LLMEO — large language model engine optimization — is the same discipline as AEO and GEO under yet another name: making content that LLM-based systems retrieve, trust, and cite. Full entry for LLMEO in the glossary.
A technical audit of 50 major websites across retail, SaaS, travel, publishing and finance — run by SALT.agency and published by Search Engine Journal…
Via Search Engine Journal ↗ · Sep 1 · · Research, AEO, LLMEO
Common Crawl analyzed 584,107 llms.txt files gathered in its July 2026 crawl archive and found 68% were produced by templates or SEO plugins — Wix alone…
Via Common Crawl Blog ↗ · Aug 31 · · Research, AEO, LLMEO
An independent analysis of raw traffic from a ChatGPT Plus account found the model injects brand names into its own search queries that the user never…
Via PPC Land ↗ · Aug 18 · · Research, AEO, LLMEO
An Ahrefs analysis spanning roughly 15 million data points found 97% of sites' llms.txt files were never read by AI crawlers and that adding schema markup…
Via Search Engine Journal ↗ · Aug 18 · · Research, AEO, LLMEO
