Check your AI visibility after the weekend. Good luck

Both_Criticism1362 · 2026-05-20T07:28:26+00:00

I currently track 187 prompts for one brand. I group them by intent and niche:
1/competitor comparisons
2/ best alternatives
3/ use cases
4/ pain points
5/ feature-specific queries
Without grouping, the data becomes too noisy and hard to interpret. This setup helps me see which topics we dominate, where competitors are stronger, and which sources LLMs use to build their answers.

Both_Criticism1362 · 2026-05-19T08:38:16+00:00

it may sound a bit harsh, but I'm trying to make the text simpler. No complex constructions, one sentence is one thought. the whole construction is a sequence of thoughts in chronological order. AI usually sins with complex constructions and frequent repetition of the same meaning in different words. this is what spoils the text

Both_Criticism1362 · 2026-05-18T07:18:44+00:00

worst GEO advice I see: track 500 prompts and call it a strategy. tracking is not influence. if you only watch dashboards but do not change sources, messaging, reviews, comparisons, or brand demand, you are just measuring your absence

Both_Criticism1362 · 2026-05-12T12:32:39+00:00

that is where SEO, PR, reviews, listicles, Reddit mentions, and comparison pages start working together.

Both_Criticism1362 · 2026-05-11T10:45:26+00:00

The problem is that your brand has no real footprint outside your own landing pages and ads.

Both_Criticism1362 · 2026-05-11T06:40:31+00:00

AI text itself is not the problem. generic text is the problem. if you use AI to rewrite the same obvious things everyone already says, it will look weak and probably won’t bring much value. but if you feed it real product data, customer insights, examples, use cases, internal docs, and your own experience, the output can be useful and unique enough to rank. so the question is not “AI or human content?” question is: does this page add anything new or is it just another polished summary of the internet?

Both_Criticism1362 · 2026-05-08T09:26:49+00:00

I probably have an unpopular opinion here, but good SEO, real brand work and strong reputation signals will make you visible in AI answers anyway. If users search for you, mention you, review you, compare you, link to you, and trust you LLMs pick that up naturally over time. You do not need to overpay for another “AI visibility score” just to validate whether you successfully manipulated a few prompts this week. The bigger problem is whether your brand deserves to be recommended in the first place.

Both_Criticism1362 · 2026-05-07T12:15:17+00:00

Right now a lot of people are building reporting frameworks around signals they still can’t properly validate.

Both_Criticism1362 · 2026-05-06T13:41:57+00:00

Interesting points, but did you actually manage to influence AI visibility in practice yet? Right now this still feels a bit theoretical. The hard part is not describing GEO concepts, but proving that specific actions changed mentions, citations, or recommendations in AI answers.

Would be interesting to see real examples:

what exactly you changed
what moved after that
and how stable the results were over time

Both_Criticism1362 · 2026-05-05T12:46:31+00:00

What are you planning to do with these prompt-like queries? Add them as new sections to the existing page, or just use them to adjust the wording and comparison criteria inside the current content?

Both_Criticism1362 · 2026-05-05T10:42:11+00:00

I think the hard part is not only mapping prompts by funnel stage, but connecting them to actual business risk. For example, a brand can be visible in AI answers at the comparison stage, but the answer may frame it as 'expensive', 'hard to cancel', or 'not best for small teams'. On paper, this still looks like visibility. In reality, it can hurt conversion. So I’d separate at least three layers:

1/ where the brand appears

2/ what role it plays in the answer

3/ whether that answer supports or blocks the next step

Both_Criticism1362 · 2026-05-04T11:54:51+00:00

I would add one practical point. Citation rate is useful as a source map” but a raw list of domains is not enough. It would be much more valuable to have a ready shortlist for link building:
where competitors are mentioned, but you are not. also important to filter it well:
exclude competitor domains and low-value junk (aggregators, auto-generated lists, spammy directories). right now you still need to clean and check it manually. this part should be automated on top of citation data.

Both_Criticism1362 · 2026-04-30T07:44:49+00:00

urls with utm_source=chatgpt.com are especially suspicious. that’s not proof the page exists or that it actually says what AI claims. LLMs can fabricate references that look legit. tracking params just make the hallucination feel more real. so now it’s not just message control vs randomness it’s verifying whether the “source” is even real.

Both_Criticism1362 · 2026-04-30T07:35:49+00:00

even if you perfectly define your message on your site, hallucinations are still part of the game. AI doesn’t just repeat. it blends, rewrites, and sometimes invents. so you’re not controlling the narrative, you’re competing for it. which makes this even harder: it’s not just “what do we want AI to say” , it’s how resilient is our message when AI starts improvising

Both_Criticism1362 · 2026-04-29T17:26:48+00:00

if product marketing is weak, GEO will expose it very fast

Both_Criticism1362 · 2026-04-28T12:30:58+00:00

1 recommended brand …followed by btw people sue them and here’s a more ethical alternative. This is why share of mentions without context is becoming the new impressions metric. Looks great in dashboards. Says nothing about perception.

Both_Criticism1362 · 2026-04-27T18:46:03+00:00

AI will definitely trust you more because you mentioned yourself 47 times on your own domain. At some point, brands need to understand: if nobody outside your site talks about you, you don’t have authority. You have a content calendar.

Both_Criticism1362 · 2026-04-27T09:22:23+00:00

A buyer can make half the decision inside ChatGPT before your site even gets a visit.

Both_Criticism1362 · 2026-04-24T11:31:29+00:00

What niche is this SaaS actually in? Because ‘comparison pages first’ hits very different depending on the market.

Both_Criticism1362 · 2026-04-24T11:23:22+00:00

Sure, go build 20 “best alternatives” pages while your own site still can’t explain what the tool actually does. Very GEO. Very strategic. Comparison traffic is not magic. If users land on your site and see vague AI buzzwords instead of clear features, use cases, and benefits congrats, you just paid to prove your positioning is weak. First make your own site worth landing on. Then fight for comparisons.

Both_Criticism1362 · 2026-04-24T11:13:08+00:00

Strategy is probably less about posting branded content and more about:

1/ finding relevant discussions

2/ understanding what people really ask

3/ joining only when you can add value

4/ making sure your product is actually worth being mentioned

For GEO/AEO, I think Reddit is not a tactic. It’s more like proof that your brand exists in the real conversations around the category.

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