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AI search & GEO, explained for e-commerce teams.
Practical guides on generative engine optimization, AI shopping assistants, and getting your products recommended by ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Gemini.
We Ran Our Own AI Visibility Product on Ourselves. Here's Everything It Found.
A GEO company with mediocre GEO would be embarrassing. So we audited rynex.io with our own scanner and fixed every gap in public — before/after included.
The Best AI Chatbots for WooCommerce (2026) — and Which Ones Actually Understand Your Store
Most WordPress AI chatbots can't see your catalog, your cart, or your orders. We sorted the ones that can from the ones that just embed a chat window.
The 8 Best AI Shopping Assistants for Shopify (2026)
Rep AI, Tidio, Gorgias, Zipchat, Rynex and more — honestly compared on selling ability, pricing models, and what their own customers complain about.
Rynex vs Rep AI: Two AI Sales Assistants, Two Very Different Bets
Rep bets on behavioral AI and the Shopify enterprise. Rynex bets on simple pricing and every platform. An honest comparison from one of the two vendors.
Rynex vs Tidio (Lyro AI): Shopping Assistant or Support Suite?
Feature-by-feature, price-by-price. Where Tidio's maturity wins, where its three-meter pricing hurts, and when Rynex is the better fit.
AI Shopping Assistant for Shopify: What to Look For in 2026
How to choose an AI shopping assistant for Shopify in 2026 — sales assistant vs support chatbot, evaluation checklist, and how Rynex handles cart actions.
Best GEO Tools for E-Commerce in 2026, Compared
Compare the best GEO tools for e-commerce in 2026 — Profound, Peec AI, Otterly.ai, and Rynex — on measurement methodology, store fit, and pricing.
Free AI Visibility Audit: What It Checks and How to Read Your Score
What a free AI visibility audit actually checks — crawlability, structured data, real AI mentions, competitor gaps — and how to act on your score.
How to Get Your Store Recommended by ChatGPT (2026 Guide)
A practical 2026 guide to getting your store recommended by ChatGPT: AI crawler access, llms.txt, Product JSON-LD, earned mentions, and how to measure it.
llms.txt for E-Commerce: What It Is, With a Copy-Paste Template
What llms.txt is, whether AI engines actually read it, and a complete copy-paste llms.txt template for e-commerce stores, with a live example.
Product Schema for AI Search: JSON-LD That Gets You Into AI Answers
Complete copy-paste Product JSON-LD for e-commerce, plus FAQPage, BreadcrumbList, and Organization schema — and how to validate it for AI search.
Profound vs Peec AI vs Rynex: AI Visibility Tracking for Online Stores
Profound vs Peec AI vs Rynex compared for online stores — who each tool is for, how AI visibility measurement works, pricing, and when to pick which.
robots.txt for AI Crawlers: GPTBot, ClaudeBot, PerplexityBot and More
A reference table of AI crawler user-agents and a complete copy-paste robots.txt that allows GPTBot, ClaudeBot, PerplexityBot and other AI bots.
How to Track AI Search Traffic in GA4 (ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini)
Step-by-step GA4 setup to track ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Gemini referral traffic: exploration filters, an AI Search channel group, and the regex to use.
What Is Generative Engine Optimization (GEO)? The Complete E-Commerce Guide
Generative Engine Optimization (GEO) is how stores get recommended by ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Gemini. Learn how it works and how to measure it.