AI Search Source Credibility: Build a 32-Field Audit Ledger
Adapt an EACL 2026 study into a claim-source audit that preserves sample, user role, credibility rules, groundedness, adjudication and limitations.
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Citation Absorption: Audit How Sources Shape AI Answers
Audit what an AI answer actually uses from each cited source with a claim-passage ledger for contribution, fidelity, review, limits, and re-audit.
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ChatGPT Plugin Metadata: Test Tool Selection and Restraint
Evaluate plugin metadata with direct, indirect, and negative prompts; confusion counts; argument and safety checks; controlled revisions; and a reusable ledger.
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How to Validate AI Visibility Scores Against Referral Traffic
Match AI-visibility scores to referral sessions by page, platform, date, coverage and lag before calculating correlation or making a traffic claim.
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AI Visibility Tools in 2026: A Buyer’s Measurement Matrix
Compare AI visibility tools by prompt provenance, execution method, evidence access, metric definitions, platform coverage, cadence, and decision fit.
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What 45 GEO Studies Actually Prove—and What They Do Not
A critical 2026 survey separates retrieval, citation, absorption and downstream behavior—and finds the evidence narrower than most GEO claims.
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ChatGPT Referral Growth: Separate AEO Lift from Platform Tailwind
Separate intervention-aligned ChatGPT referral movement from platform growth with treated and control definitions, first-party evidence, placebo checks, organic guardrails, and a reusable ledger.
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Citation Wars: Can GEO Optimization Make Content Worse?
A 2026 simulation shows how citation-seeking rewrites can degrade quality—and how to test AEO changes without sacrificing evidence or reader value.
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Cloudflare MCP Detection vs Crawler Control: A 24-Request Test
Separate Cloudflare Gateway MCP policy from public crawler controls with a 24-request fixture and a 145,325-request origin-log field audit.
