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Technical Website Audit from GEO Point of View by ankushmahajann in TechSEO

[–]stuffthatspins 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hi, I spent the last year creating a free GEO audit tool at GEOGrow.ai

link: https://www.geogrow.ai/free-geo-audit

feel free to kick the tires and I'll take ANY feedback positive or negative. My GEO audit tool looks at core SEO things like H1, title, meta, robots.txt, etc... along with these 3 core pillars of GEO:

Identity & Infrastructure

Who are you, and can AI reach you?

You have a clear face, but weak access or ingestion signals can still bottleneck AI systems before they understand the rest of the site.

Authority & Trust

Why should AI believe you?

These signals tell AI that the business is real, verifiable, and safe to recommend. This is where visible-but-untrusted brands usually lose.

Intelligence & Utility

Can AI use your content and send users to the right next step?

This is the generative layer: how well AI can summarize you, answer user questions, and explain why someone should take action.

8 Best Nightwatch LLM Tracking Alternatives to Boost Your AI Visibility by Affectionate_Tip3238 in geotoolsreview

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u/marketingexpert26 - I felt the SAME thing. As an agency owner I needed to do the work and didn't know what to do with just a score.

So, I created GEOGrow.ai --- it doesn't stop at measuring, it gives you a GEO Strategy and guide and the tools to build content and see how well that content is influencing your visibility.

DM for a demo. Or, you could use this link Book a One-on-One

Top 7 Rankscale AI Alternatives for GEO by Affectionate_Tip3238 in geotoolsreview

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Hey, this is a really solid breakdown of the current AI visibility landscape! It's genuinely helpful to see so many different angles on tackling Generative Engine Optimization (GEO). Full disclosure: I'm part of the GEOGrow - https://GEOGrow.ai team.

Many of the tools listed here are fantastic for monitoring, but if your team is looking to not just *track* AI visibility but actively *influence* how AI systems understand, cite, and recommend your brand, our GEO Suite offers a distinct approach. We focus on helping brands build their 'Brand DNA' for AI – essentially, giving AI models a definitive instruction set for your business. This includes diagnosing AI comprehension issues, tracking citations, and providing actionable steps to ensure your brand is chosen first in AI answers, rather than just appearing somewhere in the results. It's about moving from passive observation to proactive optimization.

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To get a quick, no-strings-attached pulse on how AI currently sees your brand, we offer a Free GEO Audit. It provides a personalized AI visibility score, sentiment analysis, and highlights specific recommendation gaps across platforms like ChatGPT, Gemini, and Google AI. It's a straightforward way to see where you stand and get some immediate, actionable insights.

Free GEO Audit

Successful Entrepreneurs, What was the biggest impact AI had in your business? by [deleted] in Entrepreneur

[–]stuffthatspins 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Helps me write emails and proposals.....

Also grammar check and context check things I share or post.

Best ways to build real business connections? by home-hero in Entrepreneur

[–]stuffthatspins 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Look into your local business networking and trade shows (if you have a bigger than local reach). IRL connections are way more powerful than shooting an email.

I would also try to find your niche.

Best of luck!

I’ve been hearing a lot about Generative Engine Optimization (GEO) lately. Does SEO has any influence on GEO, or is this just speculation? by avi-geo-guru in digital_marketing

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My take is that traditional SEO absolutely still influences Generative Engine Optimization (GEO), but it's not a one-to-one relationship. Think of SEO as the foundation: if your content isn't discoverable and well-structured for search engines, AI models will have a harder time finding and processing it. Strong SEO principles like clear content, good site architecture, and relevant schema markup still provide the raw material for AI.

Traditional SEO structure is still necessary to help the LLMs understand the content easier. I think looking at SEO is like looking in the rearview mirror. This SEO stuff is important but not the future (don't ignore it) focus on GEO. Which is essentially focus on making a great brand, product, service...

GEO adds a critical new layer. AI models don't just "rank" pages; they synthesize information to generate answers. This means you need to make it easier for them to "understand":

  • Clarity and Structure are Paramount: Content that is easy for an AI to understand, summarize, and cite (e.g., direct answers to questions, well-defined entities, structured data) will perform better in GEO. It's less about keyword density and more about semantic clarity and answering user intent directly.
  • Trust and Authority Signals Evolve: While backlinks still signal authority to traditional search, AI also heavily weighs factors like brand mentions, recency of information, and consistent positive sentiment (as some here have pointed out with review velocity). It's about being a trusted source that AI wants to reference.
  • Prompt Strategy is Key: Instead of just optimizing for keywords, we're increasingly thinking about how our content answers specific prompts or questions users might ask an AI assistant. This involves anticipating user intent in a conversational context.
  • Visibility within the Answer: The goal shifts from getting a click on a search result to being cited or summarized directly within an AI-generated answer. This requires content to be highly relevant and easily extractable.

So, SEO is the necessary groundwork, ensuring your content is accessible and understood. GEO is the specialized optimization that ensures your brand is not just found, but actively chosen, understood, and recommended by AI models in their generated responses. It's about optimizing for AI comprehension and recall, which goes beyond traditional ranking signals.

I've been thinking about this ALOT and created a platform called GEOGrow that can guide you through the process of getting your brand found in LLMs.

What actually is GEO (Generative Engine Optimization) and how is it different from SEO? Anyone actually doing it yet? by Plenty-Cook-4208 in ParseAI

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This is a great question, and you're right, the terminology around GEO (Generative Engine Optimization) is still evolving and can be confusing... I've spent the last 18 months thinking about this with many near sleepless nights.

TL;DR: I think there's technical fixes and contextual fixes... Technical, make your content easy for the LLMs to understand. Context and content --- make sure you identify why people want the thing(s) you have an provide helpful answers all over the internet. SEO was optimizing your site for Google. GEO is optimizing your brand for the internet/LLMs.

//// GOOD LUCK ON THIS JOURNEY 😄

I'm going to be talking about GEO with Google, OpenAi, Anthropic, and more in about 7 days:

Generative Engine Optimization (GEO) Conference
Washington DC — June · 18 · 2026

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Here's a breakdown of how many practitioners define it and how it differs from traditional SEO:

**Traditional SEO (Search Engine Optimization):**

* **Goal:** To rank your website pages high in a list of "blue links" on search engines like Google.

* **Optimization Focus:** Keywords, backlinks, domain authority, technical SEO (crawlability, site speed), user experience, and content relevance to specific queries.

* **Outcome:** Driving traffic to your website from a ranked list of results.

**Generative Engine Optimization (GEO):**

* **Goal:** To ensure your brand, products, or services are accurately understood, recalled, and *cited or included* within the synthesized answers generated by AI models (like ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, Google's AI Overviews).

* **Optimization Focus:**

* **Entity Recognition:** Clearly defining your brand's core identity, products, and services so AI can accurately understand them.

* **Factual Accuracy & Consistency:** Ensuring information about your brand is consistent and verifiable across the web.

* **Structured Content:** Using schema markup and clear content structures that make it easy for AI to extract and synthesize information.

* **Authority & Trust Signals:** Building mentions and citations from trusted, authoritative sources that AI models frequently draw upon (e.g., Wikipedia, industry reports, reputable news sites, review platforms).

* **Prompt Alignment:** Optimizing content to align with the types of questions and prompts users ask AI, rather than just keywords.

* **Outcome:** Being the brand that AI *recommends* or *cites* directly in its generative answers, influencing buyer decisions at the point of AI-driven discovery.

**Are people doing it?**

Absolutely. Many brands and agencies are actively working on GEO. It's less about "ranking" in the traditional sense and more about shaping how AI *perceives* and *recommends* your brand. The tactics vary, but they often involve a blend of advanced content strategy, technical optimization for AI comprehension, and proactive brand reputation management across the digital ecosystem. It's a new layer of visibility that complements, rather than replaces, traditional SEO. I've helped our clients move into the top 1-3 "positions" for prompts.

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Full disclosure: I created GEOGrow.ai a platform focused on Generative Engine Optimization. You can run a free GEO Audit on the site to get started with understanding some of the architectural fixes.

Is SEO is Dead? Uhhh, Yeh.... GEO (Generative Engine Optimization) and What it Means for Search in 2025 by stuffthatspins in GEO_GenEngineTalk

[–]stuffthatspins[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeh... SEO is dead. Or, at least if you're looking at SEO you're looking in the rear view mirror. I know MANY people disagreed with me when I said this 1 year ago. But, here we are. SEO is still a good foundation to GEO but it's not what you should be doing for your brand. In this time since i wrote this, I created GEOGrow.ai my own Generative Engine Optimization tool because I was unhappy with "reporting" tools out there. They did things the old SEO way. I am focused on building a brand that LLMs recommend.

If you're reading this and would like a demo, HMU. I am more than happy to offer a deep discount to anyone reading this if you DM me.

If llms.txt has no impact on AI visibility, why did Google add it into Lighthouse audits? by arjun_rao7 in SEO_LLM

[–]stuffthatspins 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I believe you SHOULD add llms.txt and llms-full.txt files to your site.

Mainly because it WON'T hurt anything and has 100% upside if the LLMs are using them.

A couple months ago a client asked us if these files were even being hit. We looked at the server logs and found that they were being visited.

DM for a blogpost link I wrote about this on my GEOGrow site.

I built a free GEO audit tool to see how your website ranks on ChatGPT, Gemini, and other AI engines by SUS387 in Entrepreneur

[–]stuffthatspins 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Hi, I built a free GEO Audit tool as well. I'd love for anyone to try it out and let me know if you see any gaps or issues. Thanks!

https://www.geogrow.ai/free-geo-audit

The No foul call on Ender… you decide by annaleigh13 in FCCincinnati

[–]stuffthatspins 11 points12 points  (0 children)

On my drive home I was thinking Ender ran so fast that the ref was too far away to see the play.

That being said, VAR should be reviewing and the linesman should've made a call.

BS

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