PageLyftstudio

Journal

Notes from the post-model era

Field notes on search, AI answers, and getting found, from the PageLyft studio in Miami.

Web Design

Astro vs WordPress: Why We Build Client Sites on Astro

The plain-English case for Astro vs WordPress: page speed, security, maintenance, custom design, and content portability, plus the honest caveats we won't skip.

Web Design

Website Redesign Cost: What to Budget in 2026

Published market ranges for a website redesign, the six factors that move the number, the migration cost nobody quotes, and where AI actually makes a redesign cheaper.

AI Search

What an AI SEO Agency Actually Does

The real deliverables, how AI-assisted workflows change scope and speed, what to ask before you hire, and an honest anti-pitch on who should not hire one.

AI Search

How to Measure AI Search Visibility

Prompt sampling, citation share, AI referral traffic, and brand-mention tracking. A practical framework for measuring AI search visibility and what a monthly report looks like.

AI Search

Answer Engine Optimization, Explained

What AEO means, how it overlaps with GEO, and the honest truth that the industry uses these terms loosely. Traced from featured snippets to today's AI answers.

AI Search

How to Get Cited by ChatGPT and Perplexity

Retrieval versus training data, quotable passages, schema, freshness, and the PR signals that make an AI engine reach for your page and put your name on the answer.

AI Search

GEO vs SEO: What Actually Changes

A practitioner's side-by-side of ranking versus being cited. What transfers from your SEO work, what breaks, and where the differences are overstated.

AI Search

Generative Engine Optimization: A Complete Guide

What GEO is, how AI answers get assembled, and the on-page, entity, and authority work that gets your brand cited. The hub for our AI search cluster.

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