AEO Intelligence · July 6–2026 (day: 12)

AEO Intelligence Digest — Week of July 6, 2026

This week's AEO crawl data reveals a watershed moment: every major SEO authority site — Moz, SEJ, Search Engine Land, Semrush, Ahrefs, and Clearscope — has simultaneously pivoted to AEO and GEO as primary editorial themes, while G2 formally separated 'AEO software' from 'SEO tools' as a distinct category. The most replicated citation-trigger tactic across top-cited pages is proprietary data studies with large-sample statistics named directly in the title, appearing independently on Peec AI, Otte