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Plain, sourced answers on how brands get cited in AI search — Generative Engine Optimization, the sources AI engines trust, and how AI visibility is measured.

What is Generative Engine Optimization (GEO)?

Generative Engine Optimization (GEO) is the practice of getting a brand cited in the answers that AI engines — ChatGPT, Perplexity, Google AI Overviews, Claude and Gemini — generat…

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Which sources do AI engines cite most?

Across large studies of AI citations, community platforms — Reddit above all — editorial/trade media, and Wikipedia are cited far more often than brand-owned pages. One analysis of…

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Does schema markup or llms.txt improve AI visibility?

They help at the margins but they are hygiene, not growth. Schema.org markup makes content easier for engines to parse, and some studies associate it with higher citation rates — b…

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How is a brand's visibility in AI answers measured?

AI visibility is best measured as a sampled frequency — the share of times your brand appears across many repeated runs of the same prompts — reported with its variance, never as a…

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