Entity Authority
The degree to which search engines and language models recognise your brand as a credible entity associated with a topic, built through consistent topical coverage, structured data, and corroborating mentions across the web. Entity authority increasingly determines citation stability in AI answers.
How Entity Authority works in practice
Entity authority is the degree to which search engines and language models confidently associate your brand, as a recognised entity, with a topic — and it is becoming the stabilising factor in whether you are cited consistently or sporadically in AI answers. It is built the slow way: comprehensive, internally linked topical coverage; accurate structured data and consistent identity signals across the web; and corroborating mentions from sources the models already trust. Unlike a single ranking, entity authority is resistant to algorithm volatility because it reflects an accumulated, cross-source consensus about who you are and what you are credible on. For a brand in a trust-sensitive category, investing in entity authority is investing in being the name the model recommends when a user asks who to trust.
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The practice of optimising content so it is cited, summarised, and quoted by generative answer engines such as ChatGPT, Perplexity, Google AI Overviews, and Claude. GEO shares fundamentals with SEO — clear authorship, factual accuracy, structured content, strong entity signals — but rewards content that is quotable, well-attributed, and directly answers a question in a single passage an LLM can lift. It is rapidly becoming a parallel acquisition channel to organic search.
A reference to your content inside an AI-generated answer from ChatGPT, Gemini, Google AI Mode, or similar. Citations are the new organic placement: when a user asks an assistant which product to trust, you are either cited with your proof points or invisible.
A concept from a Google patent describing how search results may be scored by how much new information a document adds relative to pages the user has already seen on the same query. The practical implication is that publishing another near-identical guide on a saturated topic adds little value; pages that introduce original data, a novel framing, or a unique perspective earn stronger rankings and more AI-answer citations.
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