Customers no longer browse Google. They ask ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Gemini for recommendations. TopCited makes sure your products get recommended first.
Get Your Free AI Visibility Audit →When a customer asks an LLM "recommend a good camera," the AI's answer is almost entirely determined by search engine retrieval order. Products at the bottom of retrieval have a 0% chance of being recommended.
ChatGPT processes 2.5 billion queries per day. Consumers are replacing "Google it" with "ask AI." If your product isn't optimized for AI search, you're losing customers every day.
Traditional SEO gets you into Google results. But LLMs re-rank and synthesize those results before showing them to users. Your Google ranking doesn't guarantee an AI recommendation.
Keywords, backlinks, and meta tags don't influence how LLMs rank products. Until now, there was no systematic way to improve your visibility in AI-powered search.
TopCited uses peer-reviewed optimization methods to restructure your product content so that AI systems rank it higher in their recommendations.
We query every major LLM (ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, Perplexity) with your target search terms and measure exactly where your products appear in AI recommendations — or if they appear at all.
Using our research-backed CORE methodology, we optimize your product descriptions, reviews, and supporting content to align with how LLMs reason about and rank products.
LLMs update constantly. We continuously track your AI visibility across all major platforms and re-optimize when rankings change, keeping you at the top.
Generative engine optimization (GEO) is the practice of optimizing your content so that AI-powered search engines — like ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, and Claude — recommend your products or content first. As consumers shift from traditional search engines to asking AI directly, GEO is becoming as essential as SEO was in the Google era.
Traditional SEO optimizes for search engine crawlers using keywords, backlinks, and technical signals. GEO optimizes for how large language models synthesize, reason about, and rank information when generating recommendations. The ranking factors are fundamentally different — LLMs evaluate content coherence, comparative reasoning, and contextual relevance, not keyword density or link authority.
TopCited uses CORE (Controlling Output Rankings in Generative Engines), a peer-reviewed optimization methodology developed at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. We analyze how major LLMs process your product content, then optimize descriptions using reasoning-based and review-based strategies that align with how AI systems rank products.
No — TopCited complements your existing SEO. Most LLMs use Google or Bing for initial retrieval before synthesizing their own rankings. You need traditional SEO to be retrieved and GEO to be ranked favorably in the AI's final recommendation. TopCited handles the GEO layer that traditional SEO tools cannot address.
TopCited optimizes for all major LLMs with search capabilities: ChatGPT (GPT-4o), Google Gemini, Anthropic Claude, Perplexity, and Grok. Our methodology is model-agnostic and has been validated across all four major platforms with consistent results.
TopCited takes a white-hat approach, analogous to legitimate SEO practices. We help businesses write clearer, more informative product content that AI systems can better understand and evaluate. We do not inject hidden prompts, adversarial text, or deceptive content. Our research is published openly and our methods produce fluent, natural language that improves the quality of product descriptions.
TopCited is built on research from the DREAM Lab at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, led by Prof. Haohan Wang. The team has published extensively at top AI venues (NeurIPS, ICLR, ICML) on trustworthy AI systems. The underlying CORE methodology is peer-reviewed and benchmarked on 3,000 real products across 15 categories.
We'll audit your top 10 products across ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, and Perplexity — and show you exactly where you rank. Free, no commitment.
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