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How ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity and Google AI Overviews pick brands and sources, and what you can do about it.
AI Visibility for Local Businesses: Get Recommended by ChatGPT
How local businesses get recommended by ChatGPT and AI Overviews: what assistants read, what to fix in your Business Profile and reviews, how to track it.
Alexandre Dissi
· 7 min read
Do Backlinks Matter for AI Search? Brand Mentions vs Links
Do backlinks matter for AI search? Links still help assistants find your pages, but brand mentions and how the web describes you shape the answer.
Alexandre Dissi
· 8 min read
Claude SEO: How Claude Finds and Cites Sources
Claude SEO: how Claude searches the web and cites sources, what ClaudeBot, Claude-SearchBot and Claude-User do, and how to get cited by Claude.
Alexandre Dissi
· 7 min read
ChatGPT Says Wrong Things About Your Brand? How to Fix It
ChatGPT has wrong information about your company? Find the sources behind the error, fix them, report it through official channels and track the change.
Alexandre Dissi
· 7 min read
Gemini SEO: How to Get Your Brand Recommended by Gemini
Gemini SEO explained: how Gemini grounds answers in Google Search, what Google documents, what to change on your site and how to measure your visibility.
Alexandre Dissi
· 8 min read
GEO for SaaS: How B2B Software Gets Recommended by AI
GEO for SaaS: the buyer prompts behind AI shortlists, the pages and reviews that feed them, and how to measure share of voice against competitors.
Alexandre Dissi
· 7 min read
How to Measure GEO ROI: KPIs for AI Visibility
How to measure GEO ROI: the AI visibility KPIs that matter, from share of voice and cited domains to AI referral traffic, plus a reporting template.
Alexandre Dissi
· 7 min read
How to Get Cited in Google AI Overviews
How to get cited in AI Overviews: what Google says decides the links, a practical AI Overviews SEO checklist, and how to track which sources get cited.
Alexandre Dissi
· 7 min read
AI Crawlers and robots.txt: GPTBot, ClaudeBot, PerplexityBot
Which AI bots train models and which power AI search? Allow or block GPTBot, OAI-SearchBot, ClaudeBot, PerplexityBot and Google-Extended safely.
Alexandre Dissi
· 8 min read
AI Visibility Audit: A Step-by-Step Template
Run an AI visibility audit in an afternoon: pick buyer prompts, test 7 AI assistants, log mentions, positions and cited sources, then prioritize fixes.
Alexandre Dissi
· 7 min read
Answer Engine Optimization (AEO): A Practical Guide
What answer engine optimization (AEO) means, how it differs from GEO and SEO, what Google says about it, and a practical AEO checklist for 2026.
Alexandre Dissi
· 8 min read
Best AI Visibility Tools (2026): GEO Trackers Compared
Compare the best AI visibility tools for tracking your brand in ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity and AI Overviews: engines covered, data method, pricing.
Alexandre Dissi
· 8 min read
Google AI Mode SEO: How to Show Up in AI Mode Answers
Google AI Mode SEO: how AI Mode picks the links it shows, how it differs from AI Overviews, what Search Console reports and what to change on your site.
Alexandre Dissi
· 8 min read
How to Rank in ChatGPT: Get Your Brand Recommended
How to rank in ChatGPT: allow OAI-SearchBot, earn third-party mentions, publish honest comparisons and measure whether ChatGPT names your brand.
Alexandre Dissi
· 7 min read
How to Rank in Perplexity: Get Cited in Perplexity Answers
How Perplexity picks the sources it cites, how to let PerplexityBot in, and what makes a page citable. Plus how to check if you're cited today.
Alexandre Dissi
· 7 min read
llms.txt: What It Is, Does It Work, and Should You Add One?
llms.txt explained: what the proposal says, what Google says about it in 2026, where it can still help AI agents, and a template to write your own.
Alexandre Dissi
· 7 min read
Schema Markup for AI Search: What Helps and What's a Myth
Does schema markup for AI search get you cited by ChatGPT or AI Overviews? What Google says, what studies found, and the schema types worth adding.
Alexandre Dissi
· 7 min read
Track ChatGPT Traffic in GA4: AI Referrals Step by Step
Track ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini and Claude traffic in GA4: the new AI Assistant channel, a custom regex fallback, and why the numbers are a floor.
Alexandre Dissi
· 7 min read
Why I Built Citegram: Measuring What AI Recommends
Alexandre Dissi, founder of Citegram, on why AI answers became the new shortlist, why nobody could measure them, and how Citegram does it.
Alexandre Dissi
· 5 min read
Query Fan-Out: The Hidden Searches Behind AI Answers
What is query fan-out? Learn how ChatGPT and other assistants split one prompt into several web searches, and use fan-out queries to find content gaps.
Alexandre Dissi
· 5 min read
Google AI Overviews Traffic: How to Measure and Adapt
Is Google AI Overviews traffic loss hitting your site? Learn which queries are most affected, how to measure the impact, and how to get cited instead.
Alexandre Dissi
· 6 min read
How to Get Cited by AI: Review Sites, Reddit and Comparisons
Learn how to get cited by AI assistants like ChatGPT by earning honest visibility on review sites, Reddit and comparison pages, with no gaming required.
Alexandre Dissi
· 7 min read
Prompts to Track for AI Visibility: How to Choose Them
Not sure which prompts to track for AI visibility? Build a prompt set from real buyer questions, cover the funnel, and get data you can act on.
Alexandre Dissi
· 6 min read
Track Brand Mentions in AI: ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity
Learn how to track brand mentions in AI assistants like ChatGPT, Gemini and Perplexity, compare share of voice, and spot which sources drive answers.
Alexandre Dissi
· 7 min read
SEO vs GEO: Key Differences and How to Adapt Your Strategy
SEO vs GEO explained: what stays the same, what changes when AI assistants answer instead of listing links, and a 6-step plan to adapt your strategy.
Alexandre Dissi
· 6 min read
How AI Chooses Sources: What Gets Your Pages Cited
How AI chooses sources to cite in ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini and AI Overviews, plus a checklist to make your pages easier to find, read and cite.
Alexandre Dissi
· 6 min read
AI Share of Voice: How to Measure It and What's a Good Score
AI share of voice shows how often ChatGPT, Gemini and Perplexity name your brand vs competitors. Learn to calculate it and judge if your score is good.
Alexandre Dissi
· 6 min read
How to Check if ChatGPT Recommends Your Brand (6 Steps)
Check if ChatGPT recommends your brand with a repeatable 6-step test: what to ask, what to record, and how to read its citations and web searches.
Alexandre Dissi
· 6 min read
What Is Generative Engine Optimization? A GEO Starter Guide
Generative engine optimization (GEO) explained: what it is, how AI assistants build answers, and a 5-step process to get your brand recommended.
Alexandre Dissi
· 7 min read