AEO Intelligence · August 10–2026 (day: 16)

AEO Intelligence Digest — Week of August 10, 2026

This week's AEO crawl data reveals a clear industry consensus forming around three core citation-capture tactics: publishing original proprietary data studies with specific statistics in headlines, year-tagging every post title for freshness signals (validated at +61% citation lift in a controlled experiment), and restructuring content with BLUF openings and atomic TL;DR blocks that AI engines can extract without reading full articles. Every major SEO authority — Semrush, Moz, Ahrefs, Search Eng