AI Visibility

Every major assistant declines explicit content. None of them decline the commercial question underneath it — which processor handles high-risk billing, which age-verification vendor to shortlist, which brand makes the better product. Those answers are being generated today, for your category, with someone named in them. The refusal everyone notices has distracted the whole industry from the recommendation nobody is measuring.

Brands are around six times more likely to be cited through third-party sources than through their own site. In restricted categories the gap is wider still, because the engines lean harder on sources they consider independent when the subject is sensitive. Roundups, comparison pages, community discussion, review platforms and directory profiles decide this. A site redesign moves none of it.

ChatGPT resolves heavily through Bing and licensed publisher content. Gemini and AI Overviews weight what Google has indexed and what it trusts. Perplexity leans unusually hard on community discussion, which is why Reddit threads decide more of this category than anyone expects. Copilot draws on Bing plus editorial. A programme optimising one surface will report healthy numbers while three others quietly fail.

Engines have to be able to tell that your company is one company — the legal name, the trading name, the product name and the domain all resolving to a single node rather than four unrelated stubs. In this industry that is routinely broken, because operators use different names across directories, media and their own footer for perfectly sensible commercial reasons. It is unglamorous, and it is frequently the single change that moves a score.

Each month we re-run your prompt set across all four engines and report the score, the per-engine breakdown, your share of voice against named competitors, and the citation source behind every mention. The number moves and you can see what moved it. Where an engine declines a prompt entirely we report that separately, because a refused prompt is a different problem from one a competitor won.

We measured it rather than assuming. In these categories the adult-qualified terms for this service — adult ai seo, adult aeo, ai seo for adult websites — return no search volume at all.

That is worth stating plainly on a page selling the service. It does not mean the work has no value; it means nobody is shopping for it by name, so this page exists to explain and convert rather than to rank. The demand is in front of your buyers, and the industry pages set out exactly what that looks like.