Date: 2026-04-24
- URL: https://x.com/liuxigreen/status/2047541963868791168
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I tracked 2 SaaS brands across ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Google for 3 months. One dominates SEO. The Brand A ranks #2 on Google for "project management software" and gets ~12K organic clicks a month. In ChatGPT, it is mentioned in zero out of 50 related prompts. Brand B is #8 on Google, but shows up in 14 out of 50 ChatGPT responses because its docs, API references, and comparison pages are indexed in the training data. Here is what changed: Google rewards backlinks and keyword density. AI search rewards being inside the answer, not just on the results page. If your content is not structured as a direct answer to a question, you are invisible to LLMs even if you dominate traditional SEO. The old playbook was "rank higher." The new playbook is "become the source." Most companies are still optimizing for