6 months of tracking our brand in AI answers - what I actually learned

Reddit r/artificial / 5/15/2026

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Key Points

  • The author began tracking how their brand appears in AI answers after noticing AI search was affecting inbound leads.
  • Manual tracking for two months was difficult, so they switched to LLMClicks.ai for the final four months to monitor performance more effectively.
  • They observed that AI visibility fluctuates more than traditional Google rankings and that different AI platforms cite the same brand differently for similar queries.
  • The content that earns AI citations was not necessarily the most SEO-optimized material, and Reddit/community mentions showed a strong correlation with AI citations.
  • Brands that perform well in AI visibility appear to be following an approach that differs fundamentally from traditional SEO strategies.

Started this experiment when I noticed AI search affecting our inbound.

Tracked manually for 2 months (painful).
Switched to LLMClicks.ai for the last 4 months (much better).

What I found:

AI visibility fluctuates way more than Google rankings
Different platforms cite us differently for similar queries
The content that gets us cited is NOT our most SEO-optimized content
Reddit and community mentions directly correlate with AI citations

The brands winning at AI visibility are doing something fundamentally different than traditional SEO.

Happy to share more specifics if useful to anyone here.

submitted by /u/Real-Assist1833
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