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Only 8.9% of sites block AI crawlers, but 94.8% are never cited in AI answers
4 hours ago
- 94.8% of audited websites are never named in AI assistant answers to buying-intent questions.
- Only 1.9% of 5,978 assistant answers across ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and Perplexity mentioned the business being audited.
- Gemini had the highest mention rate at 2.9%, while 8.9% of sites block at least one AI crawler, mainly training crawlers.
- 54.6% of sites publish structured data, but only 19.3% use LocalBusiness schema for name, address, and category.
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AI Visibility Evidence Model: Five Factors, Graded by Evidence
2 days ago
- The AI Visibility Evidence Model is a reference model that orders publisher-side factors behind AI visibility by strength of evidence, with five factors: Topical Relevance, Machine Access, Entity Consistency, Extractability, and Independent Corroboration.
- The model is descriptive, not prescriptive; it reports evidence grades (A-D) based on peer-reviewed research, official documentation, and controlled preprints, without promising results.
- Topical Relevance (Grade A) is the strongest content-side driver, as controlled studies show topic match dominates citation, while off-topic content is rarely cited.
- Machine Access (Grade B) is a gate: crawlers must access content for it to be used in AI answers, per platform documentation from OpenAI and Google.
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Show HN: PilotCite – Get your brand cited by ChatGPT, Gemini, and more
14 days ago
- PilotCite is a platform for monitoring AI visibility across various AI platforms like ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Google AI Overview.
- It provides features such as mention rate, sentiment analysis, share of voice against competitors, and scheduled reports in a unified dashboard.
- The platform includes tools for site audits, content generation, research on high-intent prompts, and competitor tracking to improve AI citation rates.
- PilotCite offers different pricing plans starting with a free plan for basic monitoring, scaling up to more comprehensive coverage for multiple brands and competitors.
Every AI Visibility Tool Is Lying to You
a month ago
- AI visibility tools promise to measure brand visibility in AI answers but often provide false precision by presenting tidy claims like mention rates and rankings.
- Scraping the frontend of AI products like ChatGPT or Claude captures only one synthetic session with many uncontrolled variables, leading to biased measurements.
- Even with identical prompts, AI systems can produce varying answers due to factors like model batching, personalization, and nondeterministic behavior.
- Consumer apps and APIs behave differently; APIs offer controlled, repeatable measurement but may not match what users see in the product interface.
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ai visibility

Only 8.9% of sites block AI crawlers, but 94.8% are never cited in AI answers

AI Visibility Evidence Model: Five Factors, Graded by Evidence

Show HN: PilotCite – Get your brand cited by ChatGPT, Gemini, and more

Every AI Visibility Tool Is Lying to You