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AEO/GEO practice: managing brand citation, mention and inclusion inside AI-generated answers as a discovery surface distinct from ranked search results.
A 15-tool comparison of LLM visibility trackers puts numbers on two decisions: which metric to trust, and when tracking your own answers beats renting a dashboard.
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Fractl's generative engine optimization research spans 8,090 keywords, 25 verticals and 22,410 domains. The claim underneath it: rank position is not a proxy for whether a model cites you.
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A developer's 34-day Caddy log audit found 40.3 assistant fetches a day against Googlebot's 35.8. None of that traffic appears in Search Console.
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Conductor's benchmark across 13,770 domains puts AI referral traffic at 1.08% of visits, growing about 1% a month. The measurement problem is larger than the channel.
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