Citedly Journal
Field notes on getting named by ChatGPT, Gemini and Perplexity — and turning AI answers into customers.
Google AI Mode breaks one question into several hidden searches, retrieves information across them, and synthesises one answer. For your website this changes the unit of competition.
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AI visibility is not one tactic, it is a progression through four stages. A brand rarely jumps from invisible to recommended. It gets stuck at a specific stage, and each stage has a different fix.
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AI crawlers are the bots that read your website for AI products, and they do three different jobs. The distinction matters, because blocking the wrong one removes you from AI answers while blocking the right one only opts you out of model training.
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AI SEO is the work of getting your brand found, cited and recommended inside AI answers. This guide explains how AI search picks its sources and defines 40+ terms, from query fan-out to citation share.
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The best AI SEO tool depends on the job you need done. Compare Profound, OtterlyAI, Peec AI, Semrush, Ahrefs, Surfer, and more — plus how Citedly differs as a done-for-you service.
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Citedly compared public pricing and hidden scope differences across 12 AI SEO, GEO and AEO providers, from $99 to $15,000 per month.
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A practical B2B AI SEO framework for becoming discoverable, comparable and recommendable across leading AI search engines.
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A practical Query Intelligence playbook for helping SaaS products earn mentions, citations and recommendations across leading AI search engines.
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What OpenAI's Labrador retrieval system means for crawling, AI citations and getting your business recommended in ChatGPT.
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Compare 10 leading AI SEO, GEO and AEO agencies by pricing, services, best use cases and their approach to AI visibility.
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A1 Garage Door agreed to sell to KKR for around $2 billion. The real story isn't garage doors — it's a repeatable demand machine built from brand, local SEO, reviews, and disciplined conversion.
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62% of AI citations never name the brand behind the source. Here's why ghost citations happen, how to measure your rate, and how to turn silent citations into named mentions.
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ChatGPT recommended only 1.2% of audited locations vs. 35.9% in Google's map pack. Here's the local AI playbook that actually earns the recommendation.
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A citation credits your page; a mention credits your business. 72% of AI mentions carry no link at all. Here's how the two differ, how you earn each, and which one actually wins customers.
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ChatGPT recommends businesses it's confident about — and that confidence is built off your own site. Here's the 3-stage filter it uses and the five moves that get you named.
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GEO runs from $30/month for DIY tools to $50,000+ for enterprise programs. Here's what each price point actually buys, where businesses overpay, and how to scope a realistic budget.
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Ask three AI engines the same question and you'll get three different shortlists. Here's why each engine reads a different slice of the web — and how to make sure your name is in every pool.
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Being named inside an AI answer is the new word of mouth — and mentions, not backlinks, are what earn it. Here's why it matters and how to get mentioned across ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity and Google.
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ChatGPT crossed 900 million weekly users, AI Overviews appear on a quarter of searches, and 93% of AI sessions end without a click. 50+ verified stats, each attributed to its source.
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A backlink is a vote. An AI citation is a recommendation. Ahrefs studied 75,000 brands and found unlinked mentions predict AI visibility ~3x more strongly than links.
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AI Overviews are built on top of Google's organic results — so ranking is the entry ticket. Here's the 7-step process to get your business named in them.
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AI doesn't quote the best-written page — it quotes the most extractable one. Here are the 8 formatting rules that turn ordinary pages into quotable ones.
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ChatGPT retrieves through Bing, not Google. Here's the crawler to allow, the structure that gets quoted, and the 8-step framework that earns citations in 2026.
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Measure whether AI names you inside answers, not where you rank. The free first-party sources most teams ignore, the four metrics that matter, and when a paid tool is actually worth it.
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AI skipping your site is almost never a quality problem. Here are the 8 blockers that actually cause it — Bing indexing, blocked crawlers, buried answers and more — with the exact fix and test for each.
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AI citations are the mentions and source links AI answers hand out. Here is how they work, why they beat rankings, and the 7-step framework to earn them.
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