Dated, source-cited research and guides on AI visibility and GEO. Every page states when its data was last verified.
What makes ChatGPT and Google's AI name a salon, clinic or barber: the Google profile, reviews, your own site and the guides AI cites, ranked by evidence, plus what controlled tests found does nothing.
LinkedIn, YouTube, Instagram, Reddit, X: which ones actually show up in AI answers, on which engines, and what the evidence can and can't tell you yet. Ranked for B2B and local businesses.
Do backlinks still matter when ChatGPT, Perplexity and Google's AI answer the question? Six studies, one Google policy and our own measurement, compared side by side.
B2B software buyers now ask ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, Claude and Grok for the shortlist. Here's where B2B SaaS actually gets cited, and the archetype-specific playbook — with dated 2026 evidence.
What to actually measure to know whether AI engines mention and recommend your brand — per engine, separating what's observed from what's fixable. Dated 2026 methodology, reviewed quarterly.
A neutral, dated guide to choosing an AI-visibility / GEO tool — the criteria that actually matter, and an honest landscape of Profound, Semrush, Peec AI, Otterly and S6S. Reviewed quarterly.
Grok answers from both the live web and X's real-time post stream — a data mix no other engine has. Here's how it picks sources, and how to be one, with dated 2026 evidence.
Our working model of how ChatGPT decides what to mention — trained knowledge, a live web search that blends several providers, and an inferred recommendation filter. How to influence each layer, with dated 2026 evidence.
A dated, evidence-grounded breakdown of what actually drives AI-engine citations per engine — and the popular GEO tactics the data refutes. Reviewed quarterly.
How ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, Claude and Grok decide which brands to mention, cite and recommend — grounded in dated 2026 research, not GEO folklore.
Claude grounds its web answers on Brave Search and rewards deep, research-rich content with named authors. Here's how it picks sources, and how to be one, with dated 2026 evidence.
Gemini grounds on Google's own index — 92% of AI Overview citations (the best-measured proxy) already rank in Google's top 10. It's also the one engine that rewards brand-owned domains. Here's the 2026 playbook, with dated evidence.
Perplexity cites sources on every answer — so the whole game is being in the small set it retrieves and reranks. Here's how it picks sources, and how to be one, with dated 2026 evidence.
