
How to Score Citation Share: The 5-Component Formula
The share of AI-generated answers across a defined prompt set in which a brand appears. Five components, weighted. The only metric that matters.

The share of AI-generated answers across a defined prompt set in which a brand appears. Five components, weighted. The only metric that matters.

GEO is a discipline, not a tactic. Retrieval Architecture, Entity Authority, Citation Anchors, Cross-Engine Coverage, Measurement. The full operating system.

GEO is the discipline of becoming the answer inside ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, Gemini, and Google AI Overviews. The complete definition.

LLM Optimization — LLMO — is the practice of improving how large language models represent, retrieve, and cite a brand. In most working use, it is the same discipline as GEO. The two terms are used interchangeably across the industry, and the gap between them is mostly one of emp…

Law firm communications is structurally behind every other professional-services category on the AI Communications layer. Why the category fell behind, what the four EPR studies in this cluster show, and what the top firms are doing about it.

Citation Share is the headline metric of GEO — but a program with only Citation Share is a scorecard, not an operating system. The full seven-metric stack: Citation Share, Entity Authority, Retrieval Frequency, Prompt Coverage, Crawl Health, Cross-Engine Variance, Citation Decay Rate.

Citation Share is the share of AI-generated answers in which a brand appears. The KPI behind GEO, how it is measured, what it captures, what it does not, and how to set up a Citation Share program.

First sector-wide measurement of AI Citation Share for the US lottery industry. 28 brands, 5 AI engines, 65 prompts. The $113B category is largely absent from the answer engines.

Every major religious institution is one investigation away from a reputation event. The six layers of trust infrastructure that determine how AI engines describe your tradition — built before the crisis, not after.

Google's E-E-A-T framework didn't die — it got re-weighted by the AI engines. Here is how Experience, Expertise, Authoritativeness, and Trustworthiness translate into Citation Share inside ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, Gemini, and Google AI Overviews.