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Gaurav Mehrotra
Content & SEO, GetCited. Gaurav writes GetCited's AEO and SEO guides, covering how AI search engines find and cite sources, and the technical, content and authority work that helps a brand show up in them. He has written all 161 articles, hubs and guides on the GetCited blog.
Articles by Gaurav Mehrotra
Everything Gaurav has written for GetCited
AEO articles (11)
- What is Answer Engine Optimization (AEO)?
- AEO vs SEO: What's Actually Different in 2026
- How to Track AI Citations for Your Brand in 2026
- A/B Testing for AI Search: The Complete Guide
- Schema Markup for AI Engines: Beyond Google
- Citation Drift: Why Your AI Visibility Changes Daily
- AI Visibility Tracking: How to Measure Your Brand in AI Answers
- GetCited vs Manual AEO: ROI Comparison
- Best AI Visibility Trackers in 2026: 7 Tools Compared
- AI Engine Trust Signals 2026: The Complete Guide
- Digital PR for AI Citations: A Practical Playbook
Topic hubs (12)
- Automate SEO Tasks: Letting Machines Do the Repetitive Work
- Complement your SEO: The Adjacent Skills That Round You Out
- Deepen your Knowledge: The Advanced SEO Library
- Execute an SEO Process: How to Turn Knowing SEO Into Doing It
- SEO in Your CMS: Picking the Right Platform and Working With It
- Keep up with SEO News: Staying Current Without Drowning
- Optimize for AI Search: Being the Source the Answer Draws On
- SEO in Other Search Engines: The World Beyond Google
- SEO Fundamentals: The Six Ideas Everything Else Is Built On
- SEO Tools: The Instruments, and What They Can and Cannot Do"
- Specialize within SEO: Picking a Field to Go Deep In
- Train, Test & Troubleshoot: Turning Knowledge Into Real Skill
Step-by-step guides (138)
- AI Search Content Optimization: Writing Content AI Draws On and Cites
- The AI Search Landscape: How Search Is Changing and What It Means
- AI Search Technical Optimization: Making Your Site Easy for AI to Reach and Read
- Amazon SEO Guidelines: Ranking Products Inside the World's Biggest Store
- Google Apps Script for SEO: 6 Copy-Paste Scripts for Sheets
- App Store Optimization: SEO for the App Stores
- Avoiding Duplicate Content: Telling Search Engines Which Copy Is the Real One
- Backlink Analysis: Reading the Recommendations Other Sites Give You
- Baidu SEO Guidelines: The Rules of China's Dominant Search Engine
- BigQuery & SQL for SEO: Analyzing Search Data at Real Scale
- Bing SEO Guidelines: Optimizing for the Other Big Search Engine
- Holiday SEO: Winning Black Friday and Cyber Monday Before They Arrive
- Broken Link Building: Earning Links by Fixing What's Already Broken
- Budgeting SEO: Investing Limited Resources Where They Pay Back
- Building an SEO Team: Assembling Complementary Skills That Fit Together
- Calculating SEO ROI: Proving What the Investment Actually Returns
- ChatGPT for SEO: Using AI Assistants Well Without Getting Burned
- How to Communicate SEO to Stakeholders: A Practical Playbook
- Competition Analysis: How to Study Rivals and Find the Gaps
- Content Optimisation: How to Turn a Page Into the Best Answer
- Content Pruning: Why Removing Pages Can Make Your Site Rank Better
- Crawl Budget Optimization: Getting Search Engines to Spend Their Visits Wisely
- Creating SEO Contracts: Setting Clear, Fair Expectations in Writing"
- Google Penalty Recovery: Diagnose and Fix Manual Actions
- Detect and Protect From Negative SEO: What It Is and What to Actually Do
- Developing Topic Clusters: Building Content That Reads as a Coherent Whole
- Digital PR for Link Building: Earning Links by Being Worth Covering
- Disavowing Backlinks: The Rare, Careful Tool You Probably Don't Need"
- E-commerce SEO: How Online Stores Actually Win Search
- Edge SEO: Making Changes at the Edge Without Touching the Backend
- Enterprise SEO: Doing Search at Massive Scale and Across Teams
- Establishing an SEO Strategy: How to Turn Tactics Into a Plan
- Free SEO Tests and Quizzes: Checking What You Actually Know
- Fundamentals of AI Search Optimization: Being the Answer AI Trusts
- Google AI Overviews: Becoming a Source the AI Answer Draws On
- Google Analytics for SEO: Reading What Your Visitors Actually Do
- Google Core Updates & Recovery: Why Rankings Move and How to Get Them Back
- Looker Studio for SEO: Turning Data Into Reports People Actually Read
- Google Discover: Being Found by People Who Never Searched
- Google Search Console: The Search Engine Reporting Straight to You
- Google Tag Manager for SEO: The Control Panel for Your Tracking
- The Great Decoupling: When Impressions Rise But Clicks Don't
- HTML and CSS for SEO: Tags Structure and Styles That Matter
- Image Optimization for SEO: Packing Light and Labelling Clearly
- Internal Linking for SEO: The Corridors That Guide Crawlers and Pass Importance
- International SEO Tools: Sending the Right Version to the Right Person
- International SEO: Serving the Right Country and Language in Search
- Introduction to SEO: What It Is and Why It Still Matters in 2026
- JavaScript SEO: How to Rank a Page a Search Engine Has to Build First
- JavaScript SEO Tools: 7 Ways to Test What Crawlers See
- JavaScript for SEO: When Your Content Only Exists After the Code Runs
- JavaScript for SEO: Making Sure Search Engines Can See Your Content
- Keyword Cannibalization: When Your Own Pages Compete and Everyone Loses
- Keyword Mapping: Giving Every Search One Clear Home on Your Site
- Keyword Research Tools: What They Find, and the Part They Cannot Do"
- Keyword Research: How to Find What People Actually Search For
- Knowledge Panel Optimization: Shaping the Profile Search Engines Show of You
- Link Building Tools: What They Do and Which Job You Actually Need
- Link Building: How to Earn the Votes That Make Google Trust You
- Local SEO Tools: Being the Answer to ""Near Me"""
- Local SEO: How Businesses Win Search in Their Own Backyard
- Log File Analysis for SEO and AEO: Googlebot and AI Crawlers
- Machine Learning & SEO: How Learning Systems Shape Search
- Magento SEO Guidelines: Taming the Platform's Layered Navigation Trap
- Measuring AI Search: How to Tell If AI Is Actually Sending You Anything
- Mobile Optimization for SEO: Why the Phone Is Now Your Front Door
- Mobile SEO Tools: Checking the Version Search Actually Judges
- Rank Monitoring: How to Track Rankings and Pick a Rank Tracker
- Naver SEO Guidelines: How to Rank on Naver Mobile Search
- News SEO: Winning Search When Speed and Freshness Are Everything
- On-Page SEO Tools: What They Check, and What They Cannot Judge"
- Online Events: Learning and Connecting in the SEO Community Virtually
- Online SEO Courses: The Structured Map Through a Big Territory
- Optimizing Faceted Navigation: Taming the Filter Explosion
- Optimizing Product Pages: Pages That Sell to Shoppers and Rank in Search
- Outreach for Link Building: Earning Links by Asking Well
- Pagination for SEO: How to Handle Page 1, 2, 3 Without Hurting Rankings"
- Programmatic SEO: Building Pages at Scale Without Building Junk
- Python for SEO: 6 Working Scripts for Audits and Search Console
- Quality and E-E-A-T: How Search Engines Judge Whom to Trust
- R for SEO: Statistical Analysis and Visualization for Search Data
- Ranking Drop Analysis: How to Diagnose Why Your Rankings Fell
- Reddit SEO Guidelines: Winning Where Authenticity Beats Marketing
- Regex for SEO: The Pattern-Matching Skill That Saves Hours
- Removing URLs From Google: How to Get a Page Out of Search, Properly"
- Robots.txt for SEO: The Polite Notice on Your Front Door
- SaaS SEO: Turning Search Into Sign-ups for Software Businesses
- Search Engine Official Publications: Guidance Straight From the Source
- Search News Aggregators: Bringing Many Sources Into One Place
- Search News Publications: Staying Current in a Fast-Moving Field
- SEO Audit Templates: The Checklist That Makes Sure You Miss Nothing
- Developing an SEO Audit: How to Diagnose a Site and Fix What Matters First
- SEO & Branding: Why a Known Name Is a Ranking Advantage
- Getting SEO Buy-In: How to Win the Budget for Something Slow
- SEO Dashboard Tools: Compare and Build a Free One (2026)
- Common SEO Execution Mistakes: The Avoidable Errors That Sink Good SEO
- SEO for a New Web Launch: Laying the Right Foundations From Day One
- SEO for Site Migrations: URL Mapping and Redirect Checklist
- SEO for Web Redesigns: Rebuilding Without Losing What You Built
- SEO Forecasting: How to Forecast SEO Traffic Step by Step
- SEO Forecasting Tools: What SEOs Use Accuracy and Limits
- SEO Jobs and Interviews: Landing a Role and Hiring the Right People
- Measuring SEO: How to Know Whether Any of It Is Working
- SEO Myths: Separating Durable Truth From Persistent Nonsense
- SEO Newsletters: Curated Highlights Delivered to Your Inbox
- SEO Podcasts: Learning From the Field While You Do Something Else
- SEO Predictions, Trends and Tips: How to Think About What's Coming"
- SEO Process Management: How to Turn Scattered Effort Into a Machine
- SEO Product Management: Running SEO Like a Product, Not a To-Do List"
- Reporting SEO: How to Turn Numbers Into a Story People Act On
- SEO Testing: Replacing Guesswork With Evidence About What Actually Works
- SERP Features Optimization: Winning the Special Spots Beyond the Blue Links
- Setting SEO Goals: How to Turn a Strategy Into Targets You Can Measure
- Shopify SEO Guidelines: What Actually Works Inside the Platform
- Showing SEO Value to Non-SEOs: Making Invisible Work Undeniably Real
- Small Business SEO: Winning Search Without a Big Budget
- Soft Skills for SEO: The Non-Technical Half of the Job
- Squarespace SEO Guidelines: Getting the Most Out of a Beautiful, Locked Box"
- How to Start an SEO Business: Turning the Skill Into a Living
- Structured Data Tools: Labeling Your Content So Machines Understand It
- Structured Data for SEO: Labelling Your Content So Machines Understand It
- Technical SEO: How to Make Your Site Easy for Search Engines to Use
- The Learning Accelerator: How to Actually Get Good at SEO Fast
- TikTok SEO Guidelines: Getting Found on the Search Engine People Don't Call Search
- AI Search Tools: What They Do, What They Cannot Do, and How to Choose"
- Travel SEO: Winning Search in a Seasonal, Inspiration-Driven Industry"
- Video SEO: How to Describe a Video a Search Engine Cannot Watch
- Page Speed Tools: A Quick Optimization Test and What to Fix First
- Web Speed Optimization for SEO: How to Make a Page Load Fast
- Web Stories for SEO: The Tappable Visual Format on the Open Web
- Webflow SEO Guidelines: Using Total Design Freedom Without Breaking SEO
- Why My Page Doesn't Rank: A Calm Diagnostic Ladder
- Wix SEO Guidelines: Judging the Platform on Its Current Wiring
- WordPress SEO Guidelines: Managing Total Freedom Without the Chaos
- WordPress SEO Plugins: The Control Panel They Bolt Onto Your Site
- XML Sitemaps for SEO: The Directory You Hand a Search Engine at the Door
- Yandex SEO Guidelines: How to Optimise Your Site for Yandex
- YouTube SEO Guidelines: Getting Your Videos Found and Recommended
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