Category: Data & Experiments
Controlled experiments measuring how specific content variables affect AI citation rates. Each experiment isolates a single variable — structure, entity density, freshness, or platform behaviour — and tests it under documented conditions with replicable methodology. Results include raw citation data, statistical significance assessments, and practical recommendations based on observed effect sizes.
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GA4 Misses AI Referrals Entirely. Your Server Logs Show How Much.
Read more →: GA4 Misses AI Referrals Entirely. Your Server Logs Show How Much.GA4 captured fewer than 1 in 200 human page views on thegeolab.net and missed every Gemini AI referral. Server logs are the arbiter for AI referral counts.
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llms.txt vs RSS, Measured: 78 Days of IP-Verified Log Analysis
Read more →: llms.txt vs RSS, Measured: 78 Days of IP-Verified Log AnalysisSeven verified AI-bot fetches of llms.txt in 78 days. The raw ratio to RSS is 1:9.5 and 52% of bot-claimed requests fail IP verification. First-person log analysis with CIDR and…
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10 Research Papers That Define the GEO Field
Read more →: 10 Research Papers That Define the GEO FieldTen peer-reviewed papers that form the citable foundation for GEO. From the RAG architecture that makes AI search work to the first study that measured citation optimisation as a distinct…
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What llms.txt Actually Does (And What It Doesn’t): A Measured Assessment
Read more →: What llms.txt Actually Does (And What It Doesn’t): A Measured AssessmentBy Artur Ferreira · The GEO Lab · Published: July 2026 What llms.txt Actually Does (And What It Doesn’t): A Measured Assessment The GEO Lab has an llms.txt. We still…
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The ChatGPT Pre-Retrieval Gate: How Query Construction Determines Whether ChatGPT Searches at All
Read more →: The ChatGPT Pre-Retrieval Gate: How Query Construction Determines Whether ChatGPT Searches at AllBy Artur Ferreira · The GEO Lab · Published: June 2026 The ChatGPT Pre-Retrieval Gate: How Query Construction Determines Whether ChatGPT Searches at All You checked ChatGPT. Zero citations. The…
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10 Probe Queries We Use to Test AI Citation Behaviour
Read more →: 10 Probe Queries We Use to Test AI Citation BehaviourTen distinct query types, each targeting a different layer of the retrieval pipeline — the working query taxonomy behind every GEO Lab experiment.
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10 Variables That Change Between AI Citation Measurements
Read more →: 10 Variables That Change Between AI Citation MeasurementsTen concrete things that shift between two citation rate measurements even when your content hasn’t — the sources of the noise floor every GEO experiment has to account for.
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Google AI Mode and AI Overview Are Separate Citation Surfaces
Read more →: Google AI Mode and AI Overview Are Separate Citation SurfacesGoogle AI Mode cited The GEO Lab on 20/30 checks where AI Overview cited it on 0/10 — zero overlap. A measurement that reads only the AIO block is blind…
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What Google’s New GSC Generative AI Report Actually Measures (And What It Can’t)
Read more →: What Google’s New GSC Generative AI Report Actually Measures (And What It Can’t)By Artur Ferreira · The GEO Lab · Published: 14 June 2026 What Google’s New GSC Generative AI Report Actually Measures (And What It Can’t) Google handed you AI-visibility data…
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Does Agent-Readiness Conformance Predict AI Citation? Pre-Registering the Test
Read more →: Does Agent-Readiness Conformance Predict AI Citation? Pre-Registering the TestTwo agent-readiness tools score the same site with near-zero overlap. This pre-registration tests whether conformance predicts AI citation after controlling for domain authority. Stated prior: null.