Founder, Linksii
Phill is the founder of Linksii. He writes about AI search visibility, brand monitoring across ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini and Perplexity, and the shift from traditional SEO to generative engine optimisation.
ChatGPT shapes purchase decisions for hundreds of millions of users a week. If your brand isn't in its responses, you're invisible to a substantial slice of buyer research. Here's how to track ChatGPT brand mentions systematically — three methods, the signals that matter, and what to do with the data.
Why Your SaaS Brand Vanishes in AI Search Results Your product gets good reviews. People recommend it. You rank on Google. But when someone asks ChatGPT or Perplexity for a tool recommendation in y
One of the greatest challenges for marketers in 2026 is that AI search traffic is often "Dark." Traditional search analytics (like Google Analytics 4) are designed to track clicks from a list of links. However, in the age of ChatGPT and Perplexity,...
In the traditional SEO era, we focused on "Human-Readable" content—making sure our sentences were engaging and our keywords were placed naturally. In 2026, we have a new audience: Reasoning Agents. While humans read for meaning, AI agents read for...
In the legacy web, robots.txt told crawlers what NOT to look at. In 2026, llms.txt tells AI agents exactly WHAT to look at and HOW to interpret it. As Large Language Models (LLMs) seek more efficient ways to ground their responses, the /llms.txt...
In the early days of AI, marketers tried to understand their brand's visibility by manually typing queries into ChatGPT or Claude. This approach is no longer viable in 2026. AI responses are non-deterministic, context-dependent, and constantly...
In 2026, the digital landscape has undergone a fundamental shift from a click-based economy to a citation-based economy. For technical SEOs and content strategists, the most powerful tool in this new era is not the keyword, but the Structured Data...
For decades, the Chief Marketing Officer (CMO) relied on "Market Share" and "Search Share" (Share of Clicks) to measure brand dominance. In 2026, these metrics are incomplete. As AI agents increasingly act as the "Gatekeepers" of information, the...
In 2026, competitive intelligence has moved beyond comparing features and pricing tables. The real question is: How does the AI's internal "World Model" rank you against your peers? Models like Claude 4.6 are highly sophisticated reasoning engines...
In 2026, a brand can rank on the first page of Google and still be completely invisible to AI search engines. This is the AI Visibility Gap. If your content is too "thin" for an LLM to extract facts, or if your site blocks AI crawlers via an...
In 2026, most brand discovery happens in private chat threads. When a user asks ChatGPT, "What's the best tool for tracking my AI visibility?", the AI provides an answer tailored specifically to that user’s context, history, and the model’s current...
In 2026, a brand's greatest reputational threat isn't a bad review—it's a "confident hallucination." Large Language Models (LLMs) like ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini are probabilistic, not deterministic. They don't search for truth; they predict the...
When everyone can generate a 2,000-word article in 10 seconds, the value of generic "Information" drops to zero. In 2026, the only thing that commands a premium is Experience. Google’s E-E-A-T (Experience, Expertise, Authoritativeness, and...
If you look at your Google Analytics 4 (GA4) dashboard and see a 30% drop in organic traffic despite your rankings staying the same, you aren't alone. You are witnessing the AI Displacement Crisis. In 2026, the traditional "Search Engine Results...
In 2026, search is no longer a static index; it is a dynamic retrieval process. When a user asks Perplexity or Gemini a question, the model performs Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG). It searches the live web, pulls "chunks" of information, and...
The traditional SEO funnel—Keyword → Click → Conversion—is no longer the only path to market. We have entered the era of Agentic Search. In 2026, users don't just "search" for a product; they ask an AI agent to "Research and recommend" one. If your...
Generative Engine Optimization (GEO) is the strategic discipline of influencing how Large Language Models (LLMs) and AI Search Engines—such as ChatGPT, Gemini, and Perplexity—perceive, categorize, and cite a brand. For two decades, digital marketing...
AI is now the first stop for millions of purchase decisions. This comprehensive guide explains what AI brand visibility is, why your organic traffic is declining, and exactly what to do about it.
If your brand is invisible in ChatGPT responses, you're losing customers before they ever reach your website. Here's a practical diagnostic guide and step-by-step fix for the most common causes.
How often do brands in your industry actually appear in AI responses? New research reveals citation rates by sector — and the numbers are lower than most marketing teams expect.
Two dedicated AI brand visibility platforms, different approaches. Here's a detailed comparison of Peec.ai and Linksii — including pricing, platform coverage, and the key question of whether data or actionable recommendations matter more to you.
Linksii has been added to the LookAITools directory of 3,000+ AI tools. Here's where to find us, and a quick note on why directory listings still matter for AI tool discovery in 2026.
The search landscape is shifting faster than most marketing teams realise. Here's what Generative Engine Optimization is, why 62% of brands are already feeling the effects, and how to adapt your strategy before the gap compounds.
AI assistants are rapidly replacing traditional search as the primary way people discover brands. If you are not monitoring how ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and Perplexity talk about your brand, you are flying blind.
AI models don't randomly pick which brands to recommend. There's a scoring logic behind every answer. Here's how ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and Perplexity decide which brands make the cut — and what you can do about it.
Enterprise AEO strategies don't work for startups. Here's a practical 30-day playbook for early-stage companies to build AI search visibility without a dedicated SEO team or a six-figure budget.
Understanding the mechanics behind ChatGPT brand recommendations — from web search grounding to training data influence — and what you can do to improve your chances of being recommended.
Not all industries perform equally in AI search. We analysed brand visibility across SaaS, ecommerce, fintech, healthcare, and professional services to reveal which verticals are winning — and which are invisible.
Each AI platform has distinct biases in how it discovers and recommends brands. We break down the differences so you can optimize your visibility where it matters most.
AI Engine Optimization (AIEO) is emerging as the successor to traditional SEO. Learn the strategies that help your brand get discovered and recommended by AI-powered search platforms.
Most brands guess at what prompts to monitor. Here's a structured framework of 50 prompt templates organised by buyer journey stage, with real examples showing how results vary across platforms.
Each AI platform handles brand recommendations differently. Understanding these differences is key to optimizing your visibility across the entire AI search landscape.
AI models can propagate outdated pricing, wrong features, or unfair comparisons at scale. Here's how misinformation enters AI answers, the feedback loops that amplify it, and a step-by-step remediation playbook.
As AI platforms increasingly cite their sources, tracking which URLs get referenced in brand-related queries has become a powerful new dimension of competitive intelligence.
A mention isn't a mention isn't a mention. Being recommended first with enthusiasm is fundamentally different from being listed fifth with caveats. Here's the framework for measuring what actually matters.
Your website content doesn't just attract visitors — it trains the AI models that recommend you to millions of users. Understanding this feedback loop is the key to sustainable AI visibility.
The same brand query in English, German, and Japanese produces wildly different AI recommendations. Here's what international brands need to know about regional AI visibility.
87% of Google top-10 brands are invisible in AI search. But high AI visibility doesn't always correlate with strong SEO either. Here's what we found analysing the relationship between the two channels.
