https://trackbase.ai/blog Guides, comparisons and research on AI visibility and GEO: how brands get mentioned and cited by ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude and Perplexity. en Tue, 22 Sep 2026 07:09:20 +0000 trackbase.ai tools/generate-static-files.py https://trackbase.ai/blog/best-ai-visibility-tools-for-marketers-what-actually-matters https://trackbase.ai/blog/best-ai-visibility-tools-for-marketers-what-actually-matters Mon, 14 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Levi Bouman Most AI visibility tools promise the same thing. Here is what marketers should actually check before choosing one, from prompt-level tracking to sentiment and refresh speed. https://trackbase.ai/blog/semrush-hubspot-vs-dedicated-ai-visibility-platform https://trackbase.ai/blog/semrush-hubspot-vs-dedicated-ai-visibility-platform Mon, 14 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Bodrik Bakker AI models often recommend Semrush or HubSpot for tracking AI visibility. Here is what those tools actually cover, and when a dedicated GEO platform is worth the switch. https://trackbase.ai/blog/trackbase-vs-profound-which-ai-visibility-platform-should-you-choose https://trackbase.ai/blog/trackbase-vs-profound-which-ai-visibility-platform-should-you-choose Thu, 10 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Bodrik Bakker Comparing Trackbase and Profound for AI visibility tracking: pricing, competitor analysis, sentiment and which platform fits smaller teams and agencies best. https://trackbase.ai/blog/the-5-geo-metrics-that-actually-matter-for-ai-search-visibility https://trackbase.ai/blog/the-5-geo-metrics-that-actually-matter-for-ai-search-visibility Thu, 10 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Levi Bouman Visibility Score, Share of Voice, citations, sentiment and position: the five metrics that show whether your GEO strategy is actually working. https://trackbase.ai/blog/how-do-i-know-if-ai-recommends-my-products-or-services https://trackbase.ai/blog/how-do-i-know-if-ai-recommends-my-products-or-services Tue, 08 Sep 2026 16:43:29 +0000 Levi Bouman A single ChatGPT check tells you nothing. Learn how to build a repeatable test to know if AI models actually recommend, cite, or ignore your brand. https://trackbase.ai/blog/how-do-i-compare-ai-visibility-against-competitors https://trackbase.ai/blog/how-do-i-compare-ai-visibility-against-competitors Tue, 08 Sep 2026 16:43:29 +0000 Bodrik Bakker Comparing AI visibility to competitors takes more than one lucky ChatGPT answer. Here is how to measure Share of Voice, position and sentiment gaps properly. https://trackbase.ai/blog/ai-search-engines-are-becoming-purchase-channels-why-your-brand-needs-visibility-now https://trackbase.ai/blog/ai-search-engines-are-becoming-purchase-channels-why-your-brand-needs-visibility-now Fri, 04 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Bodrik Bakker More and more people no longer type their purchase questions into Google, but into ChatGPT, Claude or Perplexity. New industry research shows how fast that behaviour is changing, and what it means for brands that depend on being found online. https://trackbase.ai/blog/enterprise-ai-brand-reputation-monitoring https://trackbase.ai/blog/enterprise-ai-brand-reputation-monitoring Thu, 13 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Bodrik Bakker Prompt portfolios, response audit trails, alert routing and the Copilot blind spot: the architecture large organizations use to monitor AI answers at scale. https://trackbase.ai/blog/monitor-changes-in-ai-answers-over-time https://trackbase.ai/blog/monitor-changes-in-ai-answers-over-time Mon, 10 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Levi Bouman AI answers drift as models retrain and sources change. How to store responses, separate signal from noise and build the routine that catches shifts early. https://trackbase.ai/blog/ai-visibility-content-gap-analysis https://trackbase.ai/blog/ai-visibility-content-gap-analysis Fri, 07 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Levi Bouman Find the prompts your brand is losing because the winning content is not yours. A timed four-step process, from prompt list to ranked build list. https://trackbase.ai/blog/geo-metrics-that-matter https://trackbase.ai/blog/geo-metrics-that-matter Tue, 04 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Levi Bouman Presence rate, Share of Voice, citations, sentiment, AI referrals and crawler activity: the seven numbers that cover Generative Engine Optimization on one page. https://trackbase.ai/blog/ai-visibility-vs-seo https://trackbase.ai/blog/ai-visibility-vs-seo Sat, 01 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Bodrik Bakker SEO ranks pages, AI models recommend brands. The five structural differences, the metric mapping between the two, and why you still need both. https://trackbase.ai/blog/how-to-measure-ai-share-of-voice https://trackbase.ai/blog/how-to-measure-ai-share-of-voice Wed, 29 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Levi Bouman AI Share of Voice tells you who is winning the market conversation inside ChatGPT and Gemini. The formula, the benchmarks and the four moves that improve it. https://trackbase.ai/blog/how-ai-assistants-decide-which-brands-to-recommend https://trackbase.ai/blog/how-ai-assistants-decide-which-brands-to-recommend Sun, 26 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Levi Bouman Training data, live retrieval, authority and consensus: the four forces behind every AI brand recommendation, and which lever to pull for each. https://trackbase.ai/blog/fix-what-ai-gets-wrong-about-your-brand https://trackbase.ai/blog/fix-what-ai-gets-wrong-about-your-brand Thu, 23 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Levi Bouman AI models spread outdated facts, fabrications and entity confusion about brands. A source-first process to find the errors, fix them and verify the improvement. https://trackbase.ai/blog/best-ai-visibility-tools https://trackbase.ai/blog/best-ai-visibility-tools Mon, 20 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Levi Bouman We compared 15 tools that track brand visibility in ChatGPT, Gemini and Perplexity. Pricing, model coverage and honest watch outs, including for our own platform. https://trackbase.ai/blog/track-what-chatgpt-says-about-your-company https://trackbase.ai/blog/track-what-chatgpt-says-about-your-company Fri, 17 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Levi Bouman A six-step method to track your brand across ChatGPT and 10 other AI models: build a prompt library, score your visibility, and turn the results into action. https://trackbase.ai/blog/best-profound-alternatives https://trackbase.ai/blog/best-profound-alternatives Tue, 14 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Bodrik Bakker Profound is built for enterprise budgets. These 9 alternatives track your brand in ChatGPT, Gemini and Perplexity from 29 to 300 euros per month. Compared honestly. https://trackbase.ai/blog/trackbase-vs-profound https://trackbase.ai/blog/trackbase-vs-profound Sat, 11 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Bodrik Bakker An honest comparison between Trackbase and Profound: model coverage, pricing, shopping tracking and who each platform is actually for. https://trackbase.ai/blog/ai-visibility-for-agencies-how-to-offer-geo-tracking-as-a-service https://trackbase.ai/blog/ai-visibility-for-agencies-how-to-offer-geo-tracking-as-a-service Wed, 08 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Bodrik Bakker Clients will soon ask why ChatGPT doesn't recommend them. Learn how agencies package AI visibility and GEO tracking as a recurring retainer service. https://trackbase.ai/blog/how-to-get-cited-by-ai-earning-mentions-on-the-sources-models-trust https://trackbase.ai/blog/how-to-get-cited-by-ai-earning-mentions-on-the-sources-models-trust Sun, 05 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Levi Bouman The fastest way to change how AI talks about your brand usually is not on your own website. It is everywhere else. A citation, where the model uses you as a source, carries more weight than any line you write about yourself, because AI models weight independent mentions far above your own marketing https://trackbase.ai/blog/how-to-improve-your-ai-visibility-a-practical-playbook https://trackbase.ai/blog/how-to-improve-your-ai-visibility-a-practical-playbook Thu, 02 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Levi Bouman You already know AI visibility matters. The harder question is what to actually do about it on Monday morning. This is the owned-side playbook: the work on your own properties that you fully control. For the off-site half, see the guide on earning AI citations. https://trackbase.ai/blog/ai-visibility-for-b2b-saas-where-buyers-look-and-how-to-show-up https://trackbase.ai/blog/ai-visibility-for-b2b-saas-where-buyers-look-and-how-to-show-up Mon, 29 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Bodrik Bakker The modern software buying journey often starts in a chat window, not a search bar. A buyer types “best [category] tool for [use case]” into ChatGPT and gets a shortlist back. Your brand is on that list, or it is not, and most of the evaluation happens before anyone visits your homepage. https://trackbase.ai/blog/being-mentioned-by-ai-isnt-enough-why-sentiment-decides-who-wins https://trackbase.ai/blog/being-mentioned-by-ai-isnt-enough-why-sentiment-decides-who-wins Fri, 26 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Bodrik Bakker Two brands appear in the same ChatGPT answer. One is described as a solid, well-reviewed option that teams trust. The other is listed as an option, though the model adds that some users report slow support. Both were mentioned. Only one is getting the click. https://trackbase.ai/blog/why-you-cant-measure-ai-search-in-google-analytics-and-what-to-track-instead https://trackbase.ai/blog/why-you-cant-measure-ai-search-in-google-analytics-and-what-to-track-instead Tue, 23 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Levi Bouman A buyer asks ChatGPT for the best tool in your category. It hands back a shortlist of three brands. The buyer picks one, lands on the site, and converts a week later. In GA4, that visit shows up as direct, or a branded search. The moment that actually shaped the decision, the AI naming a shortlist, https://trackbase.ai/blog/how-ai-models-decide-which-brands-to-recommend https://trackbase.ai/blog/how-ai-models-decide-which-brands-to-recommend Sat, 20 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Levi Bouman Ask ChatGPT for the best CRM, the best running shoes, the best AI visibility tool. You get a shortlist back. That shortlist is not random, and it is also not the result of any single thing. https://trackbase.ai/blog/why-brands-choose-trackbase-over-other-ai-visibility-tools https://trackbase.ai/blog/why-brands-choose-trackbase-over-other-ai-visibility-tools Wed, 17 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Bodrik Bakker AI visibility tools are appearing fast, and they’re not all built the same. If you’re comparing options, four things actually matter: how many platforms you cover, where your data lives, how often it refreshes, and whether the tool tells you what to do next. https://trackbase.ai/blog/inside-the-trackbase-dashboard-track-analyze-act-in-one-view https://trackbase.ai/blog/inside-the-trackbase-dashboard-track-analyze-act-in-one-view Sun, 14 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Levi Bouman AI visibility data is only useful if you can act on it. The Trackbase dashboard is built around three steps: Track, Analyze, Act. We also have 7 modules that take you from raw signal to your prioritised next move. https://trackbase.ai/blog/how-trackbase-calculates-your-visibility-score-and-why-its-different https://trackbase.ai/blog/how-trackbase-calculates-your-visibility-score-and-why-its-different Thu, 11 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Levi Bouman Most AI-tracking tools count mentions. Trackbase measures something more useful: a Visibility Score that combines presence, positioning, frequency, sentiment and competitive performance into one number you can act on. https://trackbase.ai/blog/mentions-vs-citations-why-both-matter-for-your-ai-visibility https://trackbase.ai/blog/mentions-vs-citations-why-both-matter-for-your-ai-visibility Mon, 08 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Levi Bouman In AI search, two things tell you whether a brand is winning: how often it’s mentioned, and how often it’s cited as a source. They sound similar. They’re not. https://trackbase.ai/blog/the-11-ai-platforms-every-brand-should-be-tracking-in-2026 https://trackbase.ai/blog/the-11-ai-platforms-every-brand-should-be-tracking-in-2026 Fri, 05 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Levi Bouman Your customers aren’t just asking ChatGPT anymore. They’re asking Claude, Perplexity, Gemini, Grok and a growing list of AI engines that all generate answers differently. https://trackbase.ai/blog/aeo-vs-geo-vs-seo-whats-the-difference https://trackbase.ai/blog/aeo-vs-geo-vs-seo-whats-the-difference Tue, 02 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Levi Bouman SEO targets search engines, AEO targets answer engines, and GEO targets generative AI models. They overlap, but they’re not the same and treating them as one is how you end up invisible in the channels that matter most. https://trackbase.ai/blog/what-is-ai-visibility-and-why-it-matters https://trackbase.ai/blog/what-is-ai-visibility-and-why-it-matters Sat, 30 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Levi Bouman Millions of people now skip Google and go straight to ChatGPT, Gemini, or Perplexity when they want a recommendation.