Mentio
Short, practical guides to getting found, trusted and recommended by AI.
Most of a GEO audit is verifiable by the site owner in under an hour. Run these twelve checks first — they tell you what you need, and whether the vendor quoting you knows their job.
Adding a CDN proxy for security headers can silently block AI crawlers and break your own site. The two traps we hit doing it on mentio.agency, and how to avoid both.
The major AI assistants retrieve differently, and optimising for one does not automatically win the others. What each system favours, and the work that pays off across all of them.
Unsigned content is treated as lower-confidence by AI systems. What each letter of E-E-A-T means in practice, why the first E is the hardest to fake, and the minimum viable authorship setup.
AI systems treat a brand that exists on one website as an unverified claim. What an entity is, why cross-referencing matters more than volume, and the consistency mistake that quietly splits you in two.
Agencies promising guaranteed AI citations are selling something they do not control. Here is exactly where the control ends, and what an honest guarantee looks like instead.
Five weeks after publishing our own audit at 53/100, the same audit returns 77/100. The honest breakdown of which fixes moved the number, which did almost nothing, and what is still broken.
Assistants lift specific, self-contained passages — not paragraphs of positioning. Six concrete rules, with before-and-after examples, for making your pages quotable.
Structured data is how you state facts machines can trust. Which schema types move the needle for AI visibility, what to put in them, and the mistake that quietly cancels them out.
GPTBot, ClaudeBot, PerplexityBot, Google-Extended — what each AI crawler does, how to check whether you're blocking them by accident, and which ones to allow.
We ran the same GEO audit we sell on mentio.agency itself, two days after launch. Full category scores, what earned 88-98, what earned 5, and why the gap is the roadmap.
AI Overviews sit above the classic results and answer the query directly. What determines which sites get cited — and the five practical steps that raise your odds.
GEO is not a replacement for SEO — it's the next layer. A practical comparison: what carries over, what changes, and why businesses now need both.
AI doesn't say 'no results' — it confidently recommends someone else. The five most common technical and content reasons a business is invisible to ChatGPT, Perplexity and Google AI.
A practical 5-minute test: ask ChatGPT, Perplexity and Gemini about your business, check your robots.txt and structured data, and find out if AI can recommend you at all.
llms.txt is a proposed standard: a markdown file that gives AI systems a curated map of your website. What it is, how it differs from robots.txt and sitemap.xml, and how to write one.