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August 8, 202639 min read
How to Choose a GEO/AEO Agency: 6 Things You Must Check Before Signing (2026)
To choose a good GEO or AEO agency, you must verify how they measure AI visibility, their ability to improve your site and SEO, and the rationale behind content topic selection. This guide summarizes six key questions and a practical checklist so you can also review ownership of your domain, content, and measurement data before signing.
August 8, 202622 min read
Getting Started with ChatGPT Ads: From Campaign Structure to Conversion Tracking (2026)
How to get started with ChatGPT Ads: an easy, beginner-friendly guide to campaign and ad group structure, conversion tracking, and how to use Context Hints.
June 16, 20267 min read
A New Era of Branding Driven by the Virtuous Cycle of Data
The era of searching on Google is coming to an end. Now consumers ask AI. “What are some good running shoes these days?” In that process, some brands get mentioned by AI, while others quietly disappear. What makes the difference isn’t ad budget or follower count. It’s data.
June 13, 202630 min read
SEO Essential Guide: 7 Principles That Drive Search Visibility
This is Villion’s essential SEO guide. It summarizes key SEO factors such as intent-aligned content, accurate page structure, internal links, trust signals, user experience, and measurement setup.
June 8, 202621 min read
ChatGPT Has Started Showing Ads: Separating Ads from Recommendations Based on 100 E-Commerce Related Queries
ChatGPT has started placing ads at the bottom of its answers. Using our own GEO engine, we measured 100 U.S. e-commerce queries and found that ads appeared on..
May 22, 202625 min read
What Does GEO Mean? Why It's Not That Different From SEO and How to Prepare for the Agent Era
GEO (Generative Engine Optimization) is not a new paradigm replacing SEO. Drawing on Google's official May 2026 guidance, we cover what GEO actually is, how it really relates to SEO, and five things you can start doing in the next five minutes.
May 13, 202647 min read
Stripe's MPP: the Standard That Lets Agents Complete the Payment
Machine Payments Protocol (MPP) unveiled at Stripe Sessions 2026, the Link agent wallet, the Tempo + Visa anchor partnership, and AWS Bedrock AgentCore Payments. A look — from a GEO lens — at the standard that takes AI past being merely cited and into completing the purchase itself.
May 9, 202641 min read
How AI Search Actually Works: Seven Years of RAG Evolution and a Unified SEO·GEO Strategy
From the four-stage pipeline ChatGPT uses to find answers, through the foundational papers (Transformer, REALM, DPR, RAG), to today's techniques (HyDE, Self-RAG, GraphRAG, Agentic RAG). Drawing on OpenAI's own materials, we unpack how AI answers work and how to unify SEO and GEO.
May 7, 202634 min read
How GEO Tools Are Categorized: a Comparison Guide Across Four Buckets
Seven AI search visibility tools (Profound, Semrush, Bluedot, Otterly, AthenaHQ, Peec, Villion) grouped into four categories, with a primary-source comparison of each tool's strengths and limits.
April 22, 202659 min read
Google UCP and Agentic Commerce: When AI Does the Buying, What Should Brands Do?
Google's Universal Commerce Protocol (UCP) unveiled at NRF 2026, set against Amazon's Rufus, Alexa+, and Buy for Me. A side-by-side look at the two camps and a dual-track GEO playbook for SMB and mid-market brands.
April 10, 202613 min read
Why Korean E-commerce Brands Vanish in AI Search and How to Fix It
Single-image product detail pages, missing structured data — the structural reasons Korean e-commerce loses ground in AI search, with a step-by-step playbook for fixing it.
March 15, 20269 min read
Is SEO Over? Why SEO Matters More in the GEO Era
As AI search spreads, so does the chorus declaring SEO dead. The opposite is true: SEO is now more important — because GEO depends on it. A look at the SEO-GEO relationship and a unified strategy.
March 4, 20266 min read
Villion Signs Strategic Partnership With Communications Firm Domo
The two companies will jointly advance GEO-based solutions and run proof-of-concept projects to shape brand communications for the AI era.
February 20, 202618 min read
The Zero-Click Era: Five Conditions That Get Your Brand Cited by AI
Fifty-six percent of searches now end without a click. Five conditions your brand must meet to be cited and recommended in AI answers.