AEO
Product Feed Compliance for AI Shopping: The Eligibility Checklist
AI shopping surfaces only recommend products whose feeds pass spec. The field-by-field eligibility checklist: identifiers, price, variants, and policy data.
Vijaya Kumar Channalli
Serial SaaS founder. Building AEOsome, helping eCommerce brands get their products recommended when shoppers ask AI what to buy - turning AI searches into sales
AEO
When AI Describes Your Brand Wrong: Fixing Entity Consistency
AI describes your brand wrong when its sources disagree. A five-step fix: audit every answer engine, reconcile the properties you control, correct the sources AI trusts.
AEO
Product Schema and Structured Data for AI Recommendations (JSON-LD, GTIN)
No AI-specific product schema exists. Here are the Product + Offer JSON-LD fields, GTIN rules, and variant modeling deciding whether AI engines recommend your SKUs.
AEO
Should You Block or Allow AI Crawlers on Your Store? (The GPTBot Myth)
Blocking GPTBot stops model training, not ChatGPT Shopping. See what each AI crawler controls and what your eCommerce store should actually block in robots.txt.
AEO
What Is AEO (Answer Engine Optimization)? Why E-Commerce Brands Can't Ignore It in 2026
AEO helps e-commerce brands get cited by AI search tools. 31.3% of Americans now use generative AI search — here's what it means for your store's revenue.
AI Shopping
Why ChatGPT Recommends Your Competitor Products
ChatGPT doesn't rank pages, it selects products from structured feeds. Strong Google rankings don't transfer. Four specific signals determine who appears in AI shopping carousels.
AI Shopping
Why Your Products Don't Appear in ChatGPT Shopping
50+ tools track AI brand mentions. For ecommerce, that solves the wrong problem entirely. Brand mentions don't drive product recommendations. Here's what actually does.
AI Shopping
What Is the AI Shopping Customer Journey?
AI search has 9 intent stages. Each drives different carousel rates and brand outcomes. Most brands show up for just two. Here's what it takes to appear across all 9.
AI Shopping
The Fashion Brands ChatGPT Recommends Most (5,072 Carousels Analyzed)
We analyzed 5,072 ChatGPT shopping carousels. The winner isn't Zara or ASOS — it's Lulus, a mid-size DTC brand. The pattern has nothing to do with brand recognition.
AI Shopping
We Analyzed 8,520 ChatGPT Shopping Queries. Here's How to Get Recommended
We analyzed 8,520 ChatGPT shopping queries. Only ~60% triggered a product carousel. Intent stages vary by 90 points. Here's what drives AI recommendations.