GEO guide: where to start to become visible in AI search (2026)
What GEO is, how an AI answer is built, and the six steps to start with for your brand. A sourced, no-hype beginner's guide for brands in Turkey.
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How do ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, Claude and Google AI Overview name brands, which sources do they read, and how do you measure it? Every figure comes with its source, date and scope.
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What GEO is, how an AI answer is built, and the six steps to start with for your brand. A sourced, no-hype beginner's guide for brands in Turkey.
11 min read
A GEO report template agencies can deliver to clients every month: scope, count pairs, unmeasured answers, sources, accuracy, period comparison, actions.
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AI reads a seller with no website from marketplace pages. In our measurements, marketplaces were sources on all five engines; what sellers can do about it.
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Your name appearing in an AI answer and your site being cited are separate events. How they differ, how they vary by engine and how to read them in a report.
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Why does one Turkish question bring up different brands on ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, Claude and Google? How engines see the web, what they read, retesting.
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What llms.txt is, what Google says, and whether AI bots really read it. A summary from published documents and log data, without our own measurement.
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Writing rules for quotable content: give the answer in the first sentence, paragraphs that stand alone, sourced figures, an FAQ and server-rendered HTML.
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Google's rules, the end of FAQ rich results and studies that measured the effect on citations: what structured data does for GEO, with Turkish JSON-LD examples.
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If AI says something false about your brand: how to spot it, which source to fix, how to report it to the engines and how to measure the result again.
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What OpenAI, Anthropic, Perplexity and Google bots do, from official docs: a sample robots.txt that blocks training and stays visible in AI search.
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The free scan measures whether AI crawlers can reach your site and whether your pages are quotable. The checklist gathers the same checks on one page.
The basics, how the engines build an answer, and the first steps to being visible in AI search.
Why does one Turkish question bring up different brands on ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, Claude and Google? How engines see the web, what they read, retesting.
11 min read
Writing rules for quotable content: give the answer in the first sentence, paragraphs that stand alone, sourced figures, an FAQ and server-rendered HTML.
10 min read
Seven measurable reasons ChatGPT does not mention a brand: question set, crawler access, JavaScript, off-site sources, namesakes, and being read but not named.
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Technical SEO, content and local search: the ground AI answers are built on.
What llms.txt is, what Google says, and whether AI bots really read it. A summary from published documents and log data, without our own measurement.
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Google's rules, the end of FAQ rich results and studies that measured the effect on citations: what structured data does for GEO, with Turkish JSON-LD examples.
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What OpenAI, Anthropic, Perplexity and Google bots do, from official docs: a sample robots.txt that blocks training and stays visible in AI search.
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Metrics, method and report templates: what we count, and how we say what we could not.
A GEO report template agencies can deliver to clients every month: scope, count pairs, unmeasured answers, sources, accuracy, period comparison, actions.
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Your name appearing in an AI answer and your site being cited are separate events. How they differ, how they vary by engine and how to read them in a report.
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A visibility line drawn from 10 questions a day can swing 20 to 30 points on its own. What is daily tracking for, and over what interval should you read it?
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Complaint sites, forums, press and Wikipedia: where AI reads about your brand.
If AI says something false about your brand: how to spot it, which source to fix, how to report it to the engines and how to measure the result again.
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In AI answers about Turkish brands, is Turkish Wikipedia (Vikipedi) or English Wikipedia cited more? Two measurements gave opposite results; we explain why.
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In our own measurements, AI engines describing Turkish brands cited Şikayetvar, Ekşi Sözlük and marketplaces most. The figures, the limits, what to do.
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