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Plain-language guides to AI visibility: what it is, how to check it and what actually helps.

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• What Is AI Visibility?
  AI visibility is how often, and how accurately, AI assistants name your brand when people ask what to buy or who to hire. Definition, metrics and what helps.
• How to Check If ChatGPT Recommends Your Brand
  A free, step-by-step way to test whether ChatGPT and other AI assistants name your brand when customers ask what to buy. About an hour, no tools needed.
• Why ChatGPT Doesn't Mention Your Brand
  Seven common reasons ChatGPT leaves a brand out of its answers, how to check each one, and what to fix first. No guarantees, just the order of work.
• How to Get Recommended by AI Assistants
  A practical checklist for getting named by ChatGPT and other AI assistants: findable, clear, credible, measured, with the evidence for each item.
• AI Visibility vs SEO: What's the Difference?
  SEO ranks pages in a list of links. AI visibility is whether an assistant names your brand. How AI search and SEO overlap, differ and are measured.
• What Are AEO and GEO?
  AEO, GEO and AI visibility explained in plain language: what the terms mean, how they relate to SEO, and what to ask a provider who sells them.
• How We Test AI Visibility
  How Top Seed AI checks whether AI assistants recommend a brand: the questions we ask, how we record answers and count, and the limits of a single test.
• How to Choose an AI Visibility Agency
  Judge an AI visibility provider by how it measures, what it delivers, and what it refuses to promise.
• Does Schema Markup Help AI Citations?
  No clearly documented test we found shows that adding schema markup makes AI assistants cite you more.
• Do You Need an llms.txt File?
  llms.txt is a proposed Markdown file that gives AI agents a short guide to your site.
• How to Measure AI Search Traffic and Visibility
  Measure AI search in three layers: analytics referrals, Google Search Console, and repeated buyer-question checks. What each one shows and what it misses.
• AI Visibility for B2B Service Companies
  Some B2B buyers do ask AI assistants which vendors to consider, but the evidence for services is thin. What surveys show, plus a 30-day plan.
• Best AEO and GEO Agencies for B2B Companies in 2026
  The right agency depends mostly on your budget and how much of the work you want done for you.
• AEO Agency vs AI Visibility Software: Which Do You Need?
  Software shows where AI assistants mention you and suggests what to fix; an agency does the fixing.
• AthenaHQ Alternatives for Small and Mid-Size Companies (2026)
  AthenaHQ tracks your brand across up to 11 AI models and suggests fixes; its paid Starter plan is $295 a month ($245 billed annually), and a certified specialist comes only with Enterprise.
• Who Writes the "Best" Lists AI Reads? A Check of 16 B2B Fields
  Mostly the companies on them.