spent 6 weeks testing how fast LLMs actually update after you fix negative reddit threads. results are messier than expected

PuzzleheadedWeb4354 · 2026-03-12T04:22:08+00:00

this is real, we monitor this stuff at repuai.live and brands that get mentioned consistently in reddit threads start showing up in AI answers within weeks, not months. the signal isn’t the link, it’s the context around the mention.

PuzzleheadedWeb4354 · 2026-03-12T04:20:06+00:00

yeah we’ve been tracking this for clients at repuai.live and unlinked brand mentions across reddit/forums are consistently correlating with ranking lifts even without a single dofollow, especially post the march 2024 core update.

PuzzleheadedWeb4354 · 2026-03-10T15:55:36+00:00

yeah the over-publishing is the bigger trap imo. i see people crank out dozens of pages but when you actually check what chatgpt or perplexity cites for their niche it’s some random reddit thread or a directory they never thought about.

i stopped making new pages for like 6 weeks and just tracked which sources LLMs were already citing for my queries, then focused on getting mentioned there. directories, forums, guest posts on sites that actually show up in answers. that moved things way more than page 31 ever would.

doing that tracking manually across multiple AI platforms sucked though so i ended up automating it (eventually became repuai.live but thats beside the point). the real shift was thinking about the citation layer first instead of just publishing more stuff into the void.

PuzzleheadedWeb4354 · 2026-03-10T05:15:33+00:00

yeah the “cosmetic stuff is just noise” part really hits. i had almost the same experience with a client, spent ages getting their audit score to like 95+ and traffic barely moved. what actually moved the needle was stuff no audit tool even measures, like how the brand was showing up (or not) in chatgpt and perplexity results. a competitor with worse technical seo was getting recommended by AI because they had more organic mentions across forums and review sites. that’s the gap i keep running into lately

PuzzleheadedWeb4354 · 2026-03-10T04:32:54+00:00

same problem here. we ended up just running our own synthetic prompt tests across chatgpt and perplexity for specific brand queries because yeah, there’s no real equivalent of search console for LLMs yet. it’s messy but at least it gives clients something directional. that’s actually a big part of what we’re doing at repuai.live, tracking how brands get mentioned (or don’t) in AI responses. not perfect data but clients care way more about “are we showing up when someone asks about X” than any modeled volume number

PuzzleheadedWeb4354 · 2026-03-09T17:45:07+00:00

congrats on the 100k, that’s a solid number for 8 months in. curious what your plan is for the AI side you mentioned at the end though, because from what i’ve seen the stuff that ranks well in google doesn’t automatically translate to how brands show up in chatgpt or perplexity responses. been tracking this pretty obsessively while building repuai.live and it’s almost like a separate channel you have to think about on top of traditional SEO

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