# earned media: AI Visibility Guides
> Cite Solutions briefs tagged "earned media". 16 posts on AI visibility, GEO, AEO, and AI search optimization.

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# #earned media

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[Jul 24Press Release SEO: Does AI Cite Press Releases?Press release SEO now means getting cited by AI. New data shows 99.3% of syndicated releases get cited, in about 8 hours. Here is the catch.Strategy·9 min readStrategy9m](/blog/press-release-seo-ai-citations)[Jul 15Does Reddit SEO Actually Get You Cited by AI?Reddit SEO is a citation game now, not a ranking game. Reddit shows up in nearly 1 in 5 AI answers. Here is what earns citations and what gets you banned.Strategy·9 min readStrategy9m](/blog/reddit-seo-get-cited-by-ai)[Jul 2Where Do AI Citations Come From? The DataWhere do AI citations come from? A 6.8M-citation study found 86% come from sources brands already control, not forums like Reddit. Here is the map.AI Visibility·10 min readAI Visibility10m](/blog/where-do-ai-citations-come-from)[Jul 1Digital PR for AI Search: How to Get Cited by AIDigital PR for AI search means earning brand mentions on the third-party sources AI models trust. Here is the 2026 playbook, with real citation data.GEO Strategy·10 min readGEO Strategy10m](/blog/digital-pr-for-ai-search)[Jun 7Do Backlinks Still Matter for AI Search?Ahrefs studied 75,000 brands: backlinks correlate with AI visibility at 0.218, brand mentions at 0.664\. Here is where your link budget should go now.Strategy·10 min readStrategy10m](/blog/do-backlinks-still-matter-for-ai-search)[Jun 2Does Reddit Help You Get AI Citations?Reddit drives about 24% of Perplexity's citations but 0.1% of the Gemini app's. Reddit AEO only pays off in some AI engines. Here is the map.Industry Data·9 min readIndustry Data9m](/blog/does-reddit-help-ai-citations)[May 26Will Fake AI Citations Reshape Your Visibility?The Lancet audit shows fake AI citations multiplied 10x in three years. AI engines are about to filter sources harder. Here's what that means for B2B brands.Industry Data·10 min readIndustry Data10m](/blog/ai-fake-citations-verifiable-source-shift)[May 23Why Doesn't ChatGPT Cite Your Brand Blog?Muck Rack found 94% of AI citations come from earned media. 5W analyzed 680 million citations across five AI engines. Here is why brand blogs lose.AI Visibility·11 min readAI Visibility11m](/blog/why-chatgpt-skips-your-brand-blog)[May 20How to Earn a Wikipedia Page for AI CitationsWikipedia powers 47.9% of ChatGPT's top citations. Most B2B SaaS brands have no page. Here is the notability playbook that actually works.Practical GEO·9 min readPractical GEO9m](/blog/wikipedia-ai-citations-b2b-saas-playbook)[May 19Reddit + YouTube Are 78% of AI Social CitationsReddit and YouTube drive 78.2% of AI social media citations. Most B2B SaaS brands invest in the other 22%. Here's the recalibration.Industry Data·10 min readIndustry Data10m](/blog/reddit-youtube-78-percent-ai-social-citations)[May 18AI Citation Concentration Is Worse Than PageRankA new audit of 680M AI citations found 15 domains capture 68% of all references, and Wikipedia owns 47.9% of ChatGPT top-10 sources.Research·9 min readResearch9m](/blog/ai-citation-concentration-worse-than-pagerank)[May 13Why Reviews Now Drive 75x More AI CitationsA Trustpilot study of 800K AI answers across ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity and Google AI Mode found brands with reviews get cited 75x more often.Research·10 min readResearch10m](/blog/trustpilot-reviews-ai-citation-lift-75x)[May 9Why ChatGPT Cites 5 Sources but Claude Cites 13Muck Rack analyzed 25M links across ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini. Citation rates: 96%, 55%, 82%. Source counts: 5, 13, 8\. Each platform retrieves differently.Research·10 min readResearch10m](/blog/chatgpt-claude-gemini-citation-density-gap)[May 3When the Query Is Fresh, AI Visibility Becomes a PR ProblemNew citation research suggests AI answer engines use one source stack for evergreen questions and another for fresh ones. When the prompt is time-sensitive, journalism and recency-rich coverage take a much larger share. That changes who should own visibility during launches, announcements, and category-defining moments.Strategy·8 min readStrategy8m](/blog/fresh-query-ai-visibility-pr-problem)[May 3A Brand With Zero Domain Authority Ranked Top-3 in ChatGPT in 14 Days. Here Is the Playbook.Otterly.ai built a fictional GEO agency with 7 pages, no schema, and zero domain authority. Then they built 16 off-page citations across 14 days. The result was rank #7 against established competitors, top-3 in ChatGPT, position 2 in Google AI Overviews, and 90 brand mentions. Here is the exact placement mix, the platform-by-platform breakdown, and what the 74% prompt-specificity finding means for content teams.GEO Strategy·10 min readGEO Strategy10m](/blog/off-page-citation-placement-zero-domain-authority)[Apr 10Brand Authority Is the Strongest Predictor of AI Citations. Most B2B Teams Are Optimizing the Wrong Thing.Brand web mentions correlate with AI citation frequency at 0.664\. Brand search volume comes in at 0.334\. Both beat backlinks and content quality scores. A Omniscient Digital analysis of 23,000+ citations found 89% came from earned media, not owned channels. Here's what the data means for B2B strategy.Research·9 min readResearch9m](/blog/brand-authority-ai-citations-strongest-predictor)

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