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The Big List of AI Visibility, AEO, GEO & Citation & Mention Tracking Tools
35+ AI visibility, AEO and GEO trackers in one place: pricing, ownership, funding, and what each one actually tracks. Some are rank trackers with a new coat of paint, some are SEO suites bolting AI onto old workflows, and a few want to do the work for you. Searchable, sortable, and updated as this market keeps shifting under our feet.
YouBot Is Bigger Than You Think: Who Uses You.com Search?
YouBot may look like another AI crawler jamming up your logs. Dig into where You.com’s search infrastructure is actually available,…
OpEd Sunday, Follow the Money
In the 1976 film All the President’s Men, screenwriter William Goldman gave Deep Throat one of the most memorable lines…
Ross Hudgens: GEO Is Becoming an Off-Site Marketing Problem
At BrightonSEO Conference, Ross Hudgens said that, AI search visibility may increasingly depend on affiliate sites, YouTube creators, communities and third-party publishers, according to Ross Hudgens, who says marketers need to pay much closer attention to who the models actually cite.
Uberall GEO experiment: YouTube content doubled AI mentions and citations
A 90-day test found that structured, answer-focused video content improved visibility across ChatGPT, Gemini and Perplexity, while exposing a bigger…
I Hid 15 Names in a 705,216-Word Page. Gemini Found Four. Meta AI Found All 15.
Meta AI listed them like a shopping list. Everdene. Virelune. Narrowbeck. Fitchwold. Brimsel. Yestrave. Mibbelth. Varkhoon. Cassivane. Turnbold. Wumbral. Mawthorn.…
Skype Died 14 Months Ago. Four AI Assistants Still Recommend It.
“Yes, you can still use Skype; it remains available and functional.” That is Grok, in English, with a Microsoft source…
AI Invented Zero Changes and Missed 242 Real Ones
If auditing what AI assistants say about your category is part of your job, you have probably built some kind…
You cannot take an AI at its word – and why this is important für your GEO efforts.
In part 1 I left you with a promise: same AI, same question asked twice, opposite answers. Here is where…
Which AI systems actually read the live web, and why it decides your GEO
I asked 16 AI assistants 50 health questions. One read 147 web pages, another read zero. That split decides your whole GEO strategy. Here is why.
Do AI Assistants Actually Respect Your robots.txt? We Put 12 of Them to the Test.
Our investigation into AI crawler behavior all began with a surprising inquiry from one of our clients: if we block…
Do AI Assistants Actually Render Your JavaScript when Grounding? We Put It to the Test.
Our investigation into how AI assistants read web pages all began with a surprising inquiry from one of our clients.…
Amazon Blocks Perplexity’s Automated Shopping Bot
A US federal judge has issued an injunction blocking the AI startup Perplexity from running its automated shopping agent on…
The Trust Stack: LLM Inputs – What Can We Push?
The current situation we are in was artfully describe by the hero robot from the 80’s classic Short Circuit. Johnny…
AI Visibility and Citation Monitoring Tools, What SEOs Can Get
Last Updated 6/2/2026) Part of SearchEngineWorlds ongoing tools reviews and coverage: Traffic and logging tools beyond GA ChatGPT referral and…
Differentiated Delivery: Evolving and Cloaking Your Robots.txt into an Active Bot Gatekeeper
Differentiated Delivery : Stopping the bot storms: Serve trusted crawlers like Google a permissive robots.txt while blocking rogue scrapers with dynamic robots.txt in Apache, Nginx…
Firefox Adds Perplexity AI as a Desktop Search Engine Option
Mozilla has officially added Perplexity AI as a built-in search engine option in the desktop version of Firefox, marking…