If you are still optimizing for the blue links, you are playing a losing game....

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/10-best-answer-engine-optimization-aeo-agencies-2026-nick-malekos-tkzqf/

If you are still optimizing for the blue links, you are playing a losing game. By 2026, the real battleground for search traffic has shifted entirely to AI Overviews and LLM citations