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Weekly updates, tutorials, and case studies from the team building Citany. Real data, no filters.
Starting today, I'm using Citany — the tool I built — as a live experiment. Zero GSC coverage, zero AI mentions, domain age 2 weeks. I'm documenting everything publicly. Here's the full starting context and what I plan to do.
Most brands only track 'is my brand mentioned?' That's one question type out of six. The other five are where your competitors are winning — and where the real AI visibility gap lives.
AEO is not set-and-forget. Every change you make to improve AI visibility needs a baseline, a control, and a window to evaluate. Without these three things, you are guessing.
A single visibility score hides more than it reveals. A brand can score 80% while being cited negatively. Another can score 40% but dominate the highest-value buyer prompts. Here is what to measure instead.
Zero mentions across ChatGPT, Perplexity, DeepSeek, and Kimi. This is exactly what Day 2 should look like — and it is the most important data point of the entire challenge. Here is the full baseline and what I did today to start changing it.
Every time an AI engine cites your competitor instead of you, it is leaving a trail. The source URL, the page type, the type of claim being made — all of it is diagnostic information if you know how to read it.
245 impressions in 7 days. That's 6× what we had the week before. Google has now indexed ~80 pages. But Bing had a crawl error blocking our homepage from being indexed — we caught it via URL Inspection and fixed it.
Perplexity AI now processes hundreds of millions of queries per month. It cites specific sources in nearly every answer. If your brand isn't being cited — or worse, being ignored in favor of competitors — you won't know unless you monitor it directly.
We discovered today that Cloudflare's Managed robots.txt had silently blocked Claude-SearchBot 17 times — on a site built to monitor AI brand visibility. Here are the 7 Cloudflare settings that can make your brand invisible to AI search engines, and exactly how to fix each one.
Your Google Analytics shows zero traffic from ChatGPT. That's not because ChatGPT isn't sending people — it's because ChatGPT traffic is invisible to GA. Here's how to find out what ChatGPT is saying about your brand, and how to track it consistently.
