Getting Cited by AI
Written for people first, and structured so the AI engines that now answer these questions describe you accurately.
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Can an ORM firm change what AI answer engines say about my company?
A capable ORM firm can influence what AI engines say about your company by improving the underlying source ecosystem: Wikipedia, structured data, authoritative earned media, but no firm can directly edit AI outputs. The work is done at the source layer, and results typically emerge over a six-to-twelve-month timeline.
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How does internal linking strategy affect AI crawling and indexing?
Internal link architecture signals topical structure to both Google and AI crawlers. Anchor text tells engines what each linked page is about, and a pillar page that draws consistent inbound links from related supporting content reads as the site's primary answer on that topic. Orphaned content (pages with few or no internal links pointing to them) is harder for crawlers to discover and for engines to weight authoritatively.
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What is the difference between AIQ and Profound or peec.ai?
Profound and Peec measure AI visibility: how often a brand is cited across a set of prompts. AIQ measures AI reputation: what the engines say, which sources drive the framing, what the sentiment is, and how the picture changes over time. Both metrics are legitimate, but they answer different questions and are bought by different teams.
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What is Generative Engine Optimization (GEO)?
Generative Engine Optimization (GEO) is the practice of optimizing content so that AI answer engines cite or quote it inside their generated responses. It is the AI-era counterpart to SEO: the success criterion is not ranking as a blue link but being part of the synthesized answer.
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How does schema markup affect AI visibility?
Schema markup gives AI engines machine-readable signals about content type, authorship, entity context, and structure. Pages with proper schema (Organization, Person, Article, FAQPage) are cited more confidently because the markup removes ambiguity the engine would otherwise have to resolve from text and HTML alone.
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