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Inside this week’s newsletter you'll find:

  • ​Tina Reis' data storytelling framework​ to get SEO work approved
  • A heartfelt interview with Huma Naseer​
  • 50 days until WTSFest Portland!
  • & a reminder to join our next WTSTalk πŸ‘€

Thank you to this week's WTSNewsletter sponsors: Trendos, Yoast, Demandsphere & withFrontier​

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Brilliant work by our brilliant members
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1) Aleyda Solis - The State of Ecommerce SEO & AI Search in 2026​

2) Chloe Osunsami - Digital PR Strategy in 3 Simple Steps​

3) Jojo Furnival - Agency Technical SEO in 2026​

4) Laura I. Abreu - Why Tripadvisor still matters for local SEO in 2026​

5) Marianna Mankle - Why Product Page Mapping Is the New GEO Standard​

We also want to congratulate brilliant WTSer, Jasmine Granton, on her new business, revu - a workplace therapy & mental health support service for modern, high-pressure organisations. Find out more in her announcement.

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Our latest WTSKnowledge

A strategic framework by Tina Reis, showing how data storytelling can finally get your SEO initiatives out of approval limbo and into implementation.

Learn how to:

  • Translate SEO for the C-suite - money, market share, & exposure​
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  • Structure your proposal like a story with your stakeholder as the hero​
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  • Visualise data in ways that reduce cognitive load​
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  • Build both intellectual & emotional buy-in to get your work prioritised
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  • Include ROI calculations & concrete goals for an easy "yes"

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Our latest WTSInterview

Meet Huma Naseer!
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Huma is a YouTube SEO strategist, content creation trainer, and channel growth expert managing several international kids’ content and channels under Yoola MCN, and the Like Nastya brand.

She blends creativity with data to help creators and brands grow faster through smart YouTube SEO, audience retention strategy, and multilingual optimisation.

Alongside her client work, Huma teaches YouTube content creation and mentors aspiring freelancers, empowering them to turn their passion for video into thriving digital careers.


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Whether it’s a colleague, your SEO bestie, or someone you’ve been meaning to meet IRL, WTSFest is even better when you experience it together.

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Your WTSFest conference countdowns

We'd love to see YOU at one of our upcoming full-day marketing events!
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​⏳ 50 days - Portland on May 7th, 2026
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⏳ 197 days - Philadelphia on October 1st, 2026
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WTSTalk with Aimee Jurenka & Nick Lafferty

Make Yourself Hard to Replace: The SEO-to-AI Visibility Playbook for 2026

Leadership teams are looking to SEOs who can measure and explain AI visibility. Those who can are the people teams turn to when navigating the changing search landscape.

Join Aimee Jurenka and Nick Lafferty online on:
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They'll walk through what's shifting, where executives get it wrong, and how to close the gap with smarter metrics and clearer narratives - so you can increase your scope, secure budget, and negotiate higher compensation.


Competitor Discovery 2.0: URL-Level Insights Are Here
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DemandSphere just launched a major upgrade to Competitor Discovery - and if you're tracking AI citations or SERP performance, this matters.

The tool now shows you comprehensive domain trends with market share, volatility, and growth rates across the top 20 (or 50) domains in your space.

But the real power is in the URL-level insights.

For each query, you can now see every URL from a domain that appears in the SERP over your selected date range - and track when URLs blip in and out of visibility. This matters because AI citations largely come from Google's index, so understanding which content consistently holds visibility helps you identify what performs.

Key use cases:

  • Build competitive leaderboards by content segment
  • Identify the types of content that perform best at URL level
  • Track market share trends over time

[WTSNewsletter Series] The new customer journey:
Setting up AI prompt tracking for AI search visibility

Series Author: Shannon Vize

​Shannon is the Sr. Content Marketing Manager at Conductor. She has 10+ years of experience in content and SEO. She believes all contentβ€”from long-form articles to social copyβ€”is an opportunity to educate, connect, and inspire. (And she’s loved em dashes long before AI co-opted them.)


​Missed part 2? Catch up here.​

Part 3: Which Answer Engines Should You Track for AEO / GEO?

In the world of AEO, not all models are created equal. Some browse the live web, while others rely on their training data and internal knowledge. To get a clear picture of your AI visibility, you need to understand which engines provide which lens.

ChatGPT Auto vs. Search Mode

One of the most common points of confusion is the difference between ChatGPT Auto and ChatGPT Search.

  • ChatGPT Auto is the default user experience. It blends the model's internal training data with occasional web browsing. It’s the best representation of everyday user behavior.
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  • ChatGPT Search mode forces the model to ground its answer in the web. It’s great for understanding sourcing and competitive positioning because it relies heavily on current citations.
Top AEO Engines to Track
  • Google AI Overviews (AIO): Since billions of users still start their journey on Google, tracking AIO is critical for understanding how your brand appears in AI-generated summaries on the SERP.
  • ChatGPT (Auto & Search): Because of its massive user base, this is a great window into general brand sentiment and AI market share. Tracking both auto and search mode gives a more complete picture of your AI visibility, without limiting your insights.
  • Gemini, Claude, and other emerging engines: Track each as they’re relevant to your audience or vertical. These engines can offer additional perspectives on niche markets or emerging AI search behaviors.
Best Practices for Answer Engine Tracking

Once you’ve selected your engines, follow these four rules to ensure your data leads to action:

  1. Consistency is key: Track daily, weekly, and monthly changes to reveal whether your optimization efforts are actually moving the needle.
  2. Compare performance across engines: You might have strong visibility in ChatGPT, but less in Perplexity. Identifying these gaps tells you exactly where to optimize.
  3. Analyze what gets cited most: Pay attention to the content that performs well in AI search and prioritize those content formats going forward.
  4. Adjust based on gaps: If competitors are dominating certain prompts, that’s your signal to create more authoritative, direct content to win back AI market share.
Next week: I’ll wrap things up with a look at implementation and actionable strategies for setting up your own AEO prompt tracking.

Want to learn more? Check out the Guide to AEO Answer Engine Tracking for the differences between AI models and how to track prompts across multiple engines for comprehensive AI visibility measurement.


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