Google AI Overviews appear in Google Search results for a growing share of queries, and if your content isn’t structured to earn a citation, you’re losing visibility to competitors who’ve already adapted. Unfortunately, the challenge isn’t awareness. Most SEO leaders...

Growing up, the only “top 10” I cared about was MTV’s Total Request Live (TRL). When I started working, that became the top 10 results in the Google SERP. Now, my eyes are set even higher as we marketers explore...

By Brittany Lieu, Marketing Consultant at Heinz Marketing In our recent posts on Generative Engine Optimization (GEO), we covered what makes content citable to AI and the practical steps marketers can take to get their websites GEO-ready. Those articles focused...

The brand tracking dashboard says awareness is up. Social listening tools show steady mention volume. The PR platform logged a dozen media hits last quarter. But, none of those tools show how a brand shows up when a buyer asks...

I’ve spent the last year watching marketing teams scramble to understand why their organic traffic reports tell one story while their pipeline tells another. The missing link is almost always a need for AI search analytics tools. When a prospect...

By Payal Parikh, VP of Client Services at Heinz Marketing   A quick note before we dive in: Heinz Marketing is a B2B marketing firm. We spend most of our time thinking about pipeline, sales cycles, and enterprise buying behavior. But...

Brand mentions aren’t a new concept, but answer engine optimization (AEO) is giving them a different weight. Brand mentions are any online reference to your brand, product, spokesperson, or company name; right now, they’re happening in more places than most...