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High fact density is claimed to improve AI citation likelihood: each answer or claim should be supported by two or more facts, statistics, quotes, or reputable third-party sources.

@@tjrobertson52 · asserts

you do need your page to be cited. So let's talk about the most important factors for being cited and ultimately recommended. The first factor is the hardest to influence. It's what's known as primary bias. This is just what the model already thinks about your brand before performing a search, and it's based on its training data. There's really no easy wa...

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AI search doesn't care where you rank. It considers 100+ results and only cites a handful. Th...

@@tjrobertson52 · 2026-03-13

You need to stop thinking about how to rank in traditional Google search and start focusing on how to get recommended. In AI search. Cause pretty soon all search will be AI search. I think it's gonna happen by the end of this year. And to be clear, this will still be mostly happening on Google. It's just gonna be an AI giving you the results. I want to ta...

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You need to stop thinking about how to rank in traditional Google search and start focusing on how to get recommended. In AI search. Cause pretty soon all search will be AI search. I think it's gonna happen by the end of this year. And to be clear, this will still be mostly happening on Google. It's just gonna be an AI giving you the results. I want to talk about the most fundamental shift, cause it seems like most people are struggling to understand this. In traditional Google search, a human performs a search...
you do need your page to be cited. So let's talk about the most important factors for being cited and ultimately recommended. The first factor is the hardest to influence. It's what's known as primary bias. This is just what the model already thinks about your brand before performing a search, and it's based on its training data. There's really no easy way to influence this. But the more content there is online talking about your brand in a positive light, the more likely AI is to site your website. The other ba...
u're on your own website. Don't say we or our. Say your brand's name. And then immediately after recommending your brand, back it up with two or more facts. Share numbers you're proud of, awards you've won, or testimonials from customers. Now, you don't want to turn the entire article into a sales letter, but I recommend doing this at least once at the top of the article, right after addressing the main question, and then in one or two other places if it makes sense. There are a handful of other factors that aff...