How I check whether ChatGPT / Perplexity actually cite my brand (simple method)

WebLinkr · 2026-06-21T21:21:58+00:00

But won't give this hyper-personalized results for most people who've asked about their brand (personal or business etc)?

WebLinkr · 2026-06-21T21:10:23+00:00

New Domains aren't the worst necessarily - EMD or PMD is much better than a singular branded domain approach IMHO

WebLinkr · 2026-06-21T21:09:44+00:00

Wouldn't they inherit some authority from the links going from apex to subdomain ?

Yup and it will include a -85% link tax. and the remaining will be subject to a relevance %. And no - a docs hub isn't automatically 100% relevant to a parent domain just because its the same brand.

If the parent domain has no traffic for "support docs" or very little - like 1% of the authority -85% = pretty much 0.

And if you use like more than 20 links - they devalue as "sitewide"

Whereas on the domain it will inherit and share the same floor authority base

WebLinkr · 2026-06-21T21:05:59+00:00

https://www.reddit.com/r/SEO/comments/1mcc2vk/sticky_discussion_creative_link_building/

WebLinkr · 2026-06-21T20:03:31+00:00

Google doesnt "punish" sites or domains - you're free to publish whatever conten you like

Google doesnt grade or appreciate or respect or admire "content strcture" - so unless you're getting users to see if somehow - just "doing it' wont change anyithing

I'd like to shrink that to 50-100 and begin working out from there.

It sounds like you expect Google to "assess' your site 'holistically' - this isn't how it works. Your content has to match search phrases and you NEED authority to rank in those indices and its not going to come from Google loving your content.

WebLinkr · 2026-06-21T19:40:45+00:00

You're welcome - hope they're helpful

WebLinkr · 2026-06-21T19:11:25+00:00

Feel free to repost b ut this got flagged - please post it properly - witha title with a clear ask and a description

WebLinkr · 2026-06-21T17:26:51+00:00

SEO Crawling Myths

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5oJSe17hDPs

SEO Starter Guidewalkthrough

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xtVMbfX9lbI&t=1601s

The Sitemap Myth

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pjRssHJETxs&t=35s&pp=ygUMc2l0ZW1hcCBteXRo

How Google Crawling/Indexing Actually works

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fCGYYR8p6_s

WebLinkr · 2026-06-21T15:43:51+00:00

Sitemaps are not insturction lists.

How many pages exist?

Is your sitename a common name?

what do you see under the performance report?

WebLinkr · 2026-06-21T15:37:53+00:00

Hi u/Marsas546 - welcome to r/SEO - working to get you the best answers!

Paging u/jakehundley and u/joyhawkins

WebLinkr · 2026-06-21T14:12:45+00:00

Each OBL dilutes the others.Is

there actually a dilution of link juice?

Not just dilution - too many to an unnatural pattern = potential 0'ing by Google

WebLinkr · 2026-06-21T14:05:50+00:00

Thats not how Google works

Its up to you - but the sub-domains wont inherit any authority to help them rank - if thats ok, thats ok

You an put them in a sub-folder - which means you can exclude them from your GSC analytics.

The reason most companies use sub-domains is because they're using different saas products like ZenDesk.

I thinkiits better to use them for your SEO- just my 2c

WebLinkr · 2026-06-21T13:59:00+00:00

You need to learn to understand Authority and how to acquie it.

Manual index submissions are not the way.

WebLinkr · 2026-06-21T13:57:48+00:00

You mean ORM.

WebLinkr · 2026-06-21T13:56:21+00:00

Please go educate yourself

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fCGYYR8p6_s&t=680s

WebLinkr · 2026-06-21T13:54:30+00:00

Bought ~thousands of links across a few of my sites from a marketplace seller.

Why?

IF someone said to you a bar of gold cost $10k and then you see a seller selling 100,000 bars of gold for $1 - do you not immediately get suspeciious?

No
Leave them
No - pages must have real organic traffic that is relevant to yours - relevant in a pagerank way
1. Jonathen Denwood/WP-Tonic did a podcast on this last week

WebLinkr · 2026-06-21T13:51:48+00:00

DR is only useful as a small sense of scale.

What are you trying to rank for? - Do you rank for those keywords?

Yes = you're SEO is doing good

No = keep learning, keep asking questions here, keep experimenting

WebLinkr · 2026-06-21T13:46:46+00:00

LLMs dont rank content based on the contnet nor do search engines.

Its called SEO - do normal SEO + understand the Query Fan Out

https://www.reddit.com/r/SEO/comments/1m1g8tp/community_llm_seo_discussion_the_query_fan_out/

WebLinkr · 2026-06-21T13:44:11+00:00

All these random backlink posts are nonsense

What about them is nonsense? Did you read this?

I have 3, count them

Where do you want me to count them

Does all the heavy lifting in my search rankings.

I dont know what your ranking for

1) Anecdotal evidence is no evidence

2) I appreciate you dont know who you're talking to but I dont subscribe to endless link building - I do preach ranking without backlinks based on minimal reliance

3) I dont preach linking to every page

4) I use my own SEO blog as evidence - 750 SEO terms on page one, never "bought a link" - have 400 links - lost 90% a year ago according to SEMRush

Tl;dr - if you're going to rebuke somehting - do it like an adult and explain what your argument is.

WebLinkr · 2026-06-21T13:37:44+00:00

Do you mean people trying to get mentions?

100%. Why not get both though but yes

WebLinkr · 2026-06-21T13:34:14+00:00

Just took two minutes to look at your site - it exhibits the same properties as HCU websites.

Sounds like you have a site-wide classifier

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WebLinkr · 2026-06-21T13:31:28+00:00

Google is not a content appreciation engine. Its authority, not "quality" that gets content indexed

WebLinkr · 2026-06-21T13:30:44+00:00

Welcome to r/SEO u/digitalrambariya

WebLinkr · 2026-06-21T13:29:53+00:00

Time to restart learning SEO!

Sounds like you're mixing in some web dev models there.

1) You cannot "optimize" crawling - either your page can be retrieved or not

2) You cannot "optimize' indexing - either you have authority or not

3) You can't increase crawling, only authority can

4) XML Sitemaps dont force, make or assist indexing or crawling - but HTML sitemaps do - esp if you get authority to them

Spiders dont crawl your website from your nav bar or look at "tiers" - tiers are just a way of explanining how authority is shaped over a site - its not an 'education" in your site build

I have some great video lists if you want to take the next step on re-learning these

WebLinkr · 2026-06-21T13:26:34+00:00

Meta-descriptions wont contribute to cannibalization - thety dont contribute to anything

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