Blog: AI search
News, research and practical advice on AI search and SEO.
AI search
Does a high Google ranking mean AI will recommend you?
Our study of 160 AI answers: search traffic explains only about a third of who gets recommended. Track mention share by buying mode alongside rankings.
AI search
Does a bigger marketing budget buy visibility in AI answers?
We tracked 68 cybersecurity vendors and 82,814 AI citations. Marketing budget barely predicts who AI cites; search footprint does, at a correlation of 0.90.
AI search
The pages AI actually cites (and the ones it ignores)
We traced every link in 160 AI answers. Four page types won the citations, while llms.txt and schema markup didn't separate leaders from laggards.