The GEO Strategy Playbook

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You didn’t sign up to become an LLM whisperer.

But here you are.

Stunned by an industry that rewired itself overnight, holding a keyword spreadsheet that increasingly resembles a relic from a previous civilization.

GEO — Generative Engine Optimization — is not a replacement for SEO. It’s the next evolution. Most principles that made your content trustworthy, authoritative, and retrievable still apply. What’s changed is where the answers get served, and how you need to structure your content to end up in those answers.

Five practical moves that’ll put your brand in the LLM answers that matter:

  1. Create the prompt universe you’ll optimize towards
  2. Track your brand’s visibility for this list of prompts
  3. Create new content targeting a handful of these prompts
  4. Forge content partnerships with cited publications
  5. Measure impact, scale what works
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Part 1: What LLM Prompts Should I Track For My Brand?

Before you can optimize anything, you need to know what your buyers are actually asking the machines. This part maps the prompt landscape around your brand: by awareness stage, and by the language real humans use when they think no one is watching.

Seven vintage monitors arranged for testing at an abandoned desert gas station

Part 2: Which Tools Are Best for AI Search Tracking?

Google AI Overviews, ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, Perplexity… they don’t all behave the same way and they don’t all matter equally to your audience. This part tells you where to focus your attention and how to track visibility across platforms without losing your mind.

Part 3: How to Optimize Your Content for GEO?

LLMs don’t rank pages. They synthesize answers. This part breaks down exactly what signals make a piece of content citation-worthy, and how to restructure what you already have before you write a single new word.

Coming soon.

Part 4: How to Leverage Content Partnerships for GEO?

The brands showing up in AI answers didn’t get there alone. Third-party mentions, earned citations, and strategic partnerships are the new backlinks. This part shows you how to build the off-site authority that the models actually trust.

Coming soon.

Part 5: How to Scale SEO Content Production Without Getting Penalized?

Volume without quality is the fastest route to invisibility. This part covers the production workflows, quality controls, and editorial guardrails that let your team move fast without handing Google a reason to bury you.

Coming soon.

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WH.

All the paranoia of a field correspondent. None of the plane tickets.

WH. has spent 14 years inside the SEO machine and started The Vector Gazette, because he got tired of watching entrepreneurs make catastrophic decisions based on advice from people who discovered GEO last Tuesday.