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Getting cited by an AI engine is the new ranking — but unlike a Google position, there's no dashboard that shows it to you. This is the measurement method we actually run on this site: a fixed query set, the two engine APIs that return real citation URLs, the one engine that doesn't, and what the numbers do and don't tell you.
For three weeks this site ran its own GEO playbook on itself — reframed legacy posts, shipped a citation pillar, wired clean schema, and tracked the numbers. Here's the unflattering truth: the leading work shipped, the lagging metrics haven't moved, and the one durable AI citation is exactly the niche the diagnosis predicted. The baseline, in public.
