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Maryanna Franco writes for multiple Marketing, Business and SEO Publications, sharing her experience and knowledge.
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What co-mentions reveal about the AI recommendation gap
Published on: Search Engine Land
Date: June 11, 2026
Being understood by AI isn’t the same as being recommended by it. New research reveals the gap between the two.
Beyond Knowledge Graph Strength: what 14,140 LLM queries revealed about brand visibility in generative AI
Published on: FrictionAI
Date: May 15, 2026
A controlled 14,140-run study of 12 athletic apparel brands across 5 large language models shows that Knowledge Graph strength predicts brand surfacing direction within a category, but carries no signal across category boundaries. The variable that does the work is Category Coding: the KG description field combined with the category-aligned third-party content corpus.
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Why your brand isn’t making the AI recommendation set
Published on: Search Engine Land
Date: May 14, 2026
Most GEO advice converges around the same idea: If you want to be visible in AI-generated answers, you need to be structured, authoritative, and easy to extract.
In my opinion, even though this information is extremely valuable and valid, it’s still incomplete if your brand is already positioning itself for a future where AI-generated answers dominate search.
Opinion by Maryanna Franco, of BrilliantSEO
Recognition isn’t recommendation: the new challenge of visibility in AI search
Published on: Briefing
Date: April 22, 2026
Why AI systems know your brand exists, yet still don’t suggest it.
The intersection between recognition and recommendation is often misunderstood by professionals, as if the two were synonymous. Unfortunately, these concepts are drifting further apart. While one (recommendation) depends on the other (recognition), the reverse is no longer true.
Google’s AI Overviews, Opt-Outs, and the Post-Click Problem
Published on: Portugal Businesses News
Date: February 3, 2026
In late January 2026, Google flipped the switch on a major AI Search update: Gemini 3 is now the default model generating those AI Overviews atop your search results. And AI Search isn’t a limited experiment anymore, as we saw previously with rollouts in different geographies at different paces. AI Mode is rolling out globally, woven natively into mobile apps and browsers so that anyone can chat with Google’s AI assistant mid-search.
Google vs. publishers: What the EU probe means for SEO, AI answers, and content rights
Published on: Search Engine Land
Date: December 19, 2025
In one of the most consequential regulatory moves yet for the future of search, the European Commission has launched a formal antitrust investigation into Google. At the center of the complaint is Google’s use of publisher content to train and power AI Overviews and other generative AI features – while potentially diverting traffic away from original sources.
From SEO to GEO: I Changed My Name Before AI Made Me Invisible
Published on: Kalicube Learning Spaces
Date: June 3, 2025
We’ve crossed a line. AI is no longer a tool we use for search, it’s the one doing the searching for us. It decides who gets mentioned, who gets ignored, and which brands feel trustworthy before anyone even clicks.
How to make your brand visible in AI results: SEO for ChatGPT, Gemini and other LLMs
Published on: APPM – Associação Portuguesa de Profissionais de Marketing
Data: June 26, 2025
Artificial Intelligence is no longer just a trend; it is the new infrastructure of search. ChatGPT, Gemini, Microsoft Copilot and other assistive engines are changing how consumers discover brands, evaluate products and make decisions.
The Future of Google’s Revenue Depends on AI and So Does Your Brand Visibility
Published on: Portugal Businesses News
Date: June 18, 2025
AI Overviews are creeping into more and more queries, summarizing the answer before you even scroll. And if fewer users are clicking, what happens to the system that’s built on those clicks?
How to use SEO to help your Brand conquer AI?
Published on: Portugal Businesses News
Date: March 4, 2025
AI seems to be on the headlines of all Marketing and Business articles nowadays. And as the worry from both companies and high-level business people and entrepreneurs increases, Marketing strategies are being changed left and right with no real final goal.
Business Trust Elements: How to please Google and your users at the same time
Published on: Portugal Businesses News
Date: November 11, 2024
Trust elements are essential to get your users’ trust but they impact how Google sees you as well. Trusted websites by users get higher rankings and impressions on Google. But how to use the right trust elements and why should you care about both on-page and off-page trust elements? This article will dive into the differences, specificities and benefits of on-page and off-page trust elements.
8 Tips on how to use SEO to boost your brand
Published on: Portugal Businesses News
Date: September 20, 2024
The frequent updates of Google’s algorithm as well as its growing understanding of published content, have made Marketing efforts change the focus of their traditional strategies towards Branding (Brand Boost). This change still raises doubts in most companies: How to change what has worked so well in the last 20 years?
How to use SEO to boost your brand, by Maryanna Franco
Published on: APPM – Associação Portuguesa de Profissionais de Marketing
Date: August 8, 2024
Frequent updates to the Google algorithm, along with its increasing ability to understand published content, are shifting marketing efforts away from traditional strategies and towards branding (building and strengthening your brand). This shift still raises questions for most companies: how do you change what has worked so well over the past 20 years?
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