
The Trust Signals ChatGPT Uses to Pick Sources (Reverse Engineered)
A developer read ChatGPT's network traffic. Practitioners mapped 400,000 pages. Here's what actually decides which sources ChatGPT trusts, fetches, and cites.
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A developer read ChatGPT's network traffic. Practitioners mapped 400,000 pages. Here's what actually decides which sources ChatGPT trusts, fetches, and cites.

Ahrefs shipped Bot Analytics in April. What the four reports actually tell you, the killer 23x conversion stat, and how to read the crawl-to-referral gap.

Perplexity's US mobile DAU fell 65% in six months. Here's where the users actually went, by name, with the data behind each destination and the founder read.

Adobe paid $1.9B for Semrush, and Enterprise AIO is the trophy. What it does well, where the community is angry, and how challengers should read the moment.

Ramp's June data has Anthropic at 41% of US businesses vs OpenAI's 39.5%. What the enterprise overtake means for AI citation strategy in the second half of 2026.

We tagged 500 Perplexity citations by domain, format, age, and rank. Five patterns emerged, and only 11% of them look anything like ChatGPT's picks.

We compared 9 AEO tools for tracking and improving AI search citations. Here's which ones work, what they cost, and who should use each one.

Why traditional search rankings are useless for AI search, how Share of Voice works as the replacement metric, and how to measure yours across ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude, and Gemini.

A step-by-step system for monitoring your brand across ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude, Gemini, and Copilot, plus the content strategies that actually drive more citations.
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