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Brian Ho

Co-founder & Marketing Director, horatos.ai

Brian writes about SEO, GEO, AEO, and the way AI is rewriting the rules of how brands get found. He has spent the last eight years working across Singapore, Korea, Japan, the US, and the UK, and now leads horatos.ai from Singapore.

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Years across SG, KR, JP, US, UK

40+

Brands worked with

Articles on horatos.ai

EN · VI

Languages he writes in

Philosophy

Manage the sentence. Not the click.

Search has stopped being a list of links. It has become a sentence written about your brand.

The job is no longer to chase positions. It is to manage the sentence — what AI says, who it cites, what context it gives to the reader.

That is what horatos.ai does, and that is what every article on this site is trying to make legible.

What Brian writes about

Four overlapping disciplines.

Brian's work sits at the intersection of search and AI. Each article on this site lives in one of these four columns.

SEO

Technical SEO, on-page architecture, internal linking systems, and migrations that hold ranking equity.

GEO / AISEO

Generative Engine Optimization for ChatGPT, Google AI Overviews, Perplexity, Claude, and Gemini.

AEO

Answer Engine Optimization — structuring entities, schema, and citations so brands get quoted, not skipped.

Brand visibility

Authority building, digital PR, and the editorial side of growth. Less link-chasing, more reputation engineering.

Latest writing

Articles by Brian Ho.

11 long-form pieces on SEO, GEO, AEO, and the future of brand discovery.

Apr 202614 min read

What Is GEO? The Complete Guide to Generative Engine Optimization

A practical introduction to GEO, what it means, how it differs from SEO, and what brands can do to improve visibility in AI-driven discovery.

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Mar 202611 min read

SEO vs GEO vs AEO: What's the Difference and Why It Matters

A practical guide to the difference between SEO, GEO, and AEO, when each matters, and how they can work together.

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Feb 202613 min read

5 Technical Signals That AI Crawlers Actually Care About

A simpler look at the technical signals that help AI crawlers and search engines read your website properly.

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Mar 202612 min read

How AI Search Is Reshaping Brand Discovery in Singapore

What we are seeing in Singapore as more buyers use AI tools to research brands across finance, fintech, and SaaS.

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Feb 202611 min read

Why Your Brand Needs an AI Visibility Audit in 2026

Why checking how AI platforms describe your brand is becoming important, and what an AI visibility audit should cover.

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Jan 202613 min read

The Death of the Link Click: How Answer Engines Change Everything

What changes when more users read AI-generated answers instead of clicking through to websites, and what marketers should do about it.

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Apr 202614 min read

The Modern Technical SEO Checklist for 2026

A field-tested technical SEO checklist for 2026, covering crawl, render, index, performance, schema, internal links, and AI-crawler readiness.

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Apr 202612 min read

E-E-A-T in 2026: The Signals That Actually Move Rankings

A clear breakdown of which E-E-A-T signals actually move rankings in 2026, and how to build experience, expertise, authority, and trust on your site.

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Apr 202612 min read

The Local SEO Playbook for Singapore Businesses

A practical local SEO playbook for Singapore SMEs and multi-location brands, covering Google Business Profile, citations, reviews, and local content.

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Apr 202613 min read

Programmatic SEO: When It Works, When It Backfires

When programmatic SEO actually drives sustainable growth, when it backfires under Helpful Content updates, and how to design pages that earn rankings.

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Apr 202612 min read

Core Web Vitals & Rankings in 2026: What Still Matters

What Core Web Vitals actually do for rankings in 2026, the targets that matter, INP vs FID, and the most common ways teams misread the data.

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