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JPJaxon Parrottinmachinerelations.hashnode.dev·Jul 2 · 8 min readHow the Machine Relations Index Measures Source Authority Across Six AI EnginesAI search engines disagree on which sources to cite more than half the time. A source that ChatGPT surfaces may be absent from Gemini's citations, while Google AI Mode favors domains that Perplexity i00
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CBCihangir Bozdoganincihangir-bozdogan.hashnode.dev·May 10 · 21 min readBacklink Graphs and AI Page Authority, A Pre-Registered Experiment On Whether PageRank Still MattersI ran a small experiment last quarter that I had been putting off for months. The whole point of the test was to write down the hypothesis and the stop conditions in advance, push the same content to 00
JPJaxon Parrottinmachinerelations.hashnode.dev·May 5 · 6 min readCitation selection and citation absorption are different problemsCitation selection and citation absorption are different problems Subtitle: Why AI engines may cite a page without using it, and why that distinction changes how developers measure retrieval quality. When people talk about AI citations, they usually ...00
CBCihangir Bozdoganincihangir-bozdogan.hashnode.dev·May 3 · 17 min readBrand Mentions in LLMs Come From Three Different Pipelines. Optimising for One Misses the Other Two.If a major AI assistant says something about your brand a positive mention, a comparison, a fact about your business there is a temptation to treat that as a single thing. "AI knows about us." It is n00
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MTMittal Technologiesinmittal-tech.hashnode.dev·Apr 21 · 3 min readI Audited 20 Business Websites This Year. Here's What Almost All of Them Got Wrong.Over the past year I've done web audits for a lot of small and mid-size businesses — retail, services, SaaS, some e-commerce. Different industries, different tech stacks, different budgets. But there 00
JJerryinaxiant.hashnode.dev·Mar 13 · 3 min readSEO Experiment: Launching 5 New Websites to Study Googlebot, GPTBot & Indexing BehaviorI recently started an SEO experiment and would really appreciate feedback from anyone experienced with search engines, crawling behavior, or technical SEO. Instead of launching a single website, I lau00