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109735",target:"_blank",rel:"noreferrer",className:"text-[#B4562A] hover:underline",children:'"GEO: Generative Engine Optimization"'}),", KDD 2024. 10,000 queries; Cite Sources, Quotation Addition and Statistics Addition gained 30% to 40%."]}),e.jsxs("li",{children:["Puerto, Gubri, Green, Oh and Yun, ",e.jsx("a",{href:"https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.11097",target:"_blank",rel:"noreferrer",className:"text-[#B4562A] hover:underline",children:'"C-SEO Bench: Does Conversational SEO Work?"'}),", NeurIPS 2025 Datasets and Benchmarks Track. Nine methods, six domains, 1,921 queries; most methods largely ineffective under multi-actor adoption."]}),e.jsxs("li",{children:["Profound, ",e.jsx("a",{href:"https://www.tryprofound.com/blog/ai-platform-citation-patterns",target:"_blank",rel:"noreferrer",className:"text-[#B4562A] hover:underline",children:'"AI Platform Citation Patterns"'}),". 680 million citations, August 2024 to June 2025. Reddit top domain on Perplexity and AI Overviews; Wikipedia top on ChatGPT."]}),e.jsxs("li",{children:["Semrush, ",e.jsx("a",{href:"https://www.semrush.com/blog/most-cited-domains-ai/",target:"_blank",rel:"noreferrer",className:"text-[#B4562A] hover:underline",children:'"The Most-Cited Domains in AI: A 3-Month Study"'}),", November 2025. 230,000 prompts over 13 weeks; ChatGPT Reddit citations fell from roughly 60% to 10% of responses."]}),e.jsx("li",{children:'Muck Rack, "What Is AI Reading?", May 2026. More than 25 million cited links across ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini; earned media 84% of citations, ranging 82% to 89% across three editions.'}),e.jsx("li",{children:"Stacker and Scrunch, December 2025. 944 prompt and platform combinations across five AI platforms; brand-domain citation rate 7.6% vs 34% when distributed to third-party news sites."}),e.jsx("li",{children:"Meltwater AI search visibility analysis, April 2026. 5.35 million citations; earned and news media 39.5%, other (including corporate sites) 50.3%."}),e.jsx("li",{children:'Red-engage, "Reddit Citations in AI Answers", 2026. More than 10,000 citations across four engines; Reddit 46.7% of Perplexity top-source citations and 21.0% of Google AI Overviews.'}),e.jsx("li",{children:"Microsoft, Fabrice Canel, SMX Munich, March 2025. Confirmed schema markup helps Microsoft language models understand web content for Copilot."})]})]})]})]})})]})}export{S as default};