RAG
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How much of your page does an AI engine actually read?
Engines read passages, not pages. What survives crawling, chunking and retrieval, why position in context matters, and how to write sections that stand alone.
API testing SEO citations in RAG frameworks
AI answer engines are RAG systems, so testing whether they cite you is a retrieval problem. Here is how to test SEO citations via engine APIs and a local RAG harness.
why does perplexity hallucinate facts about my brand
Perplexity hallucinates facts about your brand when it lacks clear, authoritative, current sources to ground on. Good sources cut fabrication.
How does Perplexity's ranking algorithm work
Perplexity does not rank links, it retrieves, reranks, and synthesizes a cited answer. Here is how its pipeline works and how to optimize to be a cited source.
How to write RAG-friendly content for Answer Engines
Answer engines retrieve and lift passages, not whole pages. Here is how to write RAG-friendly content: answer-first, chunkable, question-shaped, and self-contained, so AI can cite you.