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Practical, step-by-step walkthroughs for the GEO and digital marketing fundamentals that matter most — from optimising your Google Business Profile for AI search to setting up accurate ad tracking.

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GEO & AI Search

How to Optimise Your Google Business Profile for AI Search

A step-by-step guide to setting up and optimising your Google Business Profile so AI assistants and Google AI Overviews recommend your business.

About 2 hours Beginner 8 steps
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SEO Fundamentals

How to Add FAQ Schema Markup to Your Website

Learn how to mark up your FAQ content with schema.org structured data so AI assistants and search engines can read and cite your answers directly.

About 1 hour Intermediate 7 steps
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GEO & AI Search

How to Check If Your Business Appears in ChatGPT and AI Overviews

A practical method for testing and tracking whether AI assistants like ChatGPT, Perplexity and Google AI Overviews mention or recommend your business.

About 30 minutes Beginner 7 steps
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SEO Fundamentals

How to Build a Content Cluster for Topical Authority

A step-by-step framework for planning and publishing a pillar page and supporting articles that build topical authority and earn AI citations.

About half a day to plan Intermediate 8 steps
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Paid Media & Tracking

How to Set Up Meta Conversions API (CAPI) for Accurate Ad Tracking

A step-by-step guide to setting up Meta's Conversions API so your Facebook and Instagram ad campaigns track conversions accurately, despite ad blockers and iOS privacy restrictions.

About 2-3 hours (with developer support) Advanced 8 steps
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Analytics & Measurement

How to Run a Basic Technical SEO Audit

A step-by-step checklist for auditing your website's technical SEO health — covering crawlability, Core Web Vitals, indexing, and structured data.

About 2 hours Intermediate 8 steps
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GEO & AI Search New

How to Write Website Content That AI Will Actually Cite

A practical framework for structuring web content so ChatGPT, Perplexity and Google AI Overviews can extract, trust and cite it, not just index it.

About 1.5 hours per page Intermediate 7 steps
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GEO & AI Search New

How to Create an llms.txt File for Your Website

A step-by-step guide to creating an llms.txt file — a plain-text summary that helps AI crawlers and assistants understand your business quickly — using doubleBaRRiL's own file as a working example.

About 45 minutes Beginner 7 steps
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GEO & AI Search New

How to Submit Your Website to Bing So ChatGPT Search Can Find It

ChatGPT Search and Microsoft Copilot draw heavily on Bing's index. A step-by-step guide to getting your site properly submitted and crawled by Bing.

About 30 minutes Beginner 7 steps
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SEO Fundamentals New

How to Add LocalBusiness Schema Markup to Your Website

A step-by-step guide to implementing LocalBusiness JSON-LD so search engines and AI assistants can confidently confirm your business details for local and "near me" queries.

About 1 hour Intermediate 8 steps
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GEO & AI Search New

How to Increase Your Chances of Appearing in Google AI Overviews

Practical, honest tactics for improving your odds of being cited inside Google's AI Overviews — there's no guaranteed formula, but there are real, testable levers.

About 2 hours Intermediate 7 steps
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GEO & AI Search New

How to Run a GEO Website Audit

A structured framework for auditing your own website's readiness for AI-driven discovery — entity clarity, schema coverage, and answer-first content — before investing in a full GEO programme.

About 2 hours Intermediate 7 steps
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SEO Fundamentals New

How to Build Topical Authority Over Time

A strategic framework for building genuine topical authority across many pieces of content — the compounding asset that underpins both traditional SEO rankings and AI citation.

Ongoing strategic effort, plan in a half-day session Advanced 8 steps
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SEO Fundamentals New

How to Write a Pillar Content Page

A practical outline framework for writing a single, comprehensive pillar page that anchors a topic — the structural mechanics of the page itself.

About half a day to draft an outline and first pass Intermediate 8 steps
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SEO Fundamentals New

How to Fix NAP Inconsistency Across Your Online Presence

A step-by-step process for finding and fixing inconsistent Name, Address and Phone number details across your website, directories and profiles — a foundational local SEO and GEO trust signal.

About 1.5 hours, more for many locations Beginner 7 steps
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GEO & AI Search New

How to Use Question Research Tools for GEO Content Planning

A practical method for using question-research tools to plan GEO content around the exact questions your buyers are asking AI assistants and search engines.

About 1 hour Beginner 7 steps
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GEO & AI Search New

How to Get Cited by Perplexity

Practical tactics for improving your odds of being cited as a source in Perplexity's AI-generated answers, based on how Perplexity's retrieval and citation model actually works.

About 1.5 hours Intermediate 7 steps
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SEO Fundamentals New

How to Set Up IndexNow for Faster Search Indexing

A step-by-step guide to implementing the IndexNow protocol, so Bing, Microsoft Copilot and other participating search engines learn about new and updated pages within minutes.

About 1 hour (with developer support) Intermediate 7 steps
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GEO & AI Search New

How to Optimise Your LinkedIn Profile and Company Page for AI Search

A step-by-step guide to structuring your LinkedIn company page and founder/executive profiles so they reinforce your entity clarity across AI-powered search and recommendation systems.

About 1 hour Beginner 7 steps
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GEO & AI Search New

How to Build an External Citation Strategy for GEO

A framework for earning genuine mentions and citations on other credible sites — the off-site trust signal that strengthens both traditional SEO authority and AI citation likelihood.

Ongoing strategic effort Advanced 7 steps
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Analytics & Measurement New

How to Track GEO Performance Over Time

A framework for building an ongoing GEO measurement practice — beyond a one-off visibility check — so you can see whether your AI-search presence is genuinely improving.

About 2 hours to set up, then ongoing Intermediate 7 steps
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Analytics & Measurement New

How to Use Google Search Console for GEO Insights

A practical guide to the Search Console reports most relevant to GEO — surfacing signals connected to AI Overviews, query patterns, and the technical health AI crawlers depend on.

About 1 hour Intermediate 7 steps
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Analytics & Measurement New

How to Set Up Bing Webmaster Tools

A step-by-step guide to setting up Bing Webmaster Tools — the foundation for Bing indexing, IndexNow, and the data behind Copilot and ChatGPT Search's Bing-powered results.

About 30 minutes Beginner 7 steps
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Analytics & Measurement New

How to Use the Bing AI Performance Dashboard

A guide to interpreting Bing Webmaster Tools' AI-surface reporting, which reflects visibility inside Microsoft Copilot and Bing's own AI-generated answers.

About 45 minutes Intermediate 7 steps
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GEO & AI Search New

How to Build a B2B Enterprise GEO Strategy

A strategic framework for rolling out Generative Engine Optimisation across a larger B2B organisation — governance, prioritisation, and the org-level considerations a single-site GEO checklist doesn't cover.

Strategic planning effort, plan across several sessions Advanced 7 steps
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SEO Fundamentals New

How to Write a Case Study Page Structured for AI Citation

A step-by-step framework for writing case study and proof pages so AI systems can extract and cite the specific, verifiable results — not just human readers skimming for social proof.

About 2 hours Intermediate 7 steps
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SEO Fundamentals New

How to Add HowTo Schema Markup to Your Website

A step-by-step guide to implementing HowTo structured data for instructional content, so AI assistants and search engines can parse and cite your step-by-step guides directly.

About 1 hour Intermediate 7 steps
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GEO & AI Search New

How to Build Toward a Google Knowledge Panel

A realistic guide to the entity and structured-data work that increases your odds of Google building a Knowledge Panel for your business — with honest expectations about what you can and can't control.

Ongoing effort over several months Advanced 7 steps
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Paid Media & Tracking New

How to Set Up Google Ads AI Max for Search Campaigns

A step-by-step guide to setting up Google's AI Max for Search Campaigns feature — expanded automated targeting and creative built on top of your existing Search campaigns.

About 1.5 hours Intermediate 7 steps
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Paid Media & Tracking New

How to Set Up Server-Side Tracking for Accurate Ad Attribution

A platform-agnostic guide to implementing server-side tracking, using a server-side tag container to restore conversion accuracy lost to ad blockers and browser privacy restrictions.

About half a day (with developer support) Advanced 8 steps
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