u/Interesting_humen

I keep seeing people recommend things like:

• Publishing answer-focused content
• Building third-party mentions
• Getting listed in comparison/listicle pages
• Building Reddit presence
• Adding schema
• Improving entity consistency
• Updating existing content

But I'm curious about the actual evidence.

For example, if a brand goes from being cited in 10% of tracked prompts to 30% after three months, how do you know which activity actually caused the increase?

Has anyone run a controlled experiment where they changed one major variable and tracked the impact across ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, Google AI Overviews, etc.?

I'd especially love to hear from people who have actual before/after data.