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Studies, guides and explainers on getting your brand cited by ChatGPT, Perplexity and Google AI Overviews. Every number has a source.

Studies
26x
ahead of a rival on Perplexity citations
Noetio
noetio.com/blog

Does GEO Actually Work? Our Own Numbers

Does GEO actually work? We measured our own 22 day publishing push: Perplexity citations rose from 50% to two in three, 26 times ahead of a rival.

Michael Nefedov · Aug 5, 2026 · 5 min read

Guides
24h
Copilot Chat keeps the Bing queries it sent
Noetio
noetio.com/blog

How to Fix Incorrect Microsoft Copilot Answers

How to fix incorrect Microsoft Copilot answers about my business: you cannot edit Copilot, so find the Bing page that holds the wrong fact, fix it, and test again.

Michael Nefedov · Oct 18, 2026 · 4 min read

Guides
64%
of Claude's SaaS citations are brand sites
Noetio
noetio.com/blog

How to Get a SaaS Company Into Claude Answers

How to get a SaaS company into Claude answers: let Claude's crawlers in, publish clear pages, get named on other sites, then test. Backed by 379,321 citations.

Michael Nefedov · Oct 18, 2026 · 4 min read

Guides
4
fixes if ChatGPT skips your company
Noetio
noetio.com/blog

ChatGPT SEO: Why Your Company Isn't in ChatGPT

ChatGPT SEO: why ChatGPT names your competitors and not you. The 4 reasons, how to fix each, and how one agency got named first in ChatGPT in 7 days.

Michael Nefedov · Sep 27, 2026 · 3 min read

Guides
4
asks before you trust an agency report
Noetio
noetio.com/blog

How to Verify AI Visibility Agency Results: 4 Asks

How to verify AI visibility agency results: ask for the exact prompts, how many times each was run, results per engine, and the full answers behind every score.

Michael Nefedov · Sep 15, 2026 · 4 min read

Comparisons
17
vendors compared on price
Noetio
noetio.com/blog

GEO Pricing: What 17 GEO Vendors Charge

GEO pricing and GEO agency cost: tools list $17 to $800 a month, one enterprise SEO platform starts at $2,500, and agencies quote only on a call.

Kateryna Koloznikova · Sep 3, 2026 · 4 min read

Explainers
LLM SEO, explained
Noetio
noetio.com/blog

LLM SEO: What Works and What Doesn't

LLM SEO is writing pages that AI models quote. See what raised citations in the studies, what did nothing, and a checklist you can follow.

Michael Nefedov · Aug 28, 2026 · 4 min read

Explainers
What is an SEO agency?
Noetio
noetio.com/blog

What Is an SEO Agency? Services, Cost, How to Hire

What is an SEO agency? An outside team that grows your search traffic. See what it does, how it charges, what it costs and how to vet one.

Kateryna Koloznikova · Aug 21, 2026 · 4 min read

Explainers
What is AEO?
Noetio
noetio.com/blog

What Is AEO? Answer Engine Optimization Explained

What is AEO? Answer engine optimization is getting quoted inside an AI answer. See how AEO differs from SEO and GEO, and which fixes have evidence.

Michael Nefedov · Aug 13, 2026 · 4 min read

Guides
How to rank in AI Overviews
Noetio
noetio.com/blog

How to Rank in AI Overviews: 3 Things That Work

How to rank in AI Overviews: cover Google's query fan-out, earn mentions on other sites, and write pages it can quote. The evidence, ranked by strength.

Michael Nefedov · Jul 28, 2026 · 4 min read

Studies
58%
lower clickthrough at rank one
Noetio
noetio.com/blog

AI Overviews Traffic Loss: Rank 1 Loses 58%

AI Overviews traffic loss cuts clicks by 58% at rank one, and 68% of Google searches end with no click. Every published study, with its source.

Kateryna Koloznikova · Jul 28, 2026 · 4 min read

Studies
84%
of AI citations are earned media
Noetio
noetio.com/blog

AI Brand Mentions: Why Third-Party Pages Matter

AI brand mentions start with pages other people write about you. 84% of what ChatGPT, Gemini and Claude cite is earned media. The evidence, with every source.

Kateryna Koloznikova · Jul 27, 2026 · 5 min read

Explainers
How AI search engines work
Noetio
noetio.com/blog

How AI Search Engines Work: Retrieve, Rank, Cite

How AI search engines work: they retrieve pages from a web index, rank them, write an answer with a language model and cite sources. Which index each uses.

Michael Nefedov · Jul 22, 2026 · 6 min read

Explainers
200B
URLs in the Perplexity index
Noetio
noetio.com/blog

How Perplexity Search Works: Index and Ranking

How Perplexity search works: its own 200 billion URL index, a staged ranking pipeline, and pages scored in pieces. Every fact is from Perplexity's own docs.

Michael Nefedov · Jul 22, 2026 · 4 min read

Explainers
How ChatGPT search works
Noetio
noetio.com/blog

How ChatGPT Search Works: Bing and Query Rewrites

How ChatGPT search works: it rewrites your question, asks Bing and other providers, and writes a cited answer. What OpenAI documents, and what it does not.

Michael Nefedov · Jul 22, 2026 · 5 min read

Explainers
How Claude web search works
Noetio
noetio.com/blog

How Claude Web Search Works: What Is Confirmed

How Claude web search works: Anthropic documents the tool but never names the engine. Its own records and outside tests point to Brave. Not confirmed.

Michael Nefedov · Jul 22, 2026 · 5 min read

Comparisons
SEO automation
Noetio
noetio.com/blog

SEO Automation: What Can (and Can't) Be Automated

SEO automation for AI search: what tools can automate (finding questions, drafting pages) and what still needs a person (publishing, community mentions).

Kateryna Koloznikova · Jul 19, 2026 · 3 min read

Studies
54%
better conversion from AI referred traffic
Noetio
noetio.com/blog

GEO ROI and Business Case: Numbers That Hold Up

GEO ROI and business case: buyers start research in AI chatbots, AI-referred traffic converts 54% better, and big firms already fund AEO. Sourced numbers.

Kateryna Koloznikova · Jul 16, 2026 · 6 min read

Studies
How AI chooses what to cite
Noetio
noetio.com/blog

How AI Chooses What to Cite: What Research Shows

How AI chooses what to cite, per the studies: Google rank barely predicts it, engines disagree, and citations, quotes and stats help. llms.txt, schema do not.

Michael Nefedov · Jul 15, 2026 · 6 min read

Studies
50
grounded tests across 3 AI engines
Noetio
noetio.com/blog

CRM AI Visibility Leaderboard: Who AI Recommends

CRM AI visibility leaderboard: which CRM ChatGPT, Gemini and Perplexity recommend. HubSpot leads, seven of 20 CRMs score zero. Tested Aug 2026.

Kateryna Koloznikova · Jul 13, 2026 · 4 min read

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