REPLIES R1 Citation patterns in ChatGPT are not backlink signals in new packaging. Pages that get cited consistently have dense entity co-occurrence — your brand appearing alongside established topic entities in the same semantic neighborhood — plus clean schema markup that tells crawlers what the page is , not just what it says . You can have DA 80 and still get skipped by every AI answer engine. Authority without entity clarity is invisible to LLMs. R2 Hot take: most GEO checklists are just SEO checklists with a new header. The real shift is from keyword density to brand salience in training corpora. LLMs don't retrieve based on what you rank for — they retrieve based on how frequently and authoritatively your entity appears across the web at training time. If your brand isn't embedded in enough reference documents, no amount of on-page work changes that. Corpus presence is the new domain authority. R3 We have no agreed-upon AI visibility metric and that problem is being papered over.…