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What to Do When AI Mentions Competitors but Not Us
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What to Do When AI Mentions Competitors but Not Us

When AI responses mention competitors but not your brand, it's usually not a simple ranking issue. It's the combined result of brand semantics, content coverage, external signals, and how well your brand matches the query context. Using GEO Audit reports,

Yiko Lam 2026-07-01
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Can You Do GEO If Your SEO Isn’t Well Optimized?
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Can You Do GEO If Your SEO Isn’t Well Optimized?

I’m often asked this question: if your SEO foundation isn’t strong enough, does that mean you shouldn’t start doing GEO? Many content teams already working on digital operations tend to assume that “poor SEO = immature content system = GEO is also difficu

2026-06-16
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Meet Our GEO Engineers

20 years deep in search optimization, witnessing three major shifts in core search engine algorithms

Rachel Dai

YouFind Digital

Senior SEO/GEO Engineer

20 Years of Search Optimization, From PageRank to GEO

With 20 years deep in search optimization, Rachel has lived through three major shifts in core search engine algorithms — from the PageRank era to the BERT era, and now the era of generative AI engines. She began her SEO career in 2005, working successively at [Former Company 1 — TBC] and [Former Company 2 — TBC], joined YouFind in 2020, and now focuses on dual-engine GEO + SEO delivery for cross-border e-commerce and B2B services.

She excels at translating complex algorithmic mechanics into executable optimization plans. Over the past 20 years she has run 500+ projects spanning Shopify cross-border e-commerce, SaaS tools, B2B services and more. The "Australian outdoor brand: 4x growth in 6 months" case study reviewed in this article was led entirely by her. Rachel is also a core researcher at the YouFind GEO Optimization Lab, continuously tracking how the six major AI engines change their citation mechanisms.

20+
Years in search optimization
3
Algorithm shifts witnessed
6
Major AI engines tracked
Shopify Cross-border E-commerce SaaS Tools B2B Services GEO Citation Optimization SEO Growth Reviews

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