These are deterministic, source-backed cards from the offline export. They are not live AI answers.
One high-quality piece of content can be repurposed across many platforms to target the same AI-search intent.
@@tjrobertson52 · asserts
explicitly recommend you and when the large language model cites you, it's going to retrieve a block of text and if in that text isn't the recommendation for your brand, it actually doesn't matter that it cited your website, it's not gonna recommend you in the response. So those are all the ways that you can influence the content that's on the pages large...
How to Influence AI Citations: 90% of companies waste time on directories that don't matter....
@@tjrobertson52 · 2025-11-28
If you want your company or brand to be recommended by large language models, you need to be tracking the pages and websites they cite. In other words, you need to be simulating the kinds of prompts that your ideal customer might be typing into these large language models. And then pay attention to what pages online the large language models look at befor...
If you want your company or brand to be recommended by large language models, you need to be tracking the pages and websites they cite. In other words, you need to be simulating the kinds of prompts that your ideal customer might be typing into these large language models. And then pay attention to what pages online the large language models look at before they recommend you or your competitors. This is really the entire game right now. If those pages cited by the large language models recommend your brand, the...
to vary wildly by industry. So any advice about, hey, Chat GBT really likes this website or hey, you should be on this website cause Google sites it all the time. None of that advice is generally true across industries. You really need to be tracking prompts of people looking for the type of service or product that you offer. Let's talk about directories. Typically, there's gonna be between one and 5 directories that large language models often refer to when people are asking about your industry. Might be other...
ing. Right now outside of directories, the other listicles you can be on might be on a blog post, a LinkedIn article, a medium article. Typically it's going to be very difficult to get your brand added to these listicles. A lot of them are going to be created by your competitors. However, it also takes about 30 seconds to send an email and ask what it takes to get on their listicle. So I think it's worth the effort. In our experience, we have about a 5% success rate. Most of the time, though, they're gonna ask f...
explicitly recommend you and when the large language model cites you, it's going to retrieve a block of text and if in that text isn't the recommendation for your brand, it actually doesn't matter that it cited your website, it's not gonna recommend you in the response. So those are all the ways that you can influence the content that's on the pages large language models are already citing. However, in our experience, we have a lot more success influencing these responses by creating content ourselves. I feel li...
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