SEO veteran finds it near-impossible to get LLMs to cite sources without GEO vendor blogs

lilyraynyc · x · 2026-09-29

SEO practitioner Lily Ray ran an experiment: asking LLMs how they decide which sources to trust without citing any GEO agency/vendor blogs — and concluded it's borderline impossible.

Her favorite example: a citation from geoaiomarketing.com. The takeaway is that AI search citation ecosystems are heavily self-referential to GEO marketing content, making it hard for brands to influence LLM answers without going through these sites.

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