More bad News for the GEO fabricated "AI researches and trusts brands based on x, y, z criteria" - which to be honest, I doubt they can even admit to - the story they've spun is so long and nonsesnical. However - a study worth looking at from Ahrefs - because so few SEOs (and 0 GEOists) have the tools do this kind of analysis - you know, crawlers, having a copy of the www of pages, rank history in Google. Obviously it validates r/SEO 's held position that to appear in an LLM, you need to rank in Google first, per the Query Fan Out. Some interesting myth debunking GEO Myth: LLMs/AI love "fresh" The average cited page is 500 days old What this all means for being “citable” The 1.4 million prompts paint a pretty clear picture. ChatGPT is an aggressive editor. It favors its general search index, uses semantic similarity to select and cite sources, and treats Reddit as a textbook it’s embarrassed to admit it read.…