Does an AI Press Release Help or Hurt SEO? Our Tracking Data
SEO is largely moot here. The sponsored link passes no authority, but AI engines quote releases fast, and that is where small brands can still compete for attention.
Small Business Press Release Distribution: Wires or AI?
In 2026 the reader of a press release has changed. In a month of tracking, AI crawlers fetched our newsroom 3,659 times and people viewed it 412 times. Here is how I would distribute one.
Do Press Releases Get Media Coverage? What Tracking Shows
People ask whether a press release will get them media coverage. I track every release we publish, and the reader is a machine. Here is what the first week looks like and who should not bother.
There Is No Page 2 in an AI Answer
Search invisibility was gradual; page 2 still got scraps. An AI answer is binary: cited or absent. The playbook for businesses nobody can find yet, with proof it works.
The Search Queries Only AI Agents Type (And Why 0 Clicks Is the Win)
Humans don't type '"pr newswire" "$805" "400 words"' or append -site:reddit.com to searches. AI agents do. Our GSC data shows 50+ such queries ranking top-3 with zero clicks, first-party evidence of how AI research actually works.
How to Get Cited by Google AI Overviews in 2026: Rules & Reality
The biggest AI answer surface has the simplest official rules (indexed and snippet-eligible, no special markup) and the most contested traffic data. Here's the documented playbook plus the disputes nobody should paper over.
How to Get Cited by Google Gemini in 2026: The Mention Engine
Gemini hit 900M monthly users, but it links sources in barely a fifth of brand appearances, so winning here means winning mentions. Here's what Google actually documents, and what the citation data shows.
How to Get Cited by ChatGPT Search in 2026: The Documented Playbook
ChatGPT reached 900M weekly users and its in-answer brand links tripled referral traffic in May 2026. OpenAI documents exactly one visibility lever. Here's the verified playbook, and the 'it's just Bing' myth, corrected.
How to Get Cited by Perplexity in 2026
Perplexity is the most SEO-like AI engine: 28.6% of its citations rank in Google's top 10, the highest of any AI platform. Here's exactly how it sources answers and the documented steps to get your brand cited.
How Long Until AI Cites Your Press Release? (Real Data)
We tracked 147 AI citations across 41 press releases. Median time-to-first-citation: 48 hours. A third get cited within a day. Here's the full distribution, including the slow tail nobody publishes.
We Logged 108,808 AI Agents Reading Our Site
Real first-party data: 108,808 logged AI-agent visits to Pressonify.ai, 6,354 in the last 7 days alone. One in five of those visits targeted competitor pricing pages. Here's what that tells us.
AI Citation Monitoring Platforms 2026: AEO Engine vs DataForSEO vs Authoritas vs Siftly vs Brand24
We re-ran the category queries on Perplexity. The winners were not who we expected. Here's the real AI citation tracking competitive set, and the honest comparison, including where Pressonify sits.