Jonas Tribus
CTO
Jonas Tribus is CTO at Rankprofi, where he owns the technical side of visibility: whether a site is cleanly indexable, whether it holds up in Core Web Vitals, and whether a brand gets named in an AI answer or not.
His writing covers three fields he treats as one: technical SEO, with structured data and loading performance; local visibility for businesses across German-speaking Europe and northern Italy; and generative and answer engine optimization — why ChatGPT, Perplexity or Google AI Overviews cite a company at all.
Running through all of it is the principle Rankprofi works by: measure, don't promise. For AI visibility that means a fixed prompt set and a repeatable protocol rather than a one-off snapshot.
- Focus areas
- SEO
- GEO
- AEO
Articles by Jonas Tribus
Local SEOMarketing for Tradespeople in South Tyrol: What Really Brings Customers?
Flyers, Google Ads, platforms or referrals? See what genuinely brings enquiries to trades businesses, using real search data from South Tyrol and Trentino.
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Local SEOGoogle Maps for Tradespeople: How Your Business Gets Found Locally
Customers search for electrician Bolzano, not your company name. What Google actually shows, and how tradespeople measure local visibility in South Tyrol.
28 min readRead more
SEOStructured data that actually produces rich results
Which schema.org types still produce rich results in 2026, why FAQPage stopped working in May, and how Organization markup makes a company unambiguous.
9 min readRead more
SEOCore Web Vitals in 2026: what still moves rankings
LCP under 2.5s, INP under 200ms, CLS under 0.1 at the 75th percentile. The order we fix them in, and why field data beats lab data.
6 min readRead more
AnalyticsMeasuring AI visibility: our protocol for ChatGPT and Perplexity
Freeze a prompt set, log seven fields per answer, measure monthly. The full procedure, including an honest list of what the number cannot tell you.
9 min readRead more
Local SEOLocal SEO checklist for German-speaking Europe
A local SEO checklist for Germany, Austria, Switzerland and South Tyrol: umlauts in NAP data, Business Profile rules, regional directories, reviews.
12 min readRead more
AI SearchHow AI Overviews are rewriting the first page of Google
Google says no extra optimisation exists for AI Overviews. What that means in practice, what Google leaves unsaid, and how to measure citations.
8 min readRead more
SEOGenerative engine optimization, AEO and SEO: what your business actually needs
What generative engine optimization is, how it differs from SEO and AEO, and how to decide which surface your buyers actually use, based on Google's docs.
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Generative Engine OptimizationChatGPT SEO: how to get your business cited in AI answers
Six steps with checks you can run: crawler access, entity, source consistency, Organization markup, citable paragraphs, measurement. Sourced from Google.
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