Author: Thaylise Nakamoto
GEO Experiments
We Updated Only the Publication Date on 10 Articles. AI Citations Rose 31.5%
We changed only the publication date on 10 existing articles. Over the next 30 days, AI citations rose 31.5%, while two control articles declined.
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AI Search Studies
We Measured How Stable AI Citations and Brand Mentions Really Are (and Why 10 Prompts Isn’t Enough)
We tracked 252,407 AI search answers across seven engines to measure how stable brand mentions and citations really are, and how prompt count affects Brand Coverage consistency.
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AI Search Experiences
ChatGPT cut Reddit citations by at least 73% in August 2026. Here is what replaced it.
View the interactive version of this study here We measured 16 brand reports across unrelated industries. Reddit citations from ChatGPT fell by at least 73% in mid-August, while ChatGPT’s own citation volume went up 3.5%. The gap was filled by reference sources and official pages, not by other forums. And the most popular explanation, that […]
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AI Search Experiences
From Third to First in AI Citation Rank in 90 Days — and 30% More Inbound Leads
Answer Engine Optimization has a visibility problem that search never had. A ranking could be checked by typing the query. An AI answer is assembled fresh, differs by engine, and is gone the moment it is read. Which prompts is the brand absent from? Who appears instead? And of everything published last quarter, which pages […]
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GEO Experiments
We Added 2026 to 11 Page Titles. Citations Rose 61%, and So Did the Page We Never Touched
Key takeaways Why we tested this The idea came from a pattern in our own data. Most of our highest cited blog posts already carry “2026” in the title tag. Some of them do not carry it in the H1, which is an inconsistency in its own right, but the title tag pattern was hard […]
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