Asking LLMs to explain themselves without citing GEO vendor blogs? 'Impossible,' says SEO analyst
lilyraynyc · x · 2026-09-29
SEO/GEO commentator Lily Ray posed a test: ask an LLM to explain how LLMs work while forbidding citations to GEO vendor blogs — she believes it's impossible. Her example citation list is indeed full of GEO vendor sites, including geoaiomarketing.com, which she calls out. The post highlights a hidden issue in AI answers: vendor-optimized GEO content has become a default 'authority' that models cite, biasing responses toward marketing talking points. The linked site's articles also cover domain authority's falling correlation with AI Overview citations (r down from 0.43 to 0.18), contested effects of schema markup, and AI engines misattributing brand facts.
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