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Practical writing on Generative Engine Optimization: how AI visibility is measured across ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, and Grok, how citations are actually earned, and what the technical setup — robots.txt, llms.txt, structured data — really changes. Honest comparisons of the tools, including ours, and the reasoning behind every score we publish.
Measurement & scoring
How AI visibility is scored and sampled — and why tools disagree.
21 posts
Earning AI citations
What actually earns mentions and citations, engine by engine.
8 posts
Technical GEO
Crawler access, robots.txt, llms.txt — the setup engines need to read you.
6 posts
· 23 min read
How AI Engines Chunk Your Page for Passage Retrieval
AI engines cite passages, not pages. How chunking and passage-level retrieval decide which sections get quoted — and how to fix the ones that don't.
- generative-engine-optimization
- content-shape
- ai-citations
- passage-retrieval
- b2b-saas
· 17 min read
Original Research Wins AI Citations. Opinion Posts Don't
Only 8 of 301 AI-cited pages were original research, yet they took 8.3% of citations. How small teams build data assets that earn AI citations cheaply.
- generative-engine-optimization
- ai-citations
- original-research
- content-shape
- measurement
· 13 min read
How Long Does It Take to Get Cited by ChatGPT?
Google AI Mode cited 36% of new pages within 24 hours. ChatGPT needed 30 days to reach 42%. Here is what the crawl-to-citation timeline really looks like.
- generative-engine-optimization
- ai-citations
- measurement
- chatgpt
- ai-visibility
· 18 min read
The 2026 B2B SaaS AI Visibility Benchmark, Explained
The 2026 B2B SaaS AI visibility benchmark averages 56.9/100 — but the median is 63.5. How to read your score against the category and which levers move it.
- ai-visibility
- generative-engine-optimization
- b2b-saas
- benchmarks
- measurement
· 18 min read
How Often Does ChatGPT Search the Web? About a Third
ChatGPT searched the web on 34.5% of queries in Feb 2026. How often does ChatGPT search the web for your prompts, and which half of AI visibility to fix.
- generative-engine-optimization
- ai-visibility
- measurement
- chatgpt
- retrieval
· 20 min read
Does Wikidata Entity Data Drive AI Search Visibility?
Wikipedia is 8.9% of ChatGPT's citations and 0.6% of AI Overviews'. What sameAs, Wikidata and entity data really do for AI search visibility.
- entity seo
- wikidata
- technical geo
- ai visibility
- structured data
· 18 min read
ChatGPT Shopping Visibility Starts in Your Product Feed
83% of ChatGPT Shopping carousel products come from Google's top-40 organic results. Here's what that means for ChatGPT Shopping visibility.
- ai-commerce
- chatgpt-shopping
- product-feeds
- ecommerce
- generative-engine-optimization
· 18 min read
Search Console Generative AI Report: What It Leaves Out
Google's Search Console generative AI report gives real impression data — but no clicks, no prompts, no engines beyond Google. Here's how to read it.
- measurement
- ai-visibility
- search-console
- ai-overviews
- generative-engine-optimization
· 17 min read
What Claude Cites: How Claude Chooses Its Sources
Claude searches on just 36.6% of prompts and pulls from Brave's index, not Google's. Here's how Claude chooses its sources and what fixes a Claude gap.
- generative-engine-optimization
- ai-visibility
- claude
- engine-mechanics
- technical-geo
· 13 min read
Common-Word Brand Names and AI Mention False Positives
Substring matching inflates AI mention rates for brands like Pulse or Scout. Audit false positives with a precision check and get a score you can trust.
- ai-visibility
- measurement
- entity-disambiguation
- brand-mentions
- generative-engine-optimization
· 22 min read
Do Backlinks Matter for AI Citations? The 2026 Data
Do backlinks matter for AI citations? The 2026 correlation data says yes — as a threshold, not a driver. Here's what outranks them and where to spend.
- generative-engine-optimization
- ai-citations
- backlinks
- digital-pr
- measurement
· 19 min read
AI Citation Sources: The 68% Concentration Problem
Do 15 domains really supply 68% of AI answers? We audit the AI citation sources data engine by engine — and show which share you can actually earn.
- generative-engine-optimization
- ai-citations
- digital-pr
- citation-sources
- ai-visibility
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