AI Citation Traffic Is Invisible to Marketers
Marketers and SEO professionals have no reliable way to track when their content is cited by AI assistants like ChatGPT, Perplexity, or Gemini. This traffic gets misattributed to direct or dark social, leaving an entire growing channel unmanaged. As AI search becomes a dominant discovery method, the measurement gap creates compounding strategy errors.
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