Common failures
Where this usually goes wrong
The three we are called in to fix most often. If any of these describe your current setup, that is the first thing we would change.
Measurement
How you will know it is working
Agreed before we start, so progress is visible in the months before it shows up in revenue.
- AI crawler access
- Whether GPTBot, PerplexityBot and ClaudeBot can fetch and read your pages at all. Binary, and the first thing to fix.
- Week 1
- Citation share
- Percentage of your tracked questions where you are named, sampled across several runs because these systems are non-deterministic.
- Monthly
- Competitor share
- Who is being cited instead. It is usually more actionable than your own number, because it names the source to displace.
- Monthly