CitePulse Research
Practical, research-backed writing on how AI assistants choose which businesses to cite — and what it takes to be one of them.
Rankings are decoupling from being chosen. Citation share — whether AI engines cite your domain on real buyer questions — is the metric that replaces impressions, clicks and rankings. The evidence (Ahrefs, Pew, Similarweb, arXiv) and a 25-company benchmark with a median AI visibility of 12/100.
Read article →The six technical blockers that keep businesses out of AI answers — robots.txt, JavaScript-only rendering, missing schema, thin claims, no third-party citations, category ambiguity — plus a free step-by-step diagnosis and honest timelines for each fix.
Read article →97% of llms.txt files never get fetched and no study shows a citation effect. What the file is, who reads it, why CitePulse detects it but refuses to score it — and the one case where it helps.
Read article →A simple manual method to check whether AI assistants name your brand today, why one-off checks aren't enough, and how CitePulse.ai turns it into a repeatable measurement.
Read article →A repeatable, multi-engine method: define real buyer questions, run them on every engine, and repeat on a cadence with frozen prompts so you get a trend, not a screenshot.
Read article →What GEO is, how it differs from SEO and AEO, the metrics that matter, and how to track whether AI cites and recommends your brand across ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini and Claude.
Read article →An honest, sourced side-by-side of CitePulse, Otterly.AI, Profound, Peec AI and Knowatoa — free access, AI engines covered, pricing and agency white-label. Including where each competitor beats us.
Read article →Search is moving from blue links to direct answers. We explain what AEO is, why most companies are now invisible to ChatGPT, Perplexity and Gemini, and the real data behind the shift.
Read article →A concrete checklist for making your site readable and citable by AI crawlers — GPTBot, PerplexityBot, Google-Extended — mapped to exactly what a CitePulse audit verifies.
Read article →Citation frequency, source presence, and competitor displacement — the factors that determine whether an AI assistant names your company, and how CitePulse measures each one.
Read article →Run a free audit across Perplexity, Gemini and GPT-4o in about 30 seconds.
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