... sources, and methods for generating answers. As a result, the same question can produce different brand recommendations depending on where someone asks it. For example, a B2B software company might appear among the top recommendations in ChatGPT while a competitor receives more mentions

... brand can appear frequently in AI-generated answers, but the context of those mentions matters. For example, ChatGPT might recommend a company as the best fit for small businesses, mention

... plan, and shows how many visitors actually come from each AI assistant. It also works over MCP, so you can drive it from Claude or Cursor. I'd really value your take: 1. Do you check whether AI assistants mention your product? How? 2. Which assistant matters most for your traffic right now? 3. What would make you trust an automated tool to touch your site? I'll reply to every comment ...

... been doing link building and mention outreach with a small SEO agency since August. I expected the hard part to be finding pages and getting anyone to answer. It wasn't. site owners reply. A lot of them. faster than a small team can keep up with. The other surprise was price. sites with similar metrics that aren't on any marketplace often ask $30-50 for a mention

... ChatGPT, Perplexity, or Gemini recommends you when someone asks for the best tools in your category. Build a list of 30 50 prompts your potential customers might actually use. For example: What's the best [category] tool for startups? [Competitor A] vs

... distinctions we're exploring with ReSO AI as we help teams understand their visibility across AI-generated answers. If you were measuring your brand's AI visibility, would you care more about how often you're mentioned or how often you're actually recommended? Comment from Mohit Gupta(@mohit_gupta138): @ksanyokm  Agreed. Hence the average position tracking is important. Top 3 is where you would want to be. Comment from Mohit Gupta(@mohit_gupta138): @lancelot_d_souza1 ... ... fine point Lancelot. So how we have approached this is, we have tightened the framing/intent of the prompt so that the mentions

... getting placed in listicles, roundups and comparison pages. finding the pages, digging up who maintains each one, personalized pitches, follow ups, tracking who answered and who actually placed you. asking because clients started raising the "why doesnt ChatGPT mention us" question, and the answer mostly runs through exactly these pages. AI answers cite listicles and roundups far more than homepages. so whats your stack? one tool that covers the whole flow, a mix of prospecting and email tools ... ... great flip. in dev niches the gatekeeper is a maintainer or a build check, so prospecting and follow ups mostly vanish. ive been through the MCP directory circuit and it matched your experience exactly. the verification gap you mention

... brands can offer similar products, target the same audience, and have equally strong websites, yet one consistently appears in AI-generated recommendations while the other barely gets mentioned. We've been exploring how factors beyond a brand's own website, including third-party mentions

... your category. If you're not in the answer the reason is likely not your product. Surfer put out a study in September. They went through 289,105 pages that AI answers cite. The more of those pages mention a brand the higher it sits in the answer. ChatGPT showed this the strongest. And the mentions

... Every SEO/marketing tool I look at lately has bolted on some version of "AI visibility tracking" How often your brand gets mentioned in ChatGPT, Perplexity, Google AI Overviews, etc. The pitch is basically: rankings are dying, AI mentions

... Apple's own support pages. Apple In-App Purchase: 26%, or 15% if you're in the Small Business Program, the Mini Apps or Video Partner Programs, or on an auto-renewable subscription after the subscriber's first year. Alternative payment processing inside your app: 20%, or 10% for those same groups. Out-of-app offers with an actionable link: a 15% store services commission, or 10% for those groups, on anything bought within 7 days of the tap. Apps ... ... distributed outside the App Store entirely - an alternative

... have been testing how different products show up in AI answers and noticed that getting mentioned doesn't always mean much. A product might be listed alongside several competitors

... week we ran our own brand through it and caught something uncomfortable. Search "brandscope ai": Google shows us #1 organic. But Google's AI Overview describes a different company with a similar name ( wowai.ch ). And there's a direct competitor using nearly our exact domain ( brandscopeai.com ). Three companies, two named BrandScope, all competing for one AI identity. This isn't an edge case name collisions are the #1 thing we see when brands run their first scan. Powsight gets confused ... ... with PowerSight. A brand with a common name finds AI quoting the other company's site. "Mentioned

... progress tracking as bulk PDF uploads. Drag and drop to add content On your main library page, you can drop PDFs, images, text files, Markdown files, or a Markdown zip to create a card or start an import. Unlinked mentions On a card's Connections tab, Recall now suggests other cards that mention

... share what's in it. The part I'm most excited about is the AI Visibility feature. Since search is shifting toward AI answer engines rather than just Google, I built a 6-tab dashboard (Summary, Questions, AI Responses, Competitors, Recommendations, History) that tracks how often a brand gets mentioned

... questions for people who are here more than I am. Do you rely on the notification feed at all, or have you built some habit around it? And is there a setting I've missed that makes mentions more reliable? Genuinely possible the answer is that I've had something switched off this whole time. Comment from Alper Tayfur(@alpertayfurr): @satchmo_saunders  That s exactly the gap. I d skip the notification feed entirely and poll the actual threads/comments ... ... follow a pattern I can filter for. On this thread I got a notification that you upvoted, but nothing when you commented. The post shows three upvotes and I've had two notifications for them. So it isn't mentions

... keep digging into what actually gets a product mentioned in ChatGPT or Perplexity answers, and the data keeps pointing somewhere that makes me question the whole "GEO/AEO" hype. Ahrefs looked at 75k brands and found branded mentions

... almost 8% higher than last year. But the game has changed. What's Different in 2026 1. Backlinks are a gate, not a dial. A Semrush study of 1,000 domains found that authority score correlated with AI mentions at Pearson 0.65. Raw backlink volume correlated much more weakly. Low-authority domains collect a handful of citations; top-tier domains collect dozens. The relationship is threshold-shaped. 2. The split between SEO and GEO is real. Backlinks influence AI visibility ... ... have improved their rankings. In AI search, nofollow links are often just as important as dofollow links. Image backlinks deserve more attention. Perplexity and ChatGPT Search favor them, and Gemini also shows a noticeable correlation. Listicle placements and brand mentions

... links matter less, while studies measuring AI Overviews or Perplexity find they still matter. The shift in 2026: Backlinks are a gate, not a dial. A Semrush study of 1,000 domains found that authority score correlated with AI mentions at Pearson 0.65. Raw backlink volume correlated much more weakly. The relationship is threshold-shaped. Low-authority domains collect a handful of citations; top-tier domains collect dozens. Brand mentions

... Google still largely shows traditional results. AI search is mostly eating informational traffic, not purchase-intent traffic. Second, the traffic that AI does send is higher quality. ChatGPT-referred visitors spend an average of 15 minutes on a website versus Google-referred visitors at 8 minutes. Sessions from AI referrals grew 527% year over year in the first five months of 2025. Third, only 16% of brands are systematically tracking their performance in AI search. That means 84% of your ... ... competitors

... short call to action at the end, inviting people to join the waitlist. If a LinkedIn post isn't related to the tool, I'll sometimes leave a funny comment underneath it and add a P.S. mentioning my tool. I want to dedicate at least one LinkedIn post per week specifically to the product I'm building. I'd love to hear what has worked for you. Comment from Nika(@busmark_w_nika): @richatsealedvault  Thank you! More people mentioned

... search, backlinks influence visibility differently. They act on the retrieval layer the live search index that grounds AI answers rather than the model's frozen training weights . A domain's Authority Score correlated with AI mentions at Pearson 0.65, according to a Semrush study of 1,000 domains tracked across five AI surfaces . Raw backlink volume correlated far more weakly. Two insights from the data: Backlinks are a gate, not a dial. The relationship between authority and AI visibility ... ... threshold-shaped. Low-authority domains collect a handful of AI mentions

... usually just making the founder money. The best products solve an actual point of friction in the user's daily workflow. Comment from Anna Ludwinowski(@anna_ludwinowski): @bickov  Very cool product! While I like the tagline you mention (it is snappy), something that hits harder at the problem would be something like: "You point at one element. The agent edits a different one. You redo the work - every time, until you give up in frustration ... ... exactly the right swap! It's the same trap in enterprise IT and in most launches here, just dressed differently (feature list vs

... brought us: 600+ new user registrations 4,400+ unique website visits And then the 20 days after the launch brought even more: 1,925 total new registrations 15,800 website visits 70,100 unique visits across own.page pages 5 mentions in large newsletters For some products, maybe these numbers are normal. For me, they felt huge. Because behind every registration, there is a real person, someone who created a page, someone who gave the product a chance, someone who maybe ... ... own.page for the first time because of that launch. And here is something unexpected. Product Hunt didn t just give us one launch day. It gave us momentum. People discovered the product, shared it, mentioned

... Cursor fast app/project editing 2. Factory agent-style coding workflows 3. Codex code changes and repo tasks 4. Claude long-context planning and review 5. ChatGPT product planning, launch work, debugging, and second opinions Honorable mentions: VS