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GEO Strategy and AI Search Visibility Insights

Practical research and guidance for improving how brands are understood in AI search.

Start with the question you need to answer.

Five reading paths connect the strategy to the checks, evidence, and decisions behind it.

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Practical thinking for your next decision

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Questions before you start

Where should we start if our website is not appearing in search?

Start with discovery and indexing checks: confirm important pages return successfully, review robots and noindex rules, inspect canonical URLs, and verify the sitemap. Check the actual indexing status in your search engine webmaster tools before expanding the content plan.

Work through the technical checks
Will a sitemap or llms.txt guarantee that an AI answer cites us?

No. Treat discovery files as supporting documentation, not a promise of inclusion. An accessible page still needs useful information and evidence. Track whether a system actually retrieves or cites the page instead of treating the presence of a file as a result.

Understand crawler access
What makes an article useful evidence rather than another opinion?

State a specific claim, link its source, and show the date, sample, and method where relevant. For your own research, explain how the findings were collected and what they cannot establish. Keep third-party results separate from your own outcomes.

Plan research readers can check
How should we report GEO progress?

Report completed work, sampled AI mentions, cited URLs, referral visits, and qualified inquiries as separate measures. Preserve the question set, platform, observation date, and attribution rules so the next review can make a fair comparison. Note missing data and changes in the method.

Use the reporting template
How should we use case studies when choosing an agency?

Check who delivered the work, which dates and baselines support each metric, and whether the source describes the measurement method. A third-party case analysis or an illustrative delivery plan can help you assess an approach, but it is not proof of Sementa client results or a forecast for your business.

Read case studies critically

What should your business do next?

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