https://www.elmohq.com/blog Open-source answer engine optimization (AEO) platform: track how AI answers mention and cite your brand. https://www.elmohq.com/blog/do-ai-engines-cite-the-same-sources https://www.elmohq.com/blog/do-ai-engines-cite-the-same-sources Wed, 23 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT A new academic audit found Google and Baidu give near-identical answers while sharing 3% of their cited domains — and Google's own two AI surfaces agree even less. What that means for tracking one engine and extrapolating to the rest. https://www.elmohq.com/blog/does-ai-written-content-get-cited https://www.elmohq.com/blog/does-ai-written-content-get-cited Sun, 20 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Roughly half of new articles are AI-generated, yet AI-written pages earn a fraction of AI citations. Five datasets on the gap, why the headline numbers seem to contradict each other, and the threshold that actually matters. https://www.elmohq.com/blog/who-should-own-ai-visibility https://www.elmohq.com/blog/who-should-own-ai-visibility Tue, 15 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT One in five SEO job ads now asks for AI search, GEO, or AEO skills — but only 720 postings in a year put the discipline in the title. Three datasets on what companies are actually doing, and a decision rule for when the work justifies a headcount. https://www.elmohq.com/blog/how-many-websites-block-ai-crawlers https://www.elmohq.com/blog/how-many-websites-block-ai-crawlers Sun, 13 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Published blocking rates run from 9% to 54% of sites, and the spread is mostly two dials: which slice of the web was sampled, and whether the bot blocked does search or training. Here's the reconciliation, and what blocking measurably costs. https://www.elmohq.com/blog/press-releases-ai-visibility https://www.elmohq.com/blog/press-releases-ai-visibility Sat, 12 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT One dataset says paid and advertorial content earns 0.3% of AI citations; another says a wire-distributed story reaches 9–20% of related answers. Both are right, and the difference is a decision rule about where PR budget goes. https://www.elmohq.com/blog/why-ai-visibility-scores-differ https://www.elmohq.com/blog/why-ai-visibility-scores-differ Fri, 11 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Same brand, same week, two tools, two very different AI visibility scores — and often neither is broken. A new preprint shows the prompt set and its weights define what the score measures, with a worked example swinging 31 points on weighting alone. https://www.elmohq.com/blog/ai-search-fact-checking https://www.elmohq.com/blog/ai-search-fact-checking Thu, 10 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT A new 72,000-page benchmark fed fabricated brand claims to ten search agents: they endorsed the fake brands in 40–50% of exposed runs and verified suspicious evidence in about 2%. Corroboration, not truth, is what the agents check. https://www.elmohq.com/blog/can-content-scores-predict-ai-citations https://www.elmohq.com/blog/can-content-scores-predict-ai-citations Wed, 09 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT A new validation study re-measured the classic GEO effect sizes on ten modern engines and found they move citation on none. What an engine-free content score can and cannot tell you. https://www.elmohq.com/blog/search-console-ai-visibility https://www.elmohq.com/blog/search-console-ai-visibility Tue, 08 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Search Console's generative AI performance report is now live worldwide. It shows impressions in AI Overviews and AI Mode — and omits queries, clicks, and every other engine. Here's how to read it. https://www.elmohq.com/blog/can-you-trust-ai-citations https://www.elmohq.com/blog/can-you-trust-ai-citations Wed, 02 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Two independent audits published the same day found 34.7% of Perplexity's citations don't back the sentence they're attached to, and a three-site network manufactured 215,128 buying guides AI cites. Here's what that does to citation counts as a KPI. https://www.elmohq.com/blog/do-geo-tactics-stop-working https://www.elmohq.com/blog/do-geo-tactics-stop-working Mon, 31 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT Two simulations of GEO in a competitive market: fixed tactics lose their edge as adoption rises, and the ranking signal itself drifts away from quality as the pool optimizes. https://www.elmohq.com/blog/youtube-ai-citations https://www.elmohq.com/blog/youtube-ai-citations Fri, 28 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT Six published figures for YouTube's presence in AI answers run from 0.99% to 23.3%, and every one of them is defensible. The spread is engines and denominators — and it decides whether video belongs in your AEO plan at all. https://www.elmohq.com/blog/openai-licensing-deals-chatgpt-citations https://www.elmohq.com/blog/openai-licensing-deals-chatgpt-citations Thu, 20 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT A new 129-million-citation study finds publishers with OpenAI deals earn 48% more ChatGPT citations per page — while Google's and Perplexity's licensees get no home-platform edge at all. https://www.elmohq.com/blog/chatgpt-ui-reddit-citations-api https://www.elmohq.com/blog/chatgpt-ui-reddit-citations-api Wed, 19 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT Reddit's share of citations in the ChatGPT UI fell by more than 90%. The surprising part is where it landed: near the level API web search was already returning. https://www.elmohq.com/blog/aeo-vs-seo https://www.elmohq.com/blog/aeo-vs-seo Tue, 18 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT Answer engine optimization (AEO) competes for citations inside AI answers. Search engine optimization (SEO) competes for clicks from ranked links. What transfers, what doesn't, and whether you need both in 2026. https://www.elmohq.com/blog/geo-detection https://www.elmohq.com/blog/geo-detection Tue, 18 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT A new CISPA study puts a number on GEO adoption for the first time: 8.9% of pages AI search retrieves are optimized, and detectors can now flag them — mostly. https://www.elmohq.com/blog/ai-visibility-client-reporting https://www.elmohq.com/blog/ai-visibility-client-reporting Sun, 16 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT 42% of agencies now field 'why is organic traffic declining?' Here's the AI visibility report that answers it, and where the popular playbook falls short. https://www.elmohq.com/blog/citation-wars https://www.elmohq.com/blog/citation-wars Thu, 13 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT A CMU paper simulates what happens when everyone optimizes for AI citations: quality falls and filters fail. A second benchmark shows safety guardrails missing GEO-injected misinformation, and a third paper now cuts GEO's success rate from 50% to 6% — by treating the rewrite itself as the attack. https://www.elmohq.com/blog/best-ai-content-writers https://www.elmohq.com/blog/best-ai-content-writers Tue, 11 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT Evatype, Surfer SEO, KoalaWriter, Outrank, Byword, and AirOps compared on the thing that decides whether AI-written content gets cited: what tells it what to write about. https://www.elmohq.com/blog/reddit-ai-citations https://www.elmohq.com/blog/reddit-ai-citations Sun, 09 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT Reddit is still a top-cited domain, but it has slipped behind YouTube on the assistants, it barely registers in Google's AI Overviews, and in August 2026 its share of ChatGPT Search citations fell 86% in four days — with no confirmed cause. https://www.elmohq.com/blog/ai-referral-traffic-conversion https://www.elmohq.com/blog/ai-referral-traffic-conversion Sat, 08 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT Adobe measured AI-referred retail visitors converting 54% better than everyone else, and Shopify's AI-driven orders tripled. Contentsquare put AI at 0.2% of all sessions. Both are true, and together they change what you should be measuring. https://www.elmohq.com/blog/best-llm-scraping-apis https://www.elmohq.com/blog/best-llm-scraping-apis Thu, 06 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT Cloro, BrightData, Oxylabs, Olostep, and DataForSEO compared on cost, coverage, and measured success rates from a tool that runs all five in production. https://www.elmohq.com/blog/iab-ai-visibility-metrics https://www.elmohq.com/blog/iab-ai-visibility-metrics Wed, 05 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT Which AI search visibility metrics actually matter, and when a number is solid enough to spend budget against — built on the IAB's 4 P's and its decision-grade criteria. https://www.elmohq.com/blog/rankings-and-ai-citations https://www.elmohq.com/blog/rankings-and-ai-citations Mon, 03 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT Published estimates of the overlap between top-10 rankings and AI citations range from 12% to 93%. The spread is the finding: rank is neither necessary nor sufficient for citation. https://www.elmohq.com/blog/linkedin-ai-citations https://www.elmohq.com/blog/linkedin-ai-citations Sun, 02 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT Two 2026 studies put LinkedIn second only to Reddit or YouTube among cited domains — and most of those citations point at individual profiles, not brand pages. What that changes about who publishes. https://www.elmohq.com/blog/how-long-to-get-cited-by-ai https://www.elmohq.com/blog/how-long-to-get-cited-by-ai Sat, 01 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT Presence builds over weeks, not days, and the content AI cites is typically months old. Three 2026 datasets on the clock behind AI citations, and what it changes about your measurement window. https://www.elmohq.com/blog/ghost-citations https://www.elmohq.com/blog/ghost-citations Thu, 30 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT Semrush and Kevin Indig found 61.7% of brand appearances in AI answers were citations with no brand mention. Here's why citation and mention come apart, and how to fix each failure separately. https://www.elmohq.com/blog/where-ai-citations-come-from https://www.elmohq.com/blog/where-ai-citations-come-from Wed, 29 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT Across 25 million links cited by AI engines, 84% pointed at domains the brand doesn't own — but on the evaluation-stage prompts that decide shortlists, the ratio flips. Here's what that changes about where you spend your AEO effort. https://www.elmohq.com/blog/ai-overviews-share-of-searches https://www.elmohq.com/blog/ai-overviews-share-of-searches Tue, 28 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT New Similarweb data puts an AI Overview on more than 40% of US Google searches, up from 15% a year ago. Here's what that changes about measuring AI visibility. https://www.elmohq.com/blog/multi-turn-ai-search https://www.elmohq.com/blog/multi-turn-ai-search Mon, 27 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT New research finds the last prompt in an AI conversation carries about a third of what the user actually said. Here's what that means for measuring AI visibility. https://www.elmohq.com/blog/microsoft-clarity-ai-citations https://www.elmohq.com/blog/microsoft-clarity-ai-citations Sat, 25 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT Clarity's Citation dashboard is free, first-party data on which of your pages AI answers cite. Here's what its metrics mean, what the new scrape-to-referral ratio tells you, and the one ecosystem it can see. https://www.elmohq.com/blog/opt-out-google-ai-overviews https://www.elmohq.com/blog/opt-out-google-ai-overviews Fri, 24 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT Google now has a Search Console toggle that removes your site from AI Overviews and AI Mode without hurting your rankings. Here's who it's for, and why most brands shouldn't touch it. https://www.elmohq.com/blog/ai-share-of-voice https://www.elmohq.com/blog/ai-share-of-voice Wed, 15 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT AI share of voice measures how often answer engines mention your brand versus competitors. Learn the definition, how to calculate it, and how to improve it. https://www.elmohq.com/blog/best-aeo-tools https://www.elmohq.com/blog/best-aeo-tools Wed, 15 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT We compared 12 AEO tools and AEO tracking software on engine coverage, citation tracking, competitor benchmarking, and price. Open-source, self-serve, and enterprise options included. https://www.elmohq.com/blog/best-ai-visibility-tools https://www.elmohq.com/blog/best-ai-visibility-tools Wed, 15 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT Fourteen AI visibility software platforms compared on engine coverage, sample size, reproducibility, and export — the four things that decide whether the visibility numbers you get are trustworthy. https://www.elmohq.com/blog/free-ai-visibility-tools https://www.elmohq.com/blog/free-ai-visibility-tools Wed, 15 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT Free tools to track brand mentions in ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity and Google AI Overviews. What open-source self-hosting, free tiers, graders and manual checks can and can't do. https://www.elmohq.com/blog/citation-volatility https://www.elmohq.com/blog/citation-volatility Wed, 03 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT We tracked a set of prompts to answer this question. Domains AI cites churn more than you'd think, and how much depends on what you ask. https://www.elmohq.com/blog/best-geo-tools https://www.elmohq.com/blog/best-geo-tools Tue, 02 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT The best generative engine optimization tools in 2026, compared. Elmo, Profound, Peec AI, Scrunch and more GEO platforms rated on engine coverage, sampling, and price. https://www.elmohq.com/blog/getcito-vs-elmo https://www.elmohq.com/blog/getcito-vs-elmo Tue, 02 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT GetCito is a fork of Elmo's codebase since July 10, 2026. Here is the comparison. https://www.elmohq.com/blog/robots-txt-ai-crawlers https://www.elmohq.com/blog/robots-txt-ai-crawlers Tue, 02 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT A leftover 'Disallow: /' can hide your site from AI search. Here's which AI crawlers to allow, which to block, and how to check your robots.txt in minutes. https://www.elmohq.com/blog/structured-data-for-ai-search https://www.elmohq.com/blog/structured-data-for-ai-search Sun, 31 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT How structured data helps AI engines understand and cite your content: a practical guide to schema markup and llms.txt for AEO. https://www.elmohq.com/blog/do-llms-txt-files-matter-for-aeo https://www.elmohq.com/blog/do-llms-txt-files-matter-for-aeo Sat, 30 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT The llms.txt convention is often misunderstood due to minor nuances in how it's used by AI search. Learn how agentic search actually uses Markdown text. https://www.elmohq.com/blog/chatgpt-prompts-for-seo https://www.elmohq.com/blog/chatgpt-prompts-for-seo Fri, 29 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT A library of copy-paste ChatGPT prompts for SEO and marketing: keyword research, content briefs, on-page, meta tags, and auditing your AI visibility. https://www.elmohq.com/blog/ai-competitor-analysis https://www.elmohq.com/blog/ai-competitor-analysis Wed, 27 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT AI competitor analysis benchmarks your brand against rivals in AI search: who gets cited, on which prompts. Here's how to run one, step by step. https://www.elmohq.com/blog/ai-brand-sentiment https://www.elmohq.com/blog/ai-brand-sentiment Mon, 25 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT AI brand sentiment is how AI engines characterize your brand, not just whether they mention you. Learn how to monitor and improve it. https://www.elmohq.com/blog/ai-prompt-tracking https://www.elmohq.com/blog/ai-prompt-tracking Tue, 19 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT AI answers change run to run, so cadence decides whether your numbers mean anything. A concrete default for how often to run AEO prompt tracking, and when to deviate. https://www.elmohq.com/blog/ai-citations https://www.elmohq.com/blog/ai-citations Thu, 07 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT AI citations are the source links AI answers attribute information to. Learn how AI engines decide what to cite, and how to earn citations. https://www.elmohq.com/blog/ai-for-seo https://www.elmohq.com/blog/ai-for-seo Thu, 30 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT A practical guide to AI for SEO: which parts of the workflow AI genuinely speeds up, where it quietly costs you rankings, which AI SEO tools are worth paying for, and how AI search changes the job. https://www.elmohq.com/blog/best-ai-search-engine https://www.elmohq.com/blog/best-ai-search-engine Mon, 20 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT The best AI search engines compared: ChatGPT Search, Perplexity, Google AI Overviews, Gemini, Copilot, Claude, Grok and Brave — by strengths, underlying models, price, and which are free.