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GEO

How AI Engines Choose Suppliers: A Quotability Checklist

When a buyer asks an AI which suppliers exist in your field, the AI writes a short list from the material it can find. Six checks, no tools required, one hour on your own site.

GEO · 4 min read
GEO

We Asked AI About 20 Product Categories. Here's Who It Named

We took 20 product categories typical of Chinese export suppliers, pulled the AI answer for each, and recorded every source it cited. The result was not what we expected: most queries got no AI answer at all, and most citations did not go to content sites.

GEO · 5 min read
SEO

Stop Building Keyword Lists From Your Internal Product Names

"In our industry everyone calls it investment casting." Maybe. But that is not what buyers type into the search box. Three ways internal naming and buyer language drift apart, and five free places to find the real terms.

SEO · 4 min read
Conversion

How to Design an Inquiry Form People Actually Fill In

A site with few inquiries usually has a traffic problem in the story, and a last-screen problem in reality. Every extra field costs you submissions — too few and you cannot qualify anyone. Here is where the line sits.

Conversion · 4 min read
Conversion

Translating Your Site Is Not Multilingual SEO

Five translated languages is not a five-language website. Keyword lists must be rebuilt per market, hreflang must point both ways, and the language switcher must use crawlable links. Miss one and those pages may as well not exist.

Conversion · 4 min read
SEO

The First 90 Days of SEO for a Factory Website

Whether your site launched last month or has sat idle for two years, the first 90 days are about order, not effort. A 12-week roadmap in three stages, each with a finish line you can check.

SEO · 5 min read
SEO

Your Site Is Slow for Overseas Buyers. Check These 5 Things

It opens instantly for you and spins for your overseas buyer. That is distance plus configuration, not bad luck. Five things to check in order — the first one explains half of it.

SEO · 4 min read
GEO

How to Tell Whether an Inquiry Came From ChatGPT

AI referral traffic is often invisible: ChatGPT links carry no gclid, and mobile browsers strip the referrer, so those sessions land in your reports as Direct. Here is what you can actually measure, in four layers.

GEO · 4 min read
Conversion

You Added WhatsApp. Why Did Inquiries Drop?

The form submissions fell after you added a WhatsApp button. Usually the inquiries did not disappear — they moved somewhere you are not counting. Three real causes, and how to make the two entry points help each other.

Conversion · 4 min read
Website

Why Your Export Website Gets No Inquiries: 5 Mistakes to Avoid

Spent good money on an export website but inquiries stay near zero? Usually it's not looks — it's five ordinary, fixable details.

Website · 4 min read
SEO

Google SEO vs Alibaba International: Where Does the Budget Go?

Two roads to the same overseas inquiries: a platform that charges yearly plus per-click ads, or a self-built site that compounds over time. A decision framework, no cheerleading.

SEO · 4 min read
GEO

What Is GEO? Getting ChatGPT to Recommend Your Product

More buyers now ask ChatGPT-style AI which supplier is reliable. GEO means getting named in that answer — what it is, how AI picks sources, three moves to start.

GEO · 4 min read