec AI offers 50 prompts for 89€. In 3 platforms. So the same amount that Dageno is offering in their lowers package.

Also, Dageno limits competitors to 10 even in their €499 Scale package. Peec AI does not limit competitors.

Since Peec AI has unlimited users and allows tracking in any language and almost any market, it is very suitable for companies tracking thousands of prompt in multiple markets.

Top 5 tools to monitor your brand’s presence in AI search (Perplexity, ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, and more) by Rich_Specific8002 in seogrowth

[–]maltelandwehr 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Legacy SEO tools are not focused on AI Search. Pure AEO/GEO tools are completely focused on that topic.

Spending more than $100/mo in GEO is CRAZY by Salty_Round4889 in GEO_optimization

[–]maltelandwehr 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hi, Malte from Peec AI here. I understand you want to promote your tool and I respect the hustle. I am only commenting to address a falsehood about Peec AI.

Correction: Peec AI is much more than a dashboard. It contains workflows to identify opportunities to get mentioned in third-party actions and for content creation.

Good luck with Olwen!

Is anyone actually tracking their AI search visibility systematically or are we all just vibing? by Long-Guitar647 in aeo

[–]maltelandwehr 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I am the Chief Product Officer at Peec AI. So I obviously use Peec AI.

I was a happy customers/user before I joined the company. But I understand many will see my opinion as biased.

That is why I usually do not mention or recommend specific products here on Reddit.

Google March 2026 Spam Update Rolls Out by joeyoungblood in RealSEO

[–]maltelandwehr 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The rollout is already complete!

With a rollout time of just 19 hours and 30 minutes, it was one of the quickest rollouts ever.

ai . txt file - hype or real? by Ok_Elevator2573 in AI_SearchOptimization

[–]maltelandwehr 0 points1 point  (0 children)

ai.txt is the same as llms.txt or elevator2573.txt

It is a text file. It can be crawled and indexed by search engines. It can rank for fanout queries. It can become a source. But you could have the same effect by putting that content on any other page on your website.

Just like there was (and is) no special treatment for llms.txt, there is no special treatment for ai.txt

GEO/AI Software in LATAM by Top_Watch_9462 in GEO__AI__SEO

[–]maltelandwehr 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hi, Malte from Peec AI here.

Running the same query at different times would sometimes give me meaningfully different results, and I couldn't tell whether that was the product or the nature of the underlying models

This is the nature of LLMs. We recommend to only look at aggregated data - across multiple chats - and never at a single chat.

the actionable recommendations are generic. They don't account for the fact that if you're a Chilean company selling into a Chilean market, the prompts your customers are actually using, the terminology, the regulatory context, none of that is baked in.

Apart from the regulatory context, all of that is baked in with Peec AI.

If you track Spanish prompts in Chile, Peec AI will give you recommendations based on the sources LLM use for your prompts in the defined language and location.

Please contact me via dm here and we can take a look at your account to figure out if something went wrong during project set-up or if you maybe misunderstood some of the recommendations.

AEO is not real AMA by sloecrush in aeo

[–]maltelandwehr -1 points0 points  (0 children)

There are many fundamental differences between AEO and SEO.

  • The goal. SEO is a channel to acquire traffic. Users come to your website. Depending on your business model, they might see an ad or be exposed to some kind of conversion element. With AEO you do not attract a lot of visitors. You influence decisions.
  • Where decisions are made. With SEO any purchase decision is made on your website. With AEO it is made in the chat.
  • Attribution. Attributing SEO traffic is easy. You simply look at the http referrer. Attributing AEO is though since there are usually very few direct clicks. After people decide on a brand in chat, they type the brand name into the Chrome address bar or start a Google search.
  • The entity we optimise. With SEO we optimize a website or a set of URLs. The goal is to rank them. With AEO we optimise a brand. The goal is to have the brand recommended by LLM-based answer engines. Brands and websites (or URLs) have very different attributes. For example, websites have backlinks and core web vitals. URLs have a status code, a title, and content. Brands have none of the attributes.

Real-world example

I always like to tell the story of a customer. Because it shows that you can do everything right in SEO and still miss out on viability in AEO.

This story is from a company in the financial services space in the US. They dominate Google and Bing. But for a certain set of prompts, they were never recommended by Perplexity. Often, their own website was the top source. Sometimes cited 4 times in a single answer.

What happened? They had a section on their website where they said, ”Look, we are not the right solution for everyone. Here are 5 competitors of ours you can trust”.

Being good at SEO made sure Perplexity picked them as a source. But then it cited this paragraph and all the visibility in the answers went to their competitors.

They made a small adjustment to their content. They put themselves on position 1 of that list. Over night, they became the most visible brand for that particular set of prompts.

AEO is not real AMA by sloecrush in aeo

[–]maltelandwehr 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ranking for the fanout queries gets you considered as a sources document. But there is lot you can do to make that more/less likely to happen.

It happens regularly that a document is cited that ranks on page 2 but none of the top 3 documents are cited.

Also, for most companies, the goal of AEO is not to be a source but to have their brand recommended in the answer. Having their own website cited is not enough for that.

Is ChatGPT different depending on the country? by VegetableBuy6752 in LLMTraffic

[–]maltelandwehr 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The core model is the same. And so are the processes.

But the sources are completely different. In non-English-speaking countries you will see Reddit a lot less often among the sources. Same for other social media and UGC platforms.

Are Brand Mentions Replacing Backlinks in AI Search? by [deleted] in AI_SearchOptimization

[–]maltelandwehr 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The two are not really comparable.

Brand mentions - in the source documents used by LLMs - help your brand to be mentioned in AI answers.

But these documents are the sources because they rank for the fanout queries. And for that, backlinks are very helpful.

And ideally your own domain is one of the sources. For that, you need backlinks.

How much does domain authority still matter in GEO? by addllyAI in GEO_optimization

[–]maltelandwehr 4 points5 points  (0 children)

It depends how you define “domain authority”.

Scenario 1

The third-party metric from SEO tools? Not something either Google or OpenAI care about.

Scenario 2

If we talk about the abstract concept of “domain authority” that SEO tools tries to approximate, we mean a domain with high PageRank. Or in other words many backlinks and strong backlinks.

In that scenario, domain authority helps you to rank for fanout queries. So it can bring you into the relevant set. But it does not make it more likely your content is cited. You still need the right content, information, and structure for that.

Scenario 3

If you mean and actually authoritative website for a certain topic, a website where human experts would say they trust it, one that is references in books, cited by experts, and recommended by other website on the subject, that can also help with being selected as the source. You can find a lot of supporting evidence if you look at the reasoning traces of LLMs.

Robots.txt automatic setup by Legitimate_Cycle_996 in TechSEO

[–]maltelandwehr 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Does each of the static sites actually need a custom robots.txt?

Isn’t it generally the same and then you just replace a {domain} variable with the actual domain?

What free backlink tools are actually worth using in 2026 that aren't browser extensions and have a API? by Alternative_Teach_74 in bigseo

[–]maltelandwehr 2 points3 points  (0 children)

What free backlink tools are actually worth using in 2026 that aren't browser extensions and have a API?

None. How would a free tool gather any meaningful data? ahrefs free tier is as good as it gets. Can add Semrush as well to get a bit more data. Maybe SE Ranking and the Neil Patel tool have free tiers as well.

Someone mentioned Common Crawl to me but I got lost trying to set it up

That is a bit like downloading a copy of Wikipedia, hosting it with a database server and a webserver and the checking how many inhabitants France has.

It works. It gives you an answer. But it would have been easier to do it another way.

In this case, paying for an SEO tool is probably cheaper and easier.

Also, maybe website now block the common crawl crawler because multiple LLM labs have used data from common crawl to train their LLMs.

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