HIVEEO v6.2.5
HiveEO User Guide
Get cited in ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity & Claude. The complete guide — free and premium.
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What is AEO? Answer Engine Optimisation is the practice of making your business easy for AI to understand, trust, and cite. Think of it as SEO — but for the AI layer. HiveEO gives you every tool to make that happen.
Why Traditional Content Tools Are No Longer Enough
The digital landscape has fundamentally shifted. Users now turn to AI-powered answer engines — ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, Claude — for direct, authoritative answers. Simply ranking on Google is no longer sufficient. Success depends on whether AI systems know, trust, and cite your brand.
Website owners face a critical problem: they publish consistently but have no idea if their efforts are actually influencing AI responses. They lack a systematic way to establish authority, measure impact, and find the specific gaps where AI ignores them.
HiveEO solves this with a proprietary framework called EPPM:
E — Establish P — Publish P — Probe M — Monetize
🏗 Establish
Entity schema, llms.txt, AI crawler access, author profiles, products, Schema Conflict Detector, Infrastructure tab.
✍️ Publish
Create tab — AEO-optimised blog posts, social copy, FAQ schema. AutoPilot for autonomous publishing. Unlimited BYOK.
🔭 Probe
Citation Gap (Site Scan + Quick Scan), Visibility Tracker. Find exactly where AI ignores you.
💰 Monetize
Growth Nexus outreach CRM, monetization anchor callout block, Action Guide — convert AI visibility into real business relationships and revenue.
Every tab in HiveEO corresponds to a stage of EPPM. The sidebar is your workflow, not just a menu. EPPM was invented by Clifford Williams and belongs to HiveEO — it is the strategic foundation that makes HiveEO different from every other content tool.
In this guide
- 01 · What is HiveEO?
- 02 · The AEO landscape
- 02b · Google’s May 2026 guidance
- 03 · Getting started
- 04 · Dashboard
- 05 · Create tab
- 05b · AutoPilot
- 06 · Citation Gap
- 07 · Visibility Tracker
- 08 · Comments tab
- 09 · Threads tab
- 10 · Products tab
- 11 · Schema tab
- 12 · Infrastructure tab
- 13 · AEO Checklist
- 14 · Action Guide
- 14b · Growth Nexus
- 15 · Settings & API keys
- 16 · Backup & Restore
- 17 · Plan comparison
- 18 · Strategy tips
01
What is HiveEO?
HiveEO is an Answer Engine Optimisation (AEO) toolkit for WordPress. It helps your business show up when people ask AI assistants about your industry — not just when they Google you.
Access it through WP Admin → HiveEO on your WordPress site, or via the shortcode on any page (admin-only by default).
Don’t have a WordPress site?
HiveEO is also available fully hosted at haiv3.com — no plugin install required — as either an ongoing SaaS Monthly subscription or a one-time 10 Day Pass. Both give full access to the same hosted app; the Pass is just a 10-day time-limited version rather than a recurring subscription.
HiveEO covers the full EPPM loop: Establish your entity → Publish AEO-optimised content → Probe whether AI engines are citing you → Monetize the visibility. Everything in the sidebar is organised around this flow.
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The AEO landscape
| Term | What it means | HiveEO covers it? |
|---|---|---|
| SEO | Traditional search engine ranking — Google, Bing blue links | ⚠ Foundation only — schema helps |
| AEO | Answer Engine Optimisation — get cited in AI answers | ✓ Core feature |
| GEO | Generative Engine Optimisation — appear in AI-generated results | ✓ Same as AEO in practice |
| LLMO | LLM Optimisation — how AI reads your brand at entity level | ✓ Schema + entity data |
| AIO | Google AI Overviews visibility | ✓ Schema + FAQ covers this |
| AiPR | AI-powered PR — brand mentions across platforms LLMs cite | ✓ Comments + threads tool |
| VEO | Voice Engine Optimisation — Siri, Alexa, Google Assistant | ⚠ FAQ schema helps — dedicated tool coming |
As of Google’s May 2026 guidance, AEO is officially the next layer of SEO — not a separate discipline. Three signals drive AI citation: Entity clarity, Content authority, and Presence consistency. HiveEO addresses all three.
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What Google Actually Said — and Why HiveEO Was Built For It
On May 15 2026, Google’s Search Central published its clearest statement yet on AEO and GEO. The key message from Danny Sullivan, Google’s Search Liaison:
“AEO and GEO are still SEO. They are the next layer on top of it — not a replacement.”
Google’s official position, May 15 2026. This matters because it tells you exactly what to build on and what to ignore.
What Google explicitly said to ignore for AI Overviews and AI Mode
- llms.txt files — Google does not read or use llms.txt for AI Overviews or AI Mode
- Content chunking — breaking content into AI-readable segments has no effect on Google AI citation
- Special AI-specific schema — there is no schema type that tells Google to include you in AI answers
- Keyword stuffing for AI queries — AI Overviews are not keyword-matched like traditional search
What Google said actually drives AI citation
- E-E-A-T signals — Experience, Expertise, Authoritativeness, Trustworthiness. Real credentials, real author profiles, real business entity data
- FAQ sections — Google’s guide doesn’t single out FAQ schema specifically (it never mentions FAQ), and FAQ rich results were removed from Search on May 7 2026. Well-structured FAQs still help readers and give AI systems a clear, answer-ready block to parse — just not via a dedicated Google-confirmed schema signal
- Entity clarity — Google needs to know unambiguously who you are, what you cover, and why you are credible
- Original reporting — content with a byline, publish date, first-person language, and unique data is more likely to earn a “Highly Cited” badge in AI Overviews
- Consistent presence — sameAs links, structured NAP data, social profiles that confirm your entity across the web
Google’s May 27 2026 additions
🏅 Highly Cited badge
Google now surfaces a “Highly Cited” badge on AI Overview sources that demonstrate original reporting — byline, publish date, unique data or quotes. HiveEO’s Intelligence Suite (coming) includes a Highly Cited readiness signal scoring your content against these markers.
⭐ Preferred Sources
Users can now manually mark Preferred Sources that get surfaced inside their AI Overviews. A new acquisition channel outside ranking — the Action Guide covers how to encourage your audience to add you as a Preferred Source.
💬 Perspectives Carousels
AI responses now include dedicated carousels showing firsthand forum and social discussions. HiveEO’s Threads tab feeds this directly — Reddit and Hacker News engagement creates the community signals these carousels draw from.
🔍 Google AI Mode
A separate Google Search tab that is almost entirely AI-generated answers. No blue links. HiveEO’s roadmap includes Google AI Mode as a 4th probe target alongside ChatGPT, Gemini, and Perplexity.
Why HiveEO aligns with Google’s actual guidance
Most AEO tools on the market were built around 2024-era assumptions — llms.txt, content chunking, AI-specific schema. Google has now explicitly said none of those things affect AI Overviews or AI Mode.
HiveEO was built around what Google actually said matters: FAQPage schema on every post, entity data with sameAs links, E-E-A-T signals through author profiles and product descriptions, Citation Gap scanning that identifies specific gaps rather than generic keyword lists, and community presence through the Threads and Comments tools. Every core feature maps to a signal Google confirmed is real.
Competitors selling llms.txt optimisation and content chunking are now visibly behind the curve. HiveEO is the only AEO tool built around Google’s actual May 2026 documentation.
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Getting started
1 · Install & activate
Install free from wordpress.org/plugins/hiveeo or upload the zip via Plugins → Add New → Upload. Activate.
2 · Get a free Gemini API key
Go to aistudio.google.com — create a free API key. No billing required.
3 · Fill in your business details
Settings → Business Profile. Brand name, description (factual, no hype), site URL, industry tags, social profiles.
4 · Add your products and services
Products tab → add each product or course with a factual description and 3–5 FAQ entries. Only add genuine products — blog posts dilute your entity schema.
5 · Run your first Citation Gap scan
Probe → Citation Gap → Quick Scan. See immediately which queries AI is ignoring you for. These are your content priorities.
6 · Fix a gap
Click “✍ Fix this gap →” on any result. Pre-fills the Create tab with the gap question and AI’s current answer as context. Generate a better, more authoritative post.
After uploading a new version: Always clear your Hummingbird Pro cache — Hummingbird → Caching → Page Caching → Clear Cache. Hard reload with Ctrl+Shift+R.
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Dashboard
Optimization Score card
An amber ring showing your 0–100 AEO Score with a sparkline trend over the last 30 days. Three category bars (Setup / Entity / Presence). The Citation Gap section below shows your citation rate ring, three stats (Gaps / Cited / Queries), and your top gap with a one-click Fix button.
Top Products card
Your saved products with schema ON/OFF status and FAQ counts.
Schema Conflicts card
Live count of SEO plugins that may conflict with HiveEO schema. Links to the full Infrastructure report.
AutoPilot
Autonomous publishing engine. Reads your Citation Gap bank, generates a full post, publishes to WordPress, distributes to all connected social platforms. Configure in AutoPilot → Content Settings.
Your citation rate ring turning green is the headline metric.
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Create tab free
Generate complete blog posts with FAQs, schema, and social copy. Unlimited, BYOK, no generation caps.
✍ New post
Enter a topic and target query. HiveEO writes a complete article with FAQs, meta title, meta description, social copy, hashtags, and image prompt.
↻ Repurpose existing
Paste content or a URL. HiveEO rewrites it into a fresh AEO-optimised post.
📱 Social copy
Every generation includes LinkedIn, Facebook, Instagram, Pinterest, Telegram, and X copy. Platform-specific formatting — proper line breaks, no markdown asterisks.
💾 Save with schema
Creates a real WordPress post with Article/BlogPosting and FAQPage schema automatically.
🔁 Recent Work
Every generated post saved with full content. Open any entry to restore back into the Create tab exactly as it was.
🎯 Entity grounding
The “What is this entity?” field tells AI exactly what your brand is. Fetch description auto-pulls page meta.
🎙 NotebookLM Studio v6.x
Every published post can be exported to Google’s NotebookLM for audio/video overview generation. Found at the bottom of the Create tab.
📤 Export
Sends your post URL to NotebookLM. Generate an Audio or Video Overview there, then download it.
📥 Import
Import the downloaded file back. The row updates immediately — no page reload. Action buttons appear.
📺 Post to YouTube
Uploads the video to your connected YouTube channel. Automatically: sets your featured image as thumbnail, embeds the video into the article after the second paragraph, sends a “🎥 New video” alert to LinkedIn and Telegram.
📱 Post to Reels
Appears on imported video files when Instagram is connected.
Connecting YouTube
Go to Platforms tab → Developer App Keys → enter your Google Client ID and Client Secret → click Connect YouTube. A Google consent screen appears — choose the correct channel on that consent screen. If you have Brand Account channels (multiple channels under one Google login), select the right one there. In Google Cloud Console: enable YouTube Data API v3, add https://yourdomain.com/wp-json/hiveeo/v1/oauth-callback as an Authorised Redirect URI. Token refresh happens automatically.
The full YouTube loop: Article published → Export to NotebookLM → Generate overview → Download → Import → Post to YouTube. The video description includes your article URL. The video embeds into the article after the second paragraph. LinkedIn and Telegram get an alert. One piece of content becomes four touchpoints across four platforms.
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AutoPilot Premium
Your autonomous AEO publishing engine. Runs on a schedule without you logging in or clicking anything.
How each run works
- Gets a topic — either the highest-priority uncovered gap from your Citation Gap bank, or the next unused line from your Manual Topics list, depending on which Content Mode you’ve selected (see below)
- Generates a complete post — article, FAQ section, schema, featured image, social copy
- Publishes to WordPress with full Article + FAQPage schema
- Posts social copy immediately to all connected platforms
- Marks the topic as used, so the next run picks up where this one left off
⚙ Content Settings
Publishing frequency, image generation, campaign-level callout URL override.
🎨 Image styles
Seven rotating styles — photorealistic, isometric 3D, futuristic digital art, flat design, cinematic, minimalist geometric, editorial cartoon. Rotates deterministically per topic.
📱 Social Backfill
AutoPilot → Performance tab → Schedule Social Backfill. Sends AI-generated social copy for old posts — one per day at 7pm UTC. Skips drafts and posts with no featured image.
⚡ Gap bank empty?
AutoPilot pauses when the gap bank runs out. Run a fresh Quick Scan from Probe → Citation Gap to replenish it.
Content Mode: Citation Gap vs Manual Topic
AutoPilot → Content → Content Mode controls where topics come from. This is a genuinely different workflow depending on which you pick — not a cosmetic setting.
🔭 Citation Gap mode
The default. Pulls from your Citation Gap bank — topics discovered by Quick Scan / Site Scan. Pauses and asks you to run a fresh scan once the bank is exhausted.
✍️ Manual Topic mode
Pulls from a plain textarea — one topic per line, in Content Settings. AutoPilot works through the list top to bottom, marking each topic used as it’s written, so it never repeats one until the list is exhausted. Use this when you want full control over exactly what gets written, instead of letting Quick Scan decide.
The “Run AutoPilot Now” Topic field is a one-off override, not the same as your Manual Topics list. Fill it in and that run writes about exactly that topic, once, ignoring your saved list entirely. Leave it blank and it pulls the next topic from your Manual Topics list (or Citation Gap bank, depending on mode) — same behavior as a scheduled run, just triggered manually.
Campaign tracking
AutoPilot → Campaign is a separate, independent layer from Content Mode — it doesn’t decide what gets written, it just counts and labels what AutoPilot produces. Give it a name, a start date, and a target post count, and the progress bar tracks how many posts have been created since that date, regardless of which Content Mode generated them.
📊 Target Posts matters
Leaving this at the default of 1 makes the progress bar hit 100% almost immediately and become meaningless. Set it to your actual goal.
📅 Start date matters
Progress counts by post date, not by which campaign was active when a post was made. Backdating a new campaign’s start date into a period where old posts already exist will incorrectly count them toward the new campaign.
🗂 Past Campaigns
Saving a new campaign name automatically archives the outgoing one — name, dates, and final post count — into a Past Campaigns table. Nothing is lost when you switch.
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Citation Gap free
Find exactly where AI should cite you — but doesn’t. Found under Probe → Citation Gap.
🌐 Site Scan
Crawls your sitemap, generates 3 probe questions per page, checks Gemini. Up to 100 pages, one scan per 12 hours.
⚡ Quick Scan
Generates probe queries from all your Products and Settings — no crawling needed. Runs in 30–60 seconds. Uses all products, courses prioritised first.
Gap task queue
- ✍ Fix this gap → — marks as In progress, navigates to Create tab with question pre-filled
- ↩ Resume in Create → — re-fires if you navigated away
- ↺ Reset — reverts an in-progress item back to gap
- ✓ Mark resolved — strikes through after publishing
Use “↩ Resume existing scan” not “🔄 Fresh scan” — resume preserves your gaps, fresh scan archives everything.
No competitor does this
HiveEO is the only tool that derives probe queries from your actual site content and products, tracks gaps as a persistent task queue, and archives the citation rate trend over time — automatically.
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AI Visibility Tracker free
Probe specific queries on demand and log whether your brand is cited.
Result symbols
- ✓ — cited
- ✕ — not cited
- ⚠ — inconclusive (timeout or API error — re-run for a clean result)
- — — engine not configured
Gemini free
Free API key at aistudio.google.com. Required for Citation Gap — add this one first.
ChatGPT BYOK
OpenAI API key required (separate from ChatGPT subscription).
Perplexity BYOK
Perplexity API key from docs.perplexity.ai.
Delete log entries
Click Delete on any log entry to remove it permanently. Deletions persist — entries will not reappear on page reload.
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Comments tab free
Reddit, LinkedIn, Facebook, and YouTube are among the highest-cited domains by LLMs. The Comments tab generates style-matched comments that answer the thread question genuinely and mention your product naturally.
💬 Promote mode free
Answers the thread question first, mentions your product naturally in the last third.
🛡 Brand Defence paid
Responds to negative posts professionally. Corrects inaccuracies politely.
Always review before posting. Never post verbatim without reading it first.
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Threads tab free
Finds live discussions on Reddit and Hacker News related to your niche. Thread seeding feeds Google’s Perspectives Carousel.
Reddit threads are fetched directly by your browser — the same approach that has worked since the original version. Hacker News is always available as a fallback. Click ⚡ Live threads to fetch current discussions. Click Use this → to pre-fill the Create tab and generate a targeted response post.
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Products tab free
Every product gets its own structured data block and becomes available in Citation Gap Quick Scan (all products, courses first), the comment generator, and Create tab entity picker.
❓ FAQ entries free
3–5 Q&A pairs per product. Powers FAQPage schema and gives AI systems a clear, answer-ready block to parse — note Google’s own May 2026 guide doesn’t call out FAQ schema specifically, and FAQ rich results were removed from Search in May 2026.
⚡ Auto-fill from URL paid
Paste a URL, HiveEO fetches and pre-fills the product form.
✦ AI generate paid
Gemini writes description, keywords, key features, and FAQs from your product name and URL.
⬡ Sitemap importer paid
Bulk-add pages from your sitemap XML.
⚠ Products vs blog posts
Only add genuine products, services, courses, and tools. Blog posts added here dilute your entity schema. Course lesson parts with their own URLs are correct to include. Write factual descriptions — this is what AI engines quote.
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Schema tab free
HiveEO outputs Organisation, WebSite with SearchAction, Article/BlogPosting, and FAQPage schema. Auto-inject available or copy manually.
Schema conflict auto-detection
Detects when Yoast, Rank Math, AIOSEO, SmartCrawl, SEOPress, or The SEO Framework is already outputting FAQPage schema and silently skips injection. Infrastructure → Schema Conflicts shows the full sitewide report.
FAQ schema requires visible FAQs on the page. If FAQPage schema exists but no FAQ section is visible, Google ignores the schema.
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Infrastructure tab free
🤖 AI Bots
Shows which AI crawlers are allowed or blocked by your live robots.txt. Colour-coded green/red.
📄 llms.txt editor
Edit and preview your /llms.txt. Note: Google has stated AI Overviews don’t use llms.txt — treat it as infrastructure for other AI systems.
📈 Entity Strength
Scores entity completeness across six dimensions: Identity, Presence, Content, Social, Technical, Trust.
⚠ Schema Conflicts
Sitewide plugin conflict scan with risk levels and fix instructions.
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AEO Checklist free
Each tick increases your AEO Score. Free plan includes Setup, Entity, and Presence (12 items).
| Category | What’s covered |
|---|---|
| Setup ✓ | Brand name, description, tags, API key |
| Entity ✓ | Products, FAQs, schema types |
| Presence ✓ | Google Business, directories, LinkedIn |
| Content | About page, product pages, social proof |
| Community | Forums, comments, thread replies |
| Google AI | Schema, FAQ, Search Console, CWV |
| ChatGPT | High-DA mentions, Reddit, Wikipedia |
| Perplexity | Fresh content, niche pubs, author bios |
| Copilot | Bing Webmaster Tools, IndexNow |
| Meta AI | Facebook page, Groups, comments |
| Voice (VEO) | Conversational FAQs, speakable schema |
| Claude | Long-form content, LinkedIn, GitHub |
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Action Guide
📘 Module 1 — Establish free
Define Your Entity, Set Up Your Schema, NAP Consistency, Author Authority.
📗 Module 2 — Publish paid
Content strategy for AEO — Create tab workflow, Citation Gap as a content calendar.
📙 Module 3 — Probe paid
Using Citation Gap and Visibility Tracker to measure and improve citation rate over time.
📕 Module 4 — Monetize paid
Affiliate callouts, product schema, the EPPM flywheel, Growth Nexus outreach.
📌 Your Monetization Anchor
A lesson in Module 4. One URL (set in Settings as “Callout / Affiliate URL”) powers two placements in every generated article: a natural inline mention in the body, and a styled green callout block near the FAQs. Override per post in Create tab, or per campaign in AutoPilot Content Settings. One field — the label changes depending on which screen you’re on.
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Growth Nexus Premium
Found under Monetize → Growth Nexus. The human layer of EPPM.
AEO is not the beginning and end of online marketing. AI engines are trained on human behaviour — what humans link to, share, and recommend. EPPM handles the machine side. Growth Nexus handles the human side: the relationships, backlinks, guest posts, and community mentions that tell AI engines your authority is real.
As AI-generated content floods the web, human signals become more valuable, not less. One targeted outreach email to a relevant website is worth a hundred generic blasts.
🔍 AI Prospector
Enter a niche and Gemini searches the live web using Google Search grounding. Returns prospects with name, URL, email, description, and relevance score. Suggested niches pre-fill from your Citation Gap bank.
🤝 Outreach & Backlinks
Your CRM. Each prospect has an Outreach Editor (AI-generated email, opens in Desktop Mail / Gmail / Outlook) and a Backlink Strategy tab (three specific collaboration angles). Pipeline: New → Contacted → Replied → Backlink Secured.
📈 Network Analytics
Total prospects, outreach sent, response rate, backlinks secured. 7-day activity chart and pipeline distribution view. Export all prospects as JSON.
❓ Help & Guide
Full workflow explanation — from first scan to securing a backlink — with the rationale for why human outreach compounds AEO authority.
AEO gets you cited by machines. Growth Nexus gets you noticed by humans. You need both.
The HAiV3 ecosystem: Create → Publish → Probe → Amplify with Growth Nexus → Authority that compounds. Growth Nexus is the amplifier.
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Settings & API keys
🏷 Business Profile
Brand name, type, description, URL, founding year, founder, location, industry tags. Foundation for all generation prompts.
🔗 Social & authority profiles
LinkedIn, YouTube, Twitter/X, Facebook, Crunchbase, Wikidata. Goes into sameAs schema.
🔑 API Keys
Gemini (free, required), OpenAI (optional), Perplexity (optional). Stored in your WP database. Sent directly to the provider — never via haiv3.com.
🏷 Saved entities
Reusable library of brands and products you write about. Pick one on the Create tab to auto-fill entity fields.
Gemini API key — required, free. Get one at aistudio.google.com — no billing required.
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Backup & Restore free
Export all HiveEO data as JSON and restore it anywhere. Found in Settings → scroll to the bottom.
Included in backup
Business settings, products, checklist state, entities, threads, comment log, visibility probes, score history, Citation Gap history, scan history, Recent Work.
Not included
API keys (security — re-enter after restore). OAuth tokens (re-connect platforms). Growth Nexus prospects (use the Export button in Network Analytics).
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Plan comparison
| Feature | Free (WP.org) | Premium |
|---|---|---|
| Create tab | ||
| AI post generator + repurposer | ✅ Unlimited BYOK | ✅ |
| Social copy + A/B hooks | ✅ | ✅ |
| Article + FAQPage schema on save | ✅ | ✅ |
| Recent Work | ✅ | ✅ |
| NotebookLM Studio | — | ✅ |
| YouTube OAuth + upload + thumbnail + embed | — | ✅ |
| Direct social posting (OAuth) | — | ✅ |
| AutoPilot | ||
| Autonomous publishing on schedule | — | ✅ |
| Social Backfill (skips drafts + no-image posts) | — | ✅ |
| AI platform-specific social copy | — | ✅ |
| Citation Gap | ||
| Quick Scan (all products, courses first) | ✅ | ✅ |
| Site Scan — 100 pages, 12hr cooldown | ✅ | ✅ |
| Gap task queue + resume + scan history | ✅ | ✅ |
| AI Visibility Tracker | ||
| Gemini probing | ✅ Unlimited BYOK | ✅ |
| ChatGPT + Perplexity probing | BYOK | BYOK |
| Delete log entries (persistent) | ✅ | ✅ |
| Brand Defence | — | ✅ |
| Growth Nexus | ||
| AI Prospector | — | ✅ |
| Outreach & Backlinks CRM | — | ✅ |
| Network Analytics | — | ✅ |
| Other | ||
| AEO Checklist | 3 categories (12 items) | All categories |
| Action Guide | Module 1 (Establish) | All 4 modules |
| Backup & Restore | ✅ | ✅ |
| White-label (Agency) | — | ✅ Agency plan |
| Intelligence Suite (Elite) | — | Coming soon |
Prices: Single $6.99/mo ($49.99/yr) · Studio $16.99/mo ($129.99/yr) · Agency $32.99/mo ($249.99/yr) · Agency+ $52.99/mo ($399.99/yr) · SaaS $9/mo (increasing to $19/mo after September 1, 2026) · 10 Day Pass $7 (increasing to $12 after September 1, 2026)
Ready to go Premium?
Unlock AutoPilot, Growth Nexus, NotebookLM Studio, YouTube integration, Brand Defence, and the full Action Guide.
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Strategy tips
Your 0% citation rate is your starting point — not a failure
Every site starts at 0%. The gaps from your first Site Scan are your content calendar. Each gap is a question someone is already asking AI and AI is not citing you for yet.
Own your own territory first
Fix gaps about your own brand and products before attacking competitive queries. If AI doesn’t cite you for your own products, entity authority needs work first.
The single most important thing
Write factual, plain-English descriptions for every product. AI engines quote clear, accurate statements — not marketing copy.
The citation loop
Scan → find gaps → generate post → publish → wait 1–2 weeks → re-scan. Watch the citation rate climb. This is EPPM in practice.
Community comments compound
Reddit, LinkedIn, Facebook, and YouTube are among the highest-cited domains by LLMs. Five genuine, helpful comments outweighs most technical on-page optimisation.
YouTube is now part of your AEO workflow
NotebookLM turns articles into audio/video. Post to YouTube closes the loop — video goes to YouTube with your article URL, embeds back into the article after the second paragraph, LinkedIn and Telegram get an alert. One piece of content, four touchpoints across four platforms.
Outreach after authority, not before
Use Growth Nexus once you have 10+ published posts and citation coverage. Outreach from a site being cited by Gemini as an authority converts far better than outreach from a site with no content.
Different engines, different strategies
ChatGPT weights Reddit and high-authority sites. Gemini weights structured data and YouTube. Perplexity weights fresh content. Copilot weights Bing-indexed pages.
Track the rate, not the raw count
0% to 31% in 6 weeks is the compelling story. The citation ring turning from red to amber to green is your evidence. Screenshot it.
💡 The rule
Most sites have zero schema, zero FAQ entries, zero community presence, and zero citation gap data. Completing the first three checklist categories puts you ahead of the vast majority of competitors in AI search. Start there.
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