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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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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How to Measure Google Business Profile Post Actions
Use matched weekdays, one primary action, live-post checks, UTM discipline, and explicit confounders to compare Business Profile post and control windows without treating interaction counts as ranking proof.
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How to Track AI Search Referrals in GA4
Create a maintained AI-assistant referral segment in GA4, preserve the raw source evidence, and report click visits without presenting them as complete citation coverage.
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How to Audit Capterra Citations in ChatGPT SaaS Recommendations
This guide separates Capterra mentions, citations, SaaS recommendations, and measurable referrals, then gives you a 43-field ledger and browser-local evidence auditor.
