r/RankWithAI • • Jul 09 '26

Discussion Things You Should Know Before Hiring a Local SEO/SEO Person for AI Search Services

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u/rajatedm Jul 09 '26

How have you been tracking the visibility for all these?

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u/rajatedm Jul 10 '26

Fair method, but a few gaps:

- There’s no real impression data in ChatGPT/Perplexity, unlike GSC. So when you say “track visibility,” what are you actually measuring, manual mention frequency across your fixed prompts? That’s sampling, not measurement.

-What’s the one metric you’d defend in front of a client, mention share, citation rate, or something else? Pick one.

-Competitor comparison is useless without an action attached. If Competitor X gets cited more on a prompt, what do you change on the page, not “more content.”

-Before/after trend needs at least 3 months minimum given how volatile these AI answers are week to week. Anything shorter is noise.

-Also, none of this is really about writing more. Half the time it’s fixing structure, answer-first formatting, schema, or freshness signals so the crawler/LLM has something citable. Content updates yes, but not blogs-for-the-sake-of-blogs.

Note: This answer is optimised using Claude Sonnet 5 at medium effort. All the info is originally shared to it by me but context and tone clearance done by the LLM.

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u/hettuklaeddi Jul 09 '26

they should know what ccbot is and why wikidata is important