Get Cited by AI - Show Me the Number: No-Hype Answer Engine Optimization for SaaS Founders and Site Owners

By J Cook

You ask ChatGPT who's best in your space. It names three competitors. Not you.

Your buyers stopped Googling. They ask ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Gemini now, and those answers recommend somebody. You have no idea if it's you.

Meanwhile, founders on Reddit are posting screenshots of their product getting cited by name in AI answers. The difference isn't a bigger budget. It's that they can measure their AI citations, and you're guessing. Every "GEO expert" selling you a fix is the same person you already called snake oil.

This book hands you the instrument the entire AI-search shelf forgot: a way to see whether AI cites you, move that number on purpose, and prove it moved.

In Chapter 4 you run your first citation audit in 20 minutes and see your real number today. By Chapter 6 you have a monthly tracking loop and you know which tools are lying to you. By Chapter 9 your pages are built to get quoted, your site is readable by AI agents, and the crawlers you actually want can reach you. By the last page you have a quarterly system that runs without this book.

Sixteen other AI-search books sit on this shelf. None of them shows you a number. You can't tell from any of them whether a single tactic moved your citations. You can't separate the real work from what Google itself says to ignore. You can't make your site readable to an AI agent, because not one of them mentions llms.txt or the crawler you are accidentally blocking. This is the book that measures what the others only promise.

Here's what you'll build:
1. A baseline citation scorecard that shows your AI-citation share today
2. A 10-query buyer-intent set you re-run every month
3. A measurement loop wired into Google's new Search Console AI report
4. A 20-minute-a-month manual method that beats the $100-plus-a-month tools that can't agree on your number
5. A real llms.txt that passes Google's Lighthouse check, used honestly
6. A citation-worthy page rewrite, measured before and after
7. An ROI model that values one buyer-intent citation over 8,000 vanity mentions

Every week, more "AI search" books drop with the same recycled advice and no way to check if any of it works. This one is different: 190-plus pages of measure-it, prove-it method built for people who own a site and have no patience for hype. The skeptics were right about most of GEO. This is the part that's real. Scroll up and grab your copy.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0H4VX3HTZ
• ISBN13: 9798181050655
• Release Date: June 2026
• Publisher: Independently published
• Length: 184 Pages
• Weight: 0.56 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 0.4" x 6.0"