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Do a Handful of Domains Control AI Citations? The Verdict — Plus a Per-Format GEO Playbook
An industry index says 15 domains control 68% of AI citations. Our week-long GEO Lab experiment says that’s false where GEO actually competes — for buyer-intent queries the top 15 capture 23%, spread across 220 domains. What the chosen domains DO share isn’t a type or an authority tier: it’s a page format. 66% of…
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Does a Reddit Mention Cause an AI Citation? The Verdict — Plus a Per-Engine Reddit Playbook
We spent a week testing whether a Reddit mention actually causes an AI citation, or just correlates. Verdict: contributing signal, not a citation lever — Reddit appears in 67% of Google AI answers but is the linked source only 4% of the time. Here’s the scorecard and a per-engine Reddit playbook for ChatGPT, Perplexity, Google…
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Does a Reddit Mention Actually Cause an AI Citation? Our Pre-Registered Method
Everyone says “get on Reddit” to win AI citations. But correlation isn’t cause. Here’s our full, pre-registered method — three convergent tests, predictions locked in before the data, zero astroturfing — to find out if a Reddit mention actually moves the needle.
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Reddit Is the #1 Domain AI Engines Cite — and Still Only 4% of Their Sources
Raw results from our pre-registered Reddit-causation experiment. Across 3 AI engines and 12 buyer-intent questions, Reddit is the single most-cited domain — yet only 3.9% of all sources. It appears in up to 67% of answers but is almost never the actual cited link. Prediction #1 confirmed.
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Is Reddit Still the #1 Source AI Engines Cite in 2026? The Data Contradicts Itself
Some 2026 studies call Reddit AI’s #1 citation source; others say YouTube just overtook it. On Perplexity alone, reported Reddit share ranges from 7% to 47%. Here’s why the numbers disagree — and the experiment we’re running this week to settle it.
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No Universal GEO Strategy — The Verdict, Plus a Per-Engine Checklist for ChatGPT, Perplexity, Google AI Mode & Gemini
We spent a week stress-testing one claim: there’s no universal GEO strategy across AI engines. Verdict — confirmed. Here’s the final scorecard from our 4-engine experiment, plus a per-engine checklist for ChatGPT, Perplexity, Google AI Mode, and Gemini.
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We Asked 4 AI Engines the Same 15 Questions — Only 0.5% of Sources Overlapped
The raw results from our pre-registered GEO Lab experiment. Across 4 AI engines and 15 buyer-intent questions, 386 cited domains — and only 0.5% were cited by all four. Two predictions hit, one surprised us. Here’s every number.
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How We’re Testing Whether One GEO Strategy Works Across AI Engines (Our Method)
We claimed there’s no universal GEO strategy. Now we’re proving it. Here’s the full, pre-registered method for our 4-engine, 15-question citation experiment — predictions locked in before we collect a single data point.
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Is There One GEO Strategy for Every AI Engine? The 2026 Data Says No
Google just made AI Mode the default for 1B+ users. But new 2026 data shows AI engines cite almost no sources in common. Here’s why there is no universal GEO strategy — and what to do instead.