Technical SEO Still Comes First in the GEO Era
Every marketing team wants to show up in AI answers. ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, and Google’s AI Overviews are now part of how people research brands, and Generative Engine Optimization (GEO) has quickly become a budget line of its own. The risk is in how that budget gets funded. When GEO money is taken from technical […]
Google’s September 2026 Spam Update: What It Means for Your Site
Google began rolling out its September 2026 spam update on September 24. It applies to every country and every language, which means Arabic and English results across the UAE, Saudi Arabia and the wider Gulf are all in scope. This is Google’s fourth spam update of the year, and it arrives with a notably longer […]
Introducing Cited.ae: AI visibility, measured honestly
The web stopped handing out links The way people find information has changed. For twenty years, search handed you a page of links and left you to do the sifting. You scanned ten results, opened a few, and decided for yourself. That is not how it works anymore. Millions of people now ask an AI […]
5 Reasons to Choose Sandstorm Digital
Search has changed more in the last two years than in the previous ten. AI Overviews, Google AI Mode, and answer engines now sit between your brand and your customer, deciding who gets seen and who gets skipped. Most agencies are still selling the playbook that worked in 2022. We are not most agencies. Here […]
Does Schema Markup Boost AI Citations?
There is a claim making the rounds in SEO circles right now: add schema markup to a page and you will instantly boost how often AI models cite you. It sounds clean, it sounds actionable, and it fits neatly into a checklist. It is also almost certainly wrong, at least in the way it is […]
Your Traffic Is Down. Your Visibility Might Not Be.
You opened your dashboard, saw organic traffic down again, and your first thought was probably some version of “what are we doing wrong?” Maybe nothing. That’s the strange part. Your rankings are stable. Your content is solid. Your site is healthy. And your traffic is still falling, because more and more of your audience is […]
Google Adds Category and Sale Duration to Merchant Listing Structured Data
Google has quietly expanded what product pages can say about themselves. This week the Merchant listing structured data documentation gained two additions: support for a product category property and a new mechanism for expressing how long a sale price lasts. Neither is a required field, but both close a long-standing gap between what merchants declare […]
Google’s June 2026 Spam Update
Google has started rolling out the June 2026 spam update. The release confirms the update applies globally and to every language. If your traffic or rankings move over the next few days, this is the first place to look before you assume anything else is wrong. What Google actually said The dashboard entry is short: […]
Gemini x Google Business Profile
If you manage a Google Business Profile, something quietly significant happened this month. Google connected Gemini directly to GBP, turning what was a fairly static listing management tool into a conversational AI assistant that actually knows your business. This is not a minor update. It is a structural shift in how Google expects businesses to […]
Crawl Budget: The Silent SEO Issue Hurting Your Rankings
On mobile devices, 77% of search queries now end without a single click to an external website. That number gets worse when your pages are not even indexed. Crawl budget is the reason most sites never make it to the starting line, and in 2026 it has a new dimension that most technical SEOs are […]
