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Follow structured, evidence-led guides for substantial SEO and AI-search tasks. Each guide defines the job, orders the work, shows the evidence, and ends with a completion point.
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Move from reader job and claim classification through research, drafting, skeptical review, technical preparation, publication, and maintenance.
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Guides are reserved for tasks that need a substantial ordered workflow. Shorter decisions remain focused articles, checklists, or tools.
Use matched weekdays, one primary action, live-post checks, UTM discipline, and explicit confounders to compare Business Profile post and control windows without treating interaction counts as ranking proof.
French news publishers can use AI to accelerate document review, transcription, accessibility, quality control and format adaptation—while keeping human accountability and original reporting at the center. This guide maps the technical, editorial and measurement work required across Google News, Discover, AI answers and direct readership.
Audit testimonial provenance, disclosures, crawlability, structured-data limits, claim portability, and observed AI citations without promising influence.
Answer Engine Optimization (AEO) is the work of making content eligible, clear, verifiable, and measurable across systems that generate direct answers. This guide separates durable practices from citation and schema myths.
Separate business mentions, visible citations, click destinations, and profile cards; then classify source ownership and claim support without turning a sampled source mix into a ranking factor.
Verify employer, role identity, freshness, location eligibility, and the application destination before sharing personal data or treating a listing as active.
Compare Perplexity Router and Agent API by retrieval ownership, tool evidence, citations and fallback using a 24-field run ledger.
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A guide earns its length by helping a reader complete a demanding task. It should be navigable, testable, and useful after the first read.
The opening states who the guide is for, what decision or task it supports, and what remains outside its scope.
Sections follow the work itself. Examples, evidence, and limitations appear beside the decisions they constrain.
The ending defines what finished looks like, what still needs monitoring, and which tool or checklist supports the next step.
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