The CompareNow.ai Blog
Analysis, trends, and practical playbooks on AI search, GEO, AEO, and AI visibility.
The State of AI Search in 2026
The 2026 evidence on AI search is in: Muck Rack, Semrush, Profound, and Stacker published large-scale citation studies. Earned media supplies 84% of AI links, citations peak on the first question, and each engine reads a different web. What the data shows, and what to do this quarter.
How to Get Cited by ChatGPT: A Practical Playbook
ChatGPT cites differently than Google: only 31.8% of its cited domains overlap with Google's top ten, Wikipedia is its most-cited domain, and brands' own sites earn just 4.3% of category-prompt citations. A practical playbook built on the largest citation studies published to date.
GEO vs SEO: What Actually Changes for Your Team
GEO is an operational change, not a new department. What actually changes for the SEO manager, content lead, and PR owner when a team adds GEO: the new workflows, the KPIs to add, a reporting cadence that fits noisy AI answers, and the overlap evidence for keeping SEO fundamentals intact.
How to Choose an AI Visibility Tool Without Wasting Budget
Verified July 2026 prices for the AI visibility market — free checkers, Otterly at $29, Peec AI at $95, Profound at $99, Trakkr at $100, AthenaHQ at $295, Evertune at $800 — organized by buyer situation, with the engine-gating fine print that decides what each tier really includes.
Why Reddit Is Quietly One of the Most Cited Sources in AI Search
Muck Rack found Reddit is Gemini's top cited domain; Profound found social sources are 19% of Perplexity citations, and separately that social citations overall rise from 5.4% on category prompts to 15% on brand prompts. What the citation data means for your Reddit strategy — and how to earn AI visibility there without getting banned.