Generative Engine Optimization

Optimized for every AI search engine.

PressGEO scores each release against the citation rubrics of ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, Claude, Grok, and Copilot — then polls all six engines and reports back when they actually cite you.

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Per-engine rubric

Six engines. Six different ways to earn a citation.

Generic "optimize for AI" tactics leave citations on the table. PressGEO scores each release on what every engine actually weights and tells you exactly what to fix per engine.

Engine

What it weights

What PressGEO does for it

ChatGPT

OpenAI

Answer-first lede, conversational FAQ-style sub-headers, clean attribution with role + company, and a 3–5 question FAQ block that mirrors user prompts.

Rewrites your lede to answer first; auto-generates an FAQ block from the body; enforces named attribution on every quote.

Gemini

Google

Schema.org NewsArticle + FAQPage + Speakable, named entities with sameAs links, Organization markup, Google News sitemap eligibility, freshness signals.

Ships NewsArticle, FAQPage, Speakable, and BreadcrumbList JSON-LD; extracts entities + canonical URLs; submits a Google-News-shaped sitemap on publish.

Perplexity

Dense numeric specificity (counts, dates, percentages, dollar amounts), named human quotes, outbound citations to primary sources, recency.

Scores numeric density per paragraph; flags vague qualifiers; the rewrite tightens to specific numbers and adds primary-source linking.

Claude

Anthropic

Structured headings, hedged factual language, clear publisher + author identity, plain-language paragraphs without marketing puffery.

Enforces plain-language scoring; strips hype; surfaces publisher + author in markup so Claude's web_search tool can identify the source.

Grok

xAI

Recency, conversational tone in quoted speech, brevity, shareable hooks, and clean indexability for X/Twitter card preview.

Generates Twitter card metadata, summarizes the release into a tweet-shaped hook, and pings IndexNow + WebSub at publish for sub-hour indexing.

Copilot

Microsoft

NewsArticle completeness, IndexNow-ready freshness, publisher attribution, image alt text, and Bing-indexed company pages.

IndexNow ping on every publish (Bing + Yandex + Naver); per-company newsroom pages; image alt enforcement in the editor.

Citation Monitor

Stop guessing. See who's actually citing you.

After each release publishes, PressGEO fires citation-likely questions at every major AI engine on a schedule and logs every hit, miss, and quoted excerpt back into your dashboard.

Polls all six engines on a schedule with citation-likely questions auto-generated from your release.
Logs every hit, miss, quoted excerpt, and the engine's full raw response — drill in per release.
Per-engine dashboard so you can see at a glance which AI surfaces are quoting you and which aren't.
Engine API keys are workspace-scoped and optional — engines without a key show as 'not configured', the rest still run.
Hard monthly check cap per workspace so polling costs never surprise you.
Custom queries per release — override the AI-generated ones with your own brand/product phrasing.

The PressGEO GEO checklist

Ten rules we enforce on every draft.

Answer-first lede

The first 1–2 sentences directly answer what happened. No throat-clearing — LLMs only quote what's citable.

One claim per paragraph

Each paragraph makes a single claim, backed by a statistic, named source, or quote. Easier for retrieval.

Named human quotes

Every release includes attributed quotes with title and company. LLMs cite quoted speech disproportionately.

Numeric specificity

Concrete dates, percentages, dollar amounts. No 'many' or 'significantly' — vague claims get skipped.

Question sub-headers

Section headers phrased as natural questions match the way users prompt ChatGPT and Perplexity.

FAQ block + schema.org

Every release ends with 3–5 Q&A pairs and ships with NewsArticle + FAQPage JSON-LD on the public page.

The other half

GEO is half the story. The other half is syndication.

RSS, Atom, JSON Feed, Google News sitemap, WebSub, signed webhooks, per-issuer newsrooms, podcasts — every open-web channel, on every plan. No journalist spam.

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