Day 15 / Week 3 Day 1 — Run Log

Date: 2026-05-31 (Sunday)

Topic: AEO vs SEO: What changed in 2026 (this is not a rebrand)

Format: 12-slide carousel PDF (1080x1350 portrait) + LinkedIn post + X thread (1 hook + 2 reply tweets) + sources comment + 10 LinkedIn engagements + 10 X engagements.

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• 12 slides, dark navy + warm gold + green accent + blue + red + purple
• Slide 1: Cover — AEO vs SEO, what changed in 2026, not a rebrand
• Slide 2: The shift — SEO asks rank, AEO asks cite
• Slide 3: STAT 1 — 61% position 1 CTR drop when AI Overview shows
• Slide 4: STAT 2 — 76% to 38% AI citation overlap with top 10
• Slide 5: STAT 3 — FAQPage schema 41% vs 15% citation rate
• Slide 6: STAT 4 — 44% of LLM citations from first 30% of page
• Slide 7: STAT 5 — 1 fact per 80 words = 4.2x citations
• Slide 8: PLAY 1 — 40-60 word answer block (BURIED vs EXTRACTABLE)
• Slide 9: PLAY 2 — Schema (FAQPage, Article, HowTo)
• Slide 10: PLAY 3 — Entity consistency (Site, Socials, GBP, Wikipedia, Schema)
• Slide 11: KEEP / ADD / DROP framework
• Slide 12: Week 3 preview + CTA stack
• File: /Users/thunderbolt/Documents/projects/AI-marketer/Day15_Post1_AEO_vs_SEO_2026.pdf (1.2MB)

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