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title: "AI search for citations and rankings"
description: "AI search from ShoutRank: AEO, GEO, AIO, ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, Gemini, AI agents, and Google AI Overviews, logged apart from classic rankings."
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# AI search for citations and rankings

AI search from ShoutRank: AEO, GEO, AIO, ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, Gemini, AI agents, and Google AI Overviews, logged apart from classic rankings.
AI search at ShoutRank is the work of being named in an answer and still owning the query in classic search. The two are measured separately.

Buyers already ask ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, Gemini, and Google. Some of those products cite a page. An agent may also fetch a page and act on it. Google’s AI Overview is a different surface, sitting above the blue links. Mixing those logs hides which one moved.

The pages below split the practice. [AEO](https://shoutrank.com/aeo) is the center. GEO is generative chat. AIO is the Google overview. Rankings stay on the [SEO](https://shoutrank.com/seo) side of the desk.

ShoutRank does not guarantee a ranking or a citation.

## In this section

- [AI SEO](https://shoutrank.com/ai-seo): Rankings and citations, logged as two jobs.
- [AEO](https://shoutrank.com/aeo): The quotable passage across answer surfaces.
- [GEO](https://shoutrank.com/geo): Generative chat products, kept off the Google overview log.
- [AIO](https://shoutrank.com/aio): The Google AI Overview, and nothing else.
- [AI search optimization](https://shoutrank.com/ai-search-optimization): The operating rhythm that holds both logs.
- [ChatGPT SEO](https://shoutrank.com/chatgpt-seo): When the buyer asks ChatGPT first.
- [Claude SEO](https://shoutrank.com/claude-seo): When the buyer asks Claude, not ChatGPT.
- [Google AI Overview SEO](https://shoutrank.com/google-ai-overview-seo): The block above the blue links.
- [Perplexity SEO](https://shoutrank.com/perplexity-seo): Answers that show the sources they used.
- [Gemini SEO](https://shoutrank.com/gemini-seo): Google’s chat product, not the overview.
- [AI agents](https://shoutrank.com/ai-agents): Pages an agent can fetch, quote, and act on.
- [AI citation building](https://shoutrank.com/ai-citation-building): Earn the mention on sources a model already reaches for.
- [AI brand visibility](https://shoutrank.com/ai-brand-visibility): Whether the brand is named, not only whether a URL ranks.
- [LLM optimization](https://shoutrank.com/llm-optimization): A page a model can lift without inventing the offer.
- [AI search monitoring](https://shoutrank.com/ai-search-monitoring): The same prompts, read again next month.
## Questions

### Is AI search a replacement for SEO?

No. A page that cannot be fetched cannot be quoted. SEO keeps the URL in the corpus. AI search asks whether an answer will name it.

### Do you treat every AI product as one channel?

No. ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, Gemini, AI agents, and the Google AI Overview are read on their own prompts. A citation in one is not a citation in the others.

### Can you guarantee a citation?

No. Answers move. The engagement is a fixed prompt set, the page that should be the source, and a monthly read of who was named.

## Related

- [SEO services](https://shoutrank.com/services): The rankings the citations sit on.
- [Monitoring](https://shoutrank.com/ai-search-monitoring): How the prompt set is kept honest.
- [Get started](https://shoutrank.com/contact): Send a brief to the desk.