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What if you could get video content without having to set up a camera, figure out great angles, and say the right words articulately, because a single app, a one-for-all video-generating app, says it could do it all for you?
Only a few content creators and video marketers would say no to that. It’s like Christmas day, but this time, every day is Christmas on your desktop or mobile, as long as you log in to the Pippit AI website.
But talks are pretty cheap, and so actions need to match them. That’s why I dedicated irretrievable time and unwavering attention to Pippit AI. If it says it could do all these, I might as well join in on the thrill and experience them for myself.
In this article, I’m writing down everything I found out. I’ll cover its features, pricing, pros and cons, practical usage of these features, recommendations for four alternatives, key takeaways, and a personal note (or “verdict” if you prefer that term).
Let’s get on with it.
Pippit AI is a content-generation tool designed to help you create short-form marketing assets, such as videos, posters, and product images. It’s part of the CapCut product family, connecting users closely with TikTok and other platforms under the ByteDance umbrella. That connection gives it a natural edge when it comes to integration with social-first workflows.
The app doesn’t try to do everything. Instead, it centers on visual content tailored for sales, brand visibility, and digital engagement. Think of it as a toolkit for businesses, creators, or marketing teams that need consistent content without starting from scratch every time.
While it’s a relatively new thing on board, its direct tie-in with CapCut and TikTok shows that its focus lies on short videos, product visuals, and scalable content pipelines. If you’re already in that space or looking to move into it, Pippit AI aligns well with that goal
Unlike Capcut, Pippit AI runs on a web interface, so no app download is needed. You work within a structured dashboard and gain access to templates and tools designed to shorten your production timeline and streamline the process of building visual content.
Use Pippit AI if you:
Skip Pippit AI if you:
Now, let’s explore the tools that make Pippit AI what it is.
The One-Click Video Solution in Pippit AI allows you to create marketing videos by either entering a product URL or manually uploading product visuals and descriptions. Once you provide that input, the tool automatically generates multiple video drafts.
It includes an option to add product links to the generated content, which can help connect videos directly to sales pages. The tool also handles platform formatting by resizing and adjusting the content to fit social media specifications. There’s batch export functionality that enables exporting several videos at once.
The tool includes multi-track editing capabilities. You can adjust transitions, animations, effects, and audio using keyframe controls. While the core function is automatic video generation, the editing tools allow for more detailed refinements when needed.
The AI Product Images tool in Pippit AI allows you to generate product photos in batches, supporting use cases across Shopify, TikTok Shop, Amazon, and other marketplaces. You can select items from your product listings or upload new visuals, and the tool automatically removes the background.
After that, you can apply curated lifestyle backgrounds to match your branding or promotional theme. An AI-powered shadow adjustment system adds natural-looking depth and dimension to your images.
For ad content, you can convert standard product shots into banner-style layouts with logo placement, calls to action, and other branded elements. If you’re selling apparel, there’s an AI try-on option that shows how clothing items might look on diverse model types in different poses.
Batch editing is also included, letting you apply changes like cropping, resizing, and resolution tuning to multiple images at once. This helps streamline edits for multi-platform publishing.
Pippit AI’s Avatars and Voices feature is engineered to help you generate professional-looking video content using realistic digital characters. These avatars can be customized to match a broad collection of branding styles, with over 80 options spanning diverse ethnicities, age groups, and visual aesthetics.
Each avatar is animated with hyper-realistic movement. Facial expressions, gestures, and body language are subtly rendered to add more life and nuance to the content. Whether the use case is product explanation or audience engagement, these characters are built to feel less robotic and more natural.
Alongside the visual customization, this tool includes a multilingual text-to-speech engine that converts scripts into spoken audio. Over 50 AI voices support more than 20 languages, and these voices are designed to mirror authentic human accents, speech rhythms, and tonal variations to build connections across global audiences.
Flexible background handling is also included. Users can remove or swap out backgrounds to fit different formats or brand settings, offering more creative control. This means avatars can be layered seamlessly into different video templates without additional editing tools.
From creating tutorials to launching short-form ads, this feature allows quick assembly of avatar-led content without hiring voice actors or filming in studio conditions.
The asset library is explicitly curated for online sellers, featuring studio-quality visuals designed to elevate storefronts, social media posts, and digital advertisements. These templates are built with conversions in mind, blending aesthetic design with marketing intent.
Music and font collections are also included. The music library features pre-cleared tracks suitable for both organic and paid content, while the font selection offers a range of typefaces for creating branded material. These resources help users avoid the hassle of licensing or sourcing assets from third-party sites.
New assets are added weekly, ensuring users can access fresh and relevant content to keep up with seasonal trends or platform shifts. Everything is quality-checked and organized for e-commerce usage, making finding what’s needed quickly easier.
This feature enables faster content creation while keeping all outputs commercially compliant by removing the stress of licensing and production sourcing.
The Auto-Publishing and Analytics feature in Pippit AI lets you plan, schedule, and monitor content across multiple social media platforms from a single dashboard. It functions as a centralized calendar, allowing you to organize posts in advance and select specific times for automated publishing.
This tool helps you publish on platforms like TikTok and others without needing to post manually each time. It also includes the option to add product links directly to content, turning posts into shoppable assets that link back to listings or storefronts.
Beyond scheduling, the analytics dashboard gives you post-performance data in real time. You can track views and engagement rates and compare how content performs across different platforms. It includes comparison metrics, audience insights, and performance breakdowns that help refine future content strategies.
This simplifies team coordination and aligns everything with campaign goals and posting timelines.
Let’s see how I signed up for Pippit AI to use these features.
Here are the steps I followed:.
I tapped the “Start for free” button on the top-right corner of Pippit AI’s welcome interface to get started. That took me to a login screen where I could sign up using social media, email, or Google. I chose the email route
After entering my email, I was directed to a sign-up page where I had to create a password, which needed to be between 6 and 20 characters.
Once I submitted that, a verification code was sent to my email. I had to check my inbox and copy and paste the code to complete the registration. Right after that, Pippit asked for my birthdate to confirm my age, likely a basic compliance check to verify that I’m old enough to use the platform.
With that done, I was introduced to Pippit’s main dashboard. 
It was a clean, well-organized interface that was not overwhelming. All five core features I’d read about earlier were laid out in one place: a One-Click Video Solution, AI Product Images, AI Avatars and Voices, Auto-Publishing and Analytics, and Pre-Cleared Creative Assets.
I decided to try the AI Product Images tool first for this test. I wanted to see how it handles batch product photos and what visuals it could generate for a hypothetical product. The Image Studio promised fast, professional-grade results, and I was curious to see how much control I’d have over things like backgrounds, shadows, and layout. 
When I entered the Image Studio, I immediately saw a few tools. There was an option to remove the background from an image, another to add an AI background, and one for scaling or resizing pictures. I also noticed a feature that lets you generate an image with AI, and that one stood out to me the most.
Besides that, there were two other tools: Product Poster and Text Poster. From the names, it seemed like you could turn a regular image or text into a promotional design. But I wanted to test the AI image generation first and see how it actually worked. So I clicked on AI Generate to begin.
Once I entered the Image Studio, I navigated to the AI Design section. The layout was straightforward, with a left panel holding all the creative controls. At the top of the panel was a prompt field labeled “Describe the image you want to generate.” That’s where I would type the concept for the AI to interpret visually.
Below the prompt field, I noticed a dropdown option to specify whether I wanted the image to reference any uploaded material or just rely on the written description. By default, it was set to “Any image,” but this could be changed if needed.
The interface also offered an impressive catalog of style filters. These were clearly grouped as creative presets I could apply to control the artistic look of the final output. The options included everything from playful formats like Pixel Art, Papercut, and Claymation, to more serious or atmospheric styles like Gothic, Technological, Film Texture, and Minimalist. Other standout categories included Puffy Text, Retro, Cartoon, and Crayon, giving me a wide range to experiment with depending on the product or vibe I wanted to convey.
The side panel also included AI Background, Add Text, Upload, and History tabs. These showed that I could either remove or replace an image background using AI, overlay marketing copy directly, upload images for reference, or revisit previously generated visuals, making it a relatively complete and flexible creative toolkit.
I generated a promotional image for a hypothetical product: a waterproof travel pouch to test the tool. Here’s the image prompt I typed into the box:
Prompt to copy and use in Pippit AI:
“A waterproof travel pouch resting on a sunlit beach towel with sunglasses beside it, styled in modern art, minimalist background, with subtle branding and vibrant summer colors. High-resolution, product-focused layout for online ads.”
Then I scrolled down to the Generate tab. It generated 4 images at first, but I could still generate more, so I clicked on that. I could download the image, resize it, and change the background color. 
Then I returned to the home page to try out the video generator. This time, I decided to explore Pippit AI’s avatars. Here’s how it went down. 
I wanted to see how well Pippit’s AI avatars hold up, not just in terms of voice or animation, but also whether they feel believable enough to use in actual branded content. The range of avatars available drew me in first; it promised diversity in appearance, tone, personality, age, and gender. That intrigued me and made me realize how expressive these avatars would really be. If their voices matched the visuals. And how their facial expressions and gestures would carry meaning in such a short time.  The video I made would be short (only 6 seconds long), and the tool offers caption styles and language options similar to what you’d find in CapCut, making it easy to localize or stylize content. And an export button to get the video into my gallery. 
The avatar I picked felt perfect for a college-style message. Her outfit looked casual but put-together, and her body language had this open, easygoing confidence (hands stretched out mid-sentence)  like she was talking to a group of new students. The background also worked. It looked like a real outdoor wall, not some awkward stock scene, and the whole frame gave off a relaxed, campus-life feel.
For this step, I set out to observe these key details to judge the avatar by:
Since the video must stay within a 6-second limit, I wrote a quick, context-aware prompt to match the avatar’s student outlook. 
“Hello, I’m Ava. Are you going to be joining us for the weekly book discussion this Saturday? Can’t wait to see you! 🙂”
When I previewed the video inside the editor, the lip sync didn’t fully align. The timing felt slightly off, like the mouth movements trailed behind the voice. I noticed a message saying lip sync would only be fully rendered in the exported version. So I went ahead with the download process.
The export form included several fields. I named the file “Book reading announcement”, selected “no watermark,” and set the resolution to 1080p. For the FPS (frames per second), I chose 30, which is standard for most video platforms and should ensure smooth playback. The output format was MP4, and I selected the “better quality” option before hitting download.
Once it had finished downloading, there was a push publication option where I could publish it on Instagram, TikTok, and Facebook, just like CapCut gives, but I didn’t choose this. Instead, I went to my gallery to see how it would turn out, and here is what I got. 
Eye movement was where things fell short. The AI Avatar blinked, which helped, but it didn’t feel natural. Her gaze didn’t shift or track anything, so the avatar came off a bit stiff in that area. 3 out of 5.
When it came to gestures, the movement was too repetitive. The avatar kept her hands stretched slightly forward the entire time, flicking them like someone casually talking. But when the script said “can’t wait to see you,” I expected a more direct gesture like pointing at the camera, but that didn’t happen. 2.5 out of 5.
The AI avatar’s facial expression was solid. Her smile matched the tone of the message, and her eyes didn’t look dull or lifeless. 4 out of 5.
The voice sounded close to natural and carried a decent emotional range, with good pacing and tone. I’d give that 5 out of 5.
The background looked believable and professionally rendered. And the video resolution, set at 1080p, was clean and clear. Both get 5 out of 5.
However, the video wasn’t quite smooth. The motion didn’t glitch, but her body movement lacked natural weight, which made the video feel less fluid. 3 out of 5.
If you’re looking for a fast way to create short, presenter-style videos without stepping in front of the camera, Pippit’s AI avatar tool is a helpful starting point, but it’s not a complete replacement for real video just yet.
The voice is solid, and the background looks clean, but the lack of expressive gestures, stiff eye movement, and slightly off lip sync make the output feel a little mechanical. It’s fine for casual messages or placeholder content, but I wouldn’t rely on it alone for anything customer-facing or personal.
Personally, I’d recommend using it as a draft tool, then switching to recording yourself if you want something more natural. From there, you can bring the clip into Pippit’s video editor and edit using the app’s captions, cuts, or branding features. That way, you still save time, but don’t compromise on realism.
However, if you’re considering upgrading for longer avatar videos, it might be worth it only if you produce content in bulk and don’t mind some stiffness in the delivery. Otherwise, your phone camera and Pippit’s editing tools can do a better job together.
Speaking of upgrades, how much does Pippit AI cost? Let’s find out below. 
When I tried to check how much Pippit AI actually costs, I didn’t get an instant answer on the main dashboard. The interface initially made it seem like everything was free to use, but that changed once I began pushing the limits of the available tools. Eventually, I located the full pricing breakdown behind a separate link, which wasn’t obvious. I can’t seem to know why this is this way.
But here’s what it bills, so you wouldn’t have to search in a labyrinth maze like I did:
Pippit AI runs on a credit-based model. On the free plan, I had access to 150 credits each week, which covered around 2 minutes of video generation and up to 75 images. I could use the Link to Video feature and avatar tools, and I also had access to 500 GB of cloud storage. This free tier worked for trying things out, but clearly had limits. Once I started experimenting more, the cap became noticeable.
There’s a paid option called the Starter plan to unlock the complete set of tools. It’s priced at around $24 per month when billed annually, which provides approximately 21,600 credits per year. This higher-tier plan covers extended use of the complete feature set, including smart cropping, background removal, voice generation, poster creation, avatar customization, and analytics. You also get access to product and content management tools, bulk editing options, multi-platform publishing, and more advanced control over media exports.
It’s worth noting that Pippit doesn’t charge based on how many features you use. Everything falls under one main plan, and you’re only limited by your credits. This makes the pricing structure predictable, especially for content teams or small businesses that manage steady output across multiple platforms. You can cancel the plan anytime, and any unused credits carry over within the subscription period.
So what went well and not? 
Without beating around, let’s get into it:
Intuitive design made it easy to get started
From the first login, the interface felt clean and direct. I didn’t have to spend time figuring things out or clicking through menus to find what I needed. Everything—from video creation to image editing—was where I expected it to be. This helped me focus on content creation instead of learning the tool.
It really cuts down content production time
One of Pippit AI’s strongest points is how fast it works. If I wanted to generate a product video or convert photos into banners simultaneously, the delivery window would still work as fast. Even when testing different media types and batch tasks, there were no long waits or freezing issues. This efficiency would be especially valuable for someone managing frequent social content.
It’s well-aligned with e-commerce needs
Many of Pippit’s tools were designed specifically for online sellers. Features like the “Link to Video” option, marketplace-ready image outputs, and product-centered avatars clearly prioritize commerce use cases. I didn’t have to adapt or force my content to fit in. It felt like the platform was already structured around it.
Legal-use creative assets built in
Pippit offers templates, fonts, music, and graphics labeled for commercial use. That meant I didn’t need to worry about licensing when downloading a design or using a video clip in an ad. For someone running campaigns, that peace of mind is essential.
It combines everything in one place
Instead of switching between multiple platforms (video editors, design tools, schedulers), Pippit brings them under one dashboard. I could edit, schedule, and even link product videos to TikTok Shop from one interface. That kind of streamlining is rare and genuinely helpful.
Batch support is a time-saver
Bulk video resizing, image editing, and exports worked without any glitches. I tested this on product visuals, and it handled dozens of files without slowing down. This batch functionality could be a real productivity boost for brands with extensive catalogs.
Strong integration with ByteDance and CapCut tech
The performance and stability of the tool reflect its backing. It runs smoothly and integrates well with platforms like TikTok. Knowing that it’s part of the CapCut/ByteDance ecosystem explains the polished video tools and familiar UX touches.
The free plan has noticeable limits
While Pippit does have a free tier, it doesn’t offer full access. Credits refresh weekly; depending on how much you want to create, they can run out fast. I hit that cap early during testing and had to pause or wait for credits to renew. It’s more of a preview than a valid free option.
The credit system takes some getting used to
Credits aren’t uniform across tools. Some tasks (like avatar creation or multi-export functions) cost more, and that wasn’t clearly explained up front. It took some trial and error before I understood how to use them effectively without running out.
Not all outputs are ready to publish as-is
Although the speed of content generation is impressive, I often had to go back in and make manual refinements. Some design placements or audio transitions needed refinement. If you want a polished brand presence, expect to do some post-editing.
Customization is still somewhat restricted
While the editor has multi-track support, I noticed fewer granular options than standalone tools like Adobe Premiere or Figma. For quick jobs, it’s fine, but for users who want complete control over every visual detail, it might feel limited.
Subscription pricing may not suit everyone
Pippit doesn’t offer one-time purchases or per-project pricing. It’s subscription-based, and the advanced plans can add up. It may be difficult to justify the monthly or annual fees if you only need occasional content or work solo.
These sum up the whole experience.  Now let’s look at the 4 pippit AI alternatives.
Why it’s a strong alternative to Pippit AI: InVideo is one of the most established AI video creation tools on the market. Compared to Pippit AI, it offers deeper template customization, elaborated design controls, and more flexibility across content types, not just product videos. If you’re looking for complete creative control alongside AI assistance, InVideo offers a more versatile workflow.
Key features:
Why you should use it: InVideo is ideal if you want more freedom to create marketing videos that go beyond just product visuals. It supports multiple content goals — ads, tutorials, intros, explainers — and is backed by a responsive design engine that works across platforms.
Why it’s a strong alternative to Pippit AI: Where Pippit focuses on product showcase videos, Synthesia automates full-scale business communication. If you need a human face in your videos without filming yourself, Synthesia delivers. It’s better than Pippit for things like training videos, onboarding, demos, and multilingual presentations.
Key features:
Why you should use it: Synthesia saves time and cost when you need high-quality, human-like video presentations, especially in multiple languages or at scale. It’s more professional than Pippit for B2B needs and content that requires a human face.
Why it’s a strong alternative to Pippit AI: Pictory stands out for its content repurposing capabilities. Unlike Pippit, which builds product videos from structured inputs, Pictory extracts value from long-form content like webinars, Zoom recordings, and blogs. It’s a smarter fit if your brand already has content and wants to reuse it for social media, reels, or shorts.
Key features:
Why you should use it: If you have existing video or written content and want to turn it into a social-ready video automatically, Pictory is better equipped than Pippit. It handles content slicing and formatting more intelligently.
Why it’s a strong alternative to Pippit AI: Animoto may not use in-depth AI like Pippit, but it’s still a strong alternative for fast, visually aesthetic videos. It’s more user-friendly than Pippit for beginners and still delivers professional-looking results, especially for social ads, sales videos, and product features.
Key features:
Why you should use it: Animoto is reliable if you need automated video output from photos, screenshots, or product showcases. It’s easier to use than Pippit and great for turning simple assets into attention-grabbing social videos.
Now, let’s run through the article.
One thing that practically using Pippit AI ensured during this testing experience is clarity. This knowledge made it evident that Pippit AI is a tool for content creators who work with affiliations that do not frown at AI-generated video against human-shot and directed work, and also small e-commerce businesses, because a brand like Pepsi or Calvin Klein wouldn’t consider Pippit AI for their marketing campaigns. Pippit AI needs human refinement and has a limited touch of realism. I mean, real stuff will always stay that way, no matter what. 
The pricing is not affordable either, and it can be unclear. Pippit AI is subscription-based, but still talks about credits. So what is worth paying attention to? Although this is explained in the FAQ section below, it’s initially all over the place for new sign-ups. 
Apart from the limitations, Pippit AI’s interface is organized and navigable. It’s literally eye candy. And it’s 5 power features: One-Click Video Solution, AI-Powered Product Images, AI Avatars, and Voices
Pre-Cleared Commercial Creative Assets, Auto-Publishing, and Analytics are really encompassing. 
Lastly, I recommend you take advantage of its free trial of 100+ credits to try it out for yourself. There’s nothing to lose, and in fact, there’s a lot to gain.
Yes. You can upload your own media into Pippit AI and integrate it with templates. Just be sure your uploads are licensed adequately if they’re copyrighted. The platform doesn’t restrict uploads, but you remain responsible for rights clearance.
No. Pippit is beginner-friendly. AI powers most features, so you can create polished content without needing professional design or video editing skills.
Yes, but it depends on the type. Credits from your subscription expire when that subscription ends. If you purchase extra credits, they last up to two years. Task or event credits expire according to each offer’s rules 
No. Pippit is accessible only through a web browser. There is no dedicated mobile or desktop app available at this time.
You can cancel auto-renewal at any time using your account settings. After cancellation, the service remains active until the subscription period ends. After that, access to paid tools stops. You can re-enable it later if you return 
You can contact support through the in-app “Report a problem” button or email commercepro.support@capcut.com with your account details and reason. They’ll process refund requests for duplicate or incorrect charges promptly 
Pippit supports scheduling and publishing to TikTok, Instagram, Facebook, and others. During publishing, you can add product links that turn videos into shoppable content connected to TikTok Shop or other storefronts.
Most videos and product images are generated within seconds, even when batching tasks. Complex jobs or larger files may take longer, but the platform is designed for speed and efficiency.
Yes. As long as your subscription is active, new features may appear without additional fees. However, some advanced capabilities may still require credit use. Check in-app notifications or plan details to confirm.
To turn off auto-renewal, go to the top-right corner of your dashboard and select the “Subscription” option. From there, choose “Disable auto-renewal.” If you decide to resubscribe later, you can return to this section and click “Renew.”
Click on your profile icon at the top-right corner of the screen and open “Account Authorization.” Then, select “Details,” choose “Link,” and follow the instructions in the pop-up window to complete the connection. If you’re not already signed in on your device, you’ll need to log in to that account first.
Start by clicking your profile icon and going to “Account Authorization.” Next, open “Details,” and select “Unlink” to disconnect the current account. Once that’s done, you’ll be able to connect a different one by repeating the linking steps.
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SiteGuru Review & Tutorial: The Best SEO Audit Tool on AppSumo? – 99signals

If you’re looking for a no-BS SEO audit tool that actually tells you what to fix (and how), SiteGuru is hands down one of the best AppSumo deals available right now.
You get lifetime access to SiteGuru for just $79, with no subscriptions, no limitations (unless you’re running a massive site), and no fluff.
In this post, I’ll explain what SiteGuru does, why I think it’s one of the best value-for-money SEO tools on AppSumo, and walk you through a full video tutorial so you can see it in action before you decide.
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SiteGuru is a full-blown SEO audit tool that gives you clear, prioritized tasks every week to improve your website. It pulls data from Google Search Console and Google Analytics, analyzes every page on your site, and then gives you two things:
You don’t need to set anything up. You just connect your GSC and GA accounts, and SiteGuru takes care of the rest.
Here’s what genuinely stood out to me:
Here’s what you get with the $79 plan (Tier 1):
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The video above walks you through the complete SiteGuru experience, from setting up your site and connecting your Google accounts, to using the dashboard to identify real SEO opportunities, improve CTR, track Google updates, and export custom reports.
Prefer reading? Keep scrolling for a full breakdown of each step.
Add your website, connect Google Search Console and Google Analytics, and SiteGuru immediately begins its scan. The dashboard shows you your site’s overall health and two dedicated to-do lists — one for technical SEO, the other for content SEO.
Checks for indexing issues, page speed problems, duplicate meta tags, broken links, unlinked pages, and Core Web Vitals. Every issue comes with clear explanations and steps to fix it.
Identifies underperforming keywords based on impressions and clicks. Surfaces easy-win content opportunities so you can optimize existing pages without creating new ones.
SiteGuru helps you identify pages that are getting plenty of impressions in Google Search but very few clicks. This usually means your title tags or meta descriptions aren’t compelling enough to drive clicks.
The report highlights these underperforming pages so you can focus on rewriting metadata where it matters most. It’s one of the fastest ways to boost traffic without publishing anything new.
This is hands down one of SiteGuru’s most underrated features.
If you’ve ever suspected that a Google Core Update tanked your traffic but didn’t know where to start, this tool gives you instant clarity.
You can choose a specific update, like the June 2025 Core Update, and instantly compare your traffic before and after it rolled out. It highlights which pages gained or lost visibility, how clicks and impressions shifted, and whether your site was affected at all.
No digging through GSC reports. No guesswork. Just a clear before/after snapshot that helps you take action faster.
Export client-ready SEO reports with your own branding. You can download reports in Word, CSV, or HTML format, making them easy to customize, share, or present during client meetings.
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Hi there, I’m Sandeep Mallya!
I’m an entrepreneur and digital marketing consultant from Bangalore, India. I founded my own digital agency, Startup Cafe Digital, in 2015 to help SMBs leverage SEO, social media, and content marketing to grow their traffic and generate qualified leads for their business.
I launched 99signals in 2016 as a side project to document all the strategies, tools, and tactics that I was using to grow my small agency. The goal was simple: to arm other entrepreneurs and bloggers with all the right information and tools they needed to launch a successful online business.
Since then, 99signals has grown significantly and generates over $10,000 in side income each month. Read More about “About Sandeep Mallya”

Hi there, I’m Sandeep Mallya!
I’m an entrepreneur and digital marketing consultant from Bangalore, India. I founded my own digital agency, Startup Cafe Digital, in 2015 to help SMBs leverage SEO, social media, and content marketing to grow their traffic and generate qualified leads for their business.
I launched 99signals in 2016 as a side project to document all the strategies, tools, and tactics that I was using to grow my small agency. The goal was simple: to arm other entrepreneurs and bloggers with all the right information and tools they needed to launch a successful online business.
Since then, 99signals has grown significantly and generates over $10,000 in side income each month. Read More about “About Sandeep Mallya”
A few links on this blog are affiliate links. If you purchase a product or service through one of these affiliate links, I’ll receive a commission at no additional cost to you.
Rest assured, I recommend only those tools that I personally use and genuinely trust. In most cases, you’ll find in-depth reviews, tutorials, and how-to guides of these tools on my blog to help you make informed decisions.

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Programmatic SEO Agency Launches Revolutionary SEO System that Generates 10,000 Pages in Days – FinancialContent

Amsterdam, Netherlands–(Newsfile Corp. – August 6, 2025) – Programmatic SEO Agency (PSEO Agency) today announces the launch of its next-generation SEO infrastructure platform, built to transform how digital visibility is achieved. By automating the creation of thousands of search-optimized web pages using dynamic data, AI workflows, and advanced API integrations, PSEO Agency enables brands to deploy 10,000+ SEO-ready pages within days, eliminating the need for manual content creation, large writing teams, or lengthy development cycles.
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It is a full-service agency specializing in programmatic SEO infrastructure and content deployment. PSEO Agency builds tailored, scalable frameworks using automation, strategic content design, and proprietary systems.
These solutions unlock high-volume SEO traffic by programmatically targeting thousands of long-tail search terms efficiently and sustainably.
The announcement marks a significant departure from conventional SEO methodologies that rely on manual content creation processes. Programmatic SEO Agency’s proprietary system leverages advanced automation, API integrations, and dynamic template technology to deliver what the company calls “Just Rankings at Scale” for e-commerce companies, SaaS providers, and local businesses.
Scalable Infrastructure Built for Modern SEO
The SEO landscape has reached a tipping point where automation and data-driven strategies are becoming essential for competitive advantage. According to recent industry research from seomator.com, 37% of marketers now utilize AI to automate time-consuming SEO tasks, and a strong majority plan to further incorporate AI in the near future. 
One survey found 97% of marketing leaders believe machine learning will shape the future of digital marketing, underscoring how big data and AI are fundamentally changing SEO approaches. The global SEO services market is projected to nearly double from $37.8 billion in 2020 to $83.7 billion by 2025, a 19.6% CAGR, with 80% of large enterprises integrating APIs and 63% of SEO professionals using automation tools, according to smartdatacollective.com.
Yet, most SEO efforts are still stuck in manual cycles. PSEO Agency breaks this bottleneck by offering a central Programmatic SEO Database connected to:
Clients can build, manage, and update thousands of pages centrally, including metadata, internal links, and page structure, all via automated systems.
Scalable Infrastructure Solves Technical Challenges
The core breakthrough centers on Programmatic SEO Agency’s scalable infrastructure that connects multiple building blocks for programmatic SEO implementation. The system features a central programmatic SEO database that instantly integrates with automation workflows, website backends, and e-commerce platforms.
The architecture ensures all output generates SEO-friendly HTML optimized for Google rankings. Dynamic pages remain connected to a central management tool where structure, data, and content can be adjusted at scale across thousands of pages simultaneously.
Most existing solutions require manual intervention for certain tasks, creating bottlenecks that limit scalability. PSEO Agency’s platform achieves full automation from data collection to page generation, minimizing human intervention requirements.
Entity-Based Approach Replaces Traditional Keyword Research
The system employs a revolutionary approach to content optimization by working with dynamic entities rather than traditional keyword groupings. This methodology mirrors search engine’s natural language processing capabilities, recognizing locations, brands, specific products, and car models as distinct entities with detailed data models.
For each dynamic entity, the system expands available data by pulling specifications and categorization information. A car model entity, for example, automatically incorporates technical specifications, pricing data, and feature comparisons to build contextually rich landing pages.
“We’re essentially reverse-engineering how search engine’s knowledge graphs work by building content around entities rather than keywords,” explained a company representative. “This approach allows us to create pages that serve actual search intent rather than just targeting keyword combinations.”
i18n & LLM Optimization for International and AI Visibility
PSEO Agency includes full support for international SEO (i18n) with automatic page generation for multiple languages and currencies. It also implements hreflang tags and localization best practices, essential for scaling traffic in global markets.
In addition, all content structures are designed for AI discoverability, helping brands appear in:
This is designed to not only promote a brand’s rank on search engines, but also surface in the future of conversational and voice-based search.
Data Source Integration Creates Competitive Advantages
Programmatic SEO Agency’s platform combines multiple official data sources to create unique data points that competitors cannot easily replicate. 
The data model research process involves analyzing company-specific information or market models that provide verified data sources from official channels. The platform can connect multiple official sources to generate unique data combinations during analysis and strategy phases.
This multi-source approach ensures content provides genuine value while maintaining competitive differentiation through exclusive data combinations.
Quality Assurance Protocols Maintain Content Integrity
The platform addresses quality concerns through extensive research and strategic templating of dynamic pages. UX/UI design, content quality, and search intent analysis form integral parts of the research and strategy process.
Programmatic SEO Agency conducts a comprehensive analysis of the top 5-10 SERP results for competitive pages in search engines, comparing content elements, sections, and data points used by ranking pages. 
The quality assurance process prevents robotic or generic content by incorporating search intent analysis and user experience considerations into template design. Each page template undergoes strategic development to ensure relevance and value across thousands of generated pages.
Templates are not just “HTML wrappers”, they are strategy-infused blueprints tailored for each business niche. This maintains content depth, high-quality data, engagement, and authority, even across 10,000+ pages.
Performance Metrics Demonstrate Superior Results
The automated system delivers significant performance improvements over traditional SEO services. PSEO Agency eliminates 80% of manual work, time, and cost compared to traditional SEO services through its carefully engineered and automated approach.
Real-time data integration through API connections allows the system to pull current data for keeping pages updated, a feature lacking in many competitor solutions. This capability ensures content remains fresh and relevant for search algorithms.
The platform’s proprietary algorithms optimize internal linking, keyword clustering, and content generation in ways that differentiate it from existing solutions in the market.
Future of SEO: From Art to Systematic Science
The platform specifically targets e-commerce companies, SaaS providers, and local businesses seeking sustainable traffic growth through systematic, technology-driven methods. This focus addresses the growing demand for efficient, scalable digital visibility solutions.
The announcement represents a potential disruption to established SEO service models that rely on teams of content writers, SEO specialists, and web developers for content creation and optimization.
The goal: deliver “Just Rankings at Scale” through systems, not staff. 
About Programmatic SEO Agency
Programmatic SEO Agency specializes in programmatic SEO solutions that leverage automation and data-driven strategies to deliver search visibility at scale. The company’s proprietary platform generates thousands of SEO-optimized pages through systematic, technology-driven methods that eliminate traditional content creation bottlenecks.
For more information about PSEO Agency’s programmatic SEO services, you can visit their company website below.
Programmatic SEO Agency Website
Programmatic SEO Guide 2025
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Founder & CEO @
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info@programmaticseo.agency
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Generative engine optimization (GEO) is quickly becoming essential for brands that want to stay visible in an AI-driven world. It’s the practice of optimizing your content so tools like ChatGPT, Gemini and Perplexity can surface it. The good news? If you already have a solid SEO strategy, you’re off to a strong start.
GEO builds on the fundamentals of SEO — just with a few crucial additions. Think: clear TL;DR summaries, FAQs written in natural language, accurate schema markup and content that builds brand authority and trust (following Google’s E-E-A-T principles).
AI search may still represent a small share of overall traffic, but it’s growing fast. Now’s the time to align your SEO and GEO efforts — before your competitors do.
Everyone’s talking about AI and for good reason. It’s one of the most significant innovations in decades. But it’s not a silver bullet. Like any tool, it only creates value when applied with strategy. GEO is one way to do just that.
You may not be familiar with GEO yet, but it is catching on as the phrase that describes optimizing for AI search. It is also called AEO or answer engine optimization. 
Though they are related, they are sometimes used differently and are not entirely interchangeable. Think of it this way: You need to optimize your website and its content to show up in ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity and the like. 
Here’s the great news. GEO requires efforts that a comprehensive SEO or search engine optimization campaign already covers. 
For example:
Remember rich snippets? Those cards that used to show up in the SERPs? For now, think of AI search as a new paradigm with lower referral traffic. 
Keep in mind, AI-driven search still makes up less than 3% of market share.
This number will continue to increase as more and more people get comfortable with AI as a search alternative. Embrace this new technology and stay ahead of the curve. 
Dig deeper: How marketers can succeed with generative engine optimization
You’re already on the right track if you have a strong SEO campaign. You’ll want to pay extra attention to a few things to boost your visibility in AI search results:
Let’s look a little closer at each of these.
Large language models (LLMs) use natural language to find and generate answers to real user questions. LLMs generate answers based on patterns in their training data and sometimes by retrieving live-indexed content.
Enter FAQs — well-structured Q&A pages are especially useful to AI engines, especially when paired with FAQ schema. LLMs rely on content structured in natural language, like FAQs, which help them provide clear, direct answers from live data or indexed content.
Remember that AI engines will not always use your content as-is and may include answers from other sites in their search results. Ensure your FAQ content is spot-on and completely solves the user’s problem. 
Create and structure your FAQ pages using real questions and answers. Also, include FAQ snippets for specific service and product pages. This is helpful for your customers and AI search engines. 
Just like search engines, AI engines are looking for content they can trust. Trust comes from brand recognition, experience, expertise, authoritativeness and trustworthiness. This is known as Google E-E-A-T. 
Google has written extensively on E-E-A-T and even included definitions and instructions in their Quality Raters Guidelines to stress the importance of these attributes. 
Google has focused on producing search results based on E-E-A-T for quite some time now. They want to ensure that the results they produce are real and trusted. 
Building your brand and E-E-A-T takes effort but pays dividends in the long run. Focus on the following:
These actionable steps make your content more discoverable and useful, increasing the chance it will be surfaced by AI tools and cited in AI-powered answers.
Dig deeper: Why visibility is now the most important marketing metric
There’s been a debate lately about whether schema still matters. Well, I’m here to tell you it matters. 
Schema markup is structured data in your website’s HTML that helps search engines and AI better understand page content and serves as a quick reference guide for all search engines, including AI engines. 
Schema markup is useful, but it’s essential that it is correct. If you try to game the system and stuff keyword data in your schema markup unrelated to the page’s content, your page will not rank or get de-listed. Schema does not replace good content — it supplements it.
There are lots of plugins on WordPress and other CMS platforms that allow you to add schema data. It’s as simple as filling out a form and the results look something like this:
It is essential to include schema markup that is as accurate as possible. In addition to regular schema data, make sure to focus on:
TL;DR stands for “too long; didn’t read.” It’s a quick summary of whatever your content is about. Refer to the opening of this blog to see what I mean. 
Clear TL;DR summaries help AI systems identify and extract concise answers, which may improve how your content is used. It gives the engines short summaries they can use for queries to provide answers to people’s questions.
It’s also incredibly helpful for the user to quickly understand the content so they can decide if they want to keep reading. And, of course, schema impacts user experience. Making information easy to find and digest may keep readers on the page longer. It can also help AI locate info quickly. 
Think of schema as a table of contents for the search engines and Generative engines. They can quickly crawl schema content to determine what the information on the page is all about. 
GEO and SEO work best together. They’re like peas and carrots. If your SEO strategy is solid, you’ve laid the groundwork for success in AI-powered search. The core principles still apply — GEO just asks you to build on them with a few targeted enhancements.
Add to that:
This combo can help grow your qualified traffic and brand visibility, even though some AI answers might keep users on the AI platform without sending traffic to your website (a.k.a. zero-click risk).
As SEO expert Lily Ray points out, SEO is not going anywhere. It is more important than ever. However, GEO is going to grow in user adoption and search volume. If you focus on both using the tips outlined above, you will be doing all the right things to rank. 
Remember, these are all just tools and machines. Strategy and customer experience are your recipe for success. 
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My Exact 7-Step Framework for Brand SEO (With Templates)

Branding wasn’t something SEOs traditionally thought much about. The real wins were in non-branded keywords, where the traffic and conversions lived. 

However, that changed when Google and OpenAI turned most of these queries into zero-click searches.

For the remaining queries, search platforms directly reward authoritative and popular brands, so branding can no longer be ignored for SEO.

Here’s your brand SEO playbook for getting seen, trusted, and chosen in the future of AI-powered search.

Brand SEO is about clarifying and amplifying your brand’s voice everywhere people search. It starts with a solid brand foundation. Without that, you’ll struggle to improve visibility in AI-powered search systems.

If branding is new to you, think of it as the process of creating a distinct identity in the minds of consumers. It differentiates your business from competitors and builds a lasting impression through your name, messaging, visuals, and reputation.

So when you do brand SEO, it’s about creating consistency and ensuring accuracy in how your brand presents itself everywhere people search (Google, ChatGPT, Reddit, and beyond).

You’ll be able to define and control some aspects of your brand. For example, here’s Ahrefs’ media kit, where we make it easy for others to reference our brand the same way we do.

Ahrefs' media kit containing a logo and "About Us" blurb.

But you are not in control of the impression your brand makes in consumers’ minds (and how AI summarizes those impressions).

Why SEOs can’t ignore branding anymore 

As AI is integrated into search, brand signals are becoming a part of Google’s ranking algorithm.

For instance, Mark Williams-Cook discovered that Google uses a site quality score to classify websites, and those that fall under a certain benchmark (0.4 on a 0-1 scale) do not qualify for visibility in rich snippets.

This score is calculated based on:

  • Brand strength, measured by how many searches are made that include the brand’s name
  • User interactions (like clicks), especially when a brand does not rank in the top position
  • Branded anchor text, determining topic-to-brand connections from around the web

Not to mention that branded signals correlate with visibility in Google’s AI Overviews:

The top three factors that correlate with brand appearance in AI Overviews are branded web mentions, branded anchors, branded search volume.

Brands are also being vectorized as entities in LLMs and semantic search engines’ embedding models.

This means that machines treat your brand as a distinct organization. Then, they map other topics related to your brand to understand what you’re all about so they can summarize this information directly in search results.

When visualized, it looks like this:

A visualization of entity relationships connecting Star Wars to Lucasfilm, sci-fi, Harrison Ford, Han Solo and more.

Notice how the brand Lucasfilm is connected to its sub-brand Star Wars, which is connected to characters, actors, genres, and more?

The same network of connections is built around your brand, too.

This is the foundation of how AI systems understand your brand and how to summarize it best. So brand SEO is crucial for ensuring your brand:

  • Shows up as a distinct entity, separate from other similar-sounding entities, like Apple the company vs apple the fruit.
  • Is connected to appropriate and accurate topics for your products and services, like how Dyson is connected to vacuum cleaners and seen as an authority for that topic.
  • Has no gaps that can lead to misinformation or hallucinations in AI summaries. If your brand entity isn’t connected to topics and other entities that matter, those are gaps you need to close.

Brand SEO is not just about rankings (which only care about if you show up). It’s about how you show up to ensure favorable and accurate mentions in AI-generated responses.

Here’s the exact 7-step brand SEO framework I use.

1. Set up your brand’s online foundation 

Start by defining your brand and any key topics or things you want to connect it to. I use the “5 W’s and How” framework to get the ball rolling:

The “who” element

There are two aspects here: who you help and who you hire.

For your audience (who you help), tailor your branding to speak their language and give them the “what’s in it for me” factor upfront. For example, Obsidian is a knowledge management app. But its tagline is 100% focused on the benefit it delivers to users, and it shows up where people search:

Example of Obsidian's tagline "sharpen your thinking" appearing in search results.

Also, show the team behind the brand (i.e., who you hire) and create profile pages for each of them, showcasing their industry experience and expertise.

Example of a team profile page for an attorney at Slater and Gordon.

The “what” element

What does the business do? What topics or product categories does it want to be known for? Create dedicated landing pages for the brand’s flagship products or services.

For example, instead of having a single page with all your services, split these up into separate landing pages and add the main ones in your navigation.

Example of denture service pages linked in a main navigation, including pages for full dentures, partial dentures, acrylic dentures and more.

You could also have separate pages for unique features and attributes that matter to your audience, showcasing the things that make your brand, products or services different. For example, here’s a turf company promoting the unique qualities of its grass varieties:

Example of a landing page featuring flood-resistant properties of certain strains of turf.

It helps with SEO and search ads since you can direct visitors to the exact service or feature they’re interested in.

The “when” element

Is time a potential factor influencing your brand? If so, include this in your brand messaging, such as “24/7 support” or “up-to-the-minute” updates.

Depending on your product or service, you could also create dedicated landing pages about this USP with details like:

  • Locations open 24/7, and their contact details
  • Mobile services you offer for emergencies and the areas you cover
  • How you collect up-to-the-minute updates to report on
  • Express shipping you offer for “last-minute” purchases

Example of a 24/7 emergency page for a local vet.

The “where” element

Think of physical locations (like cities and suburbs), virtual (like the metaverse), or conceptual (like fictional worlds) that are relevant to your brand.

Create location landing pages if appropriate.

Ahrefs' anatomy of location pages that are credibility powerhouses.

The “why” element

Are the reasons why you started the brand or why you do things in a particular way important to your audience? Connect these to your unique selling proposition as part of your key messaging.

For example, purpose-driven brands can inspire loyalty among their audiences, take Who Gives a Crap as an example:

Example of Who Gives a Crap's mission statement on their homepage.

Their branding is very loud when it comes to why they do what they do. On the surface, they just sell toilet paper. However, they’ve had huge success on the sales and promotion side because of their “why”, earning thousands of links and mentions in premium publications:

An article on Vice which features Who Gives a Crap and their mission to make clean water accessible worldwide.

The “how” element

For most brands, who they serve, what they do, or why they do it is often enough to unify their brand vision. But there are rare occurrences where it all comes down to how they do things.

For example, a facilities management company I worked with struggled to define its brand. Its services spanned multiple categories (security, cleaning, labor hire, and investigations), and its audience ranged from small pubs to international government bodies.

This made both the “what” and “who” too broad to unify, a rare situation.

Surprisingly, the answer came from the “how.” By articulating its unique process, it was able to clearly define what tied together its diverse services.

NHN Group's branding, centred on the 5 C's, the process that unifies their online presence and brand messaging.

For the first time, the brand’s messaging was in alignment with how they operated offline.

The “5Ws and How” is a simple yet powerful method for defining your brand’s identity and planning how to represent it online, especially if you want people and LLMs to talk about it correctly.

You’re welcome to make a copy of my “Brand Identity for SEO” template to get started.

2. Audit your existing brand and its visibility in search 

Next, audit the current website, business profiles, social profiles, and the brand’s other owned media.

Look for inconsistencies in brand messaging or core details (like the brand’s name, address, or phone number) that do not align with its current information or style guide.

Start making a list in your project management tool, as you’ll need to clean these inconsistencies up, pronto. Otherwise, they’ll become a significant source of misinformation distributed through LLM responses.

Next, check out Ahrefs’ Brand Radar to assess your earned visibility.

Look for:

  • Inconsistencies in brand messaging or core details like, incorrect name, address or phone number details could be a problem. As can mentions of old company slogans and taglines.
  • Brand sentiment (especially negative sentiment): If mentions of your brand are predominantly negative, this could dissuade search engines and LLMs from including your brand in responses.
  • Weaknesses in brand authority affecting online visibility: If you do not have many brand mentions and links from authoritative sources, your brand’s online authority may be weak.
  • Brand popularity and traffic from branded keyword searches: If your competitors have more brand searches and demand than you do, this could lead to them also being more visible in search.

To find these potential brand-related visibility issues, start in the “Search demand” tab to get a benchmark of your branded searches:

Ahrefs' Brand Radar showing a brand's search demand and range of branded keywords.

In the “Web visibility” tab, you can find mentions of your brand around the web. I like to filter out mentions on the brand’s own website here:

Example of a filter in Ahrefs' Brand Radar to remove the brand's URL from results when looking at branded mentions across the web.

It’s also worth checking the other tabs to see the brand’s mentions on different platforms and in AI responses.

You can also look at your analytics or Google Search Console dashboards and filter for branded traffic or impressions. These are great indicators of your current level of brand awareness.

Example of metrics for branded keywords in Google Search Console.

If your brand is fairly new and you want to confirm if it’s seen as a distinct entity by Google, try searching Carl Hendy’s Knowledge Graph API Search Tool. You’ll also be able to see if your brand is getting confused with other things, or if it’s been misclassified:

Results generated by Carl Hendy's tool that searches entities in Google's Knowledge Graph API.

The idea is to get a robust picture of how machines have classified and interpreted your brand. And if you notice any gaps here or incorrect information, add them to your project management tool.

You’ll need to correct those to ensure accurate information in search responses, especially in AI features. How you go about correcting them depends on the source of the inaccurate information:

  • If it’s an owned channel (like your social profiles or business citations), you can log in and change it directly.
  • If it’s on a forum or discussion thread, you can respond and become a part of the conversation, clarifying things for your audience exactly where they’re talking about your brand.
  • If it’s on a third-party website or news, you could reach out to the author or editor and ask them to correct any misinformation they’ve published.

Your mileage may vary, but it never hurts to try. Here’s an example of Common Room, a brand that undertook such a task recently and what worked for them:

Kevin White's LinkedIn post about rebranding Common Room and the actions taken to shift LLM responses to the new messaging.

3. Find the topics your audience searches (and on what platforms) 

Next, look into untapped opportunities to gain relevant visibility from your audience. With organic traffic going down across the board, clever brands are taking a more holistic view of SEO as “search everywhere optimization”.

I start with Ahrefs’ Keywords Explorer. For example, the topic of “ergonomic chairs” has over 1,400 queries being searched in the US per month, 25,000 times.

The topic "ergonomic chairs" has 1,490 keywords searched over 25,000 times a month in the US.

This gives me a great overview of what topics I can align the brand to, especially when filtering for commercial or transactional intent. Queries with these intents lead to higher click-through rates from AI-powered search engines compared to informational queries.

However, for brand SEO, I take it a step further by looking at keyword modifiers, features, and attributes mentioned in keywords that can be used in USPs and brand messaging.

For example, for a local aged care home, there were many keywords relating to quality and price:

Example of price and quality related features and attributes included in keywords about local aged care facilities.

So, we adapted the brand’s messaging around the USP of “value for money”, making them a top recommended choice in AI responses as a result:

ChatGPT's response that listed a local aged care home first when asked about value for money.

I also go further and assess what platforms are a part of the audience’s search journey to ensure holistic brand visibility everywhere searchers are likely to look.

SparkToro is a great tool for seeing the most popular platforms for a topic. For example, for “ergonomic chair”, Twitch, Github, and Discord are used above average, indicating a strong audience demographic among coders and gamers:

SparkToro's column graph indicating most popular platforms used for the topic "ergonomic chair".

Discussions are happening on these platforms that relevant brands can contribute to. For instance, here’s a thread discussing recommendations for ergonomic chairs on GitHub:

Example of a conversation thread about the best ergonomic chairs in GitHub.

To find the conversations you can join, try using the Web Visibility report in Brand Radar. Filter the data to the platform you care about (like Reddit, in the image below) and then search for mentions of the topic on that platform:

Ahrefs' Brand Radar showing conversations on Reddit about ergonomic chairs.

Try out different things here:

  • Search for your brand mentions on each platform and assess sentiment among your audience
  • Search for competing products and get your product featured in similar conversations to them
  • Consider paying for ad real estate on pages or conversations about related topics

The idea is to protect your existing visibility and amplify it everywhere your audience searches for your brand, products, or services.

Remember to keep adding interesting insights and action items as tasks in your project management tool as you go.

4. Analyze competitors and protect your branded real estate 

At this stage, you can also do a brand gap analysis.

This is different from a content or link gap analysis. It’s about finding gaps in your brand positioning, messaging, market perception, and visibility compared to competitors while protecting your branded search results.

For example, if you want to be known as the #1 brand for a specific topic or product category, you can see how you compare against competitors. This doesn’t come down to how much content you’ve created about a topic, but rather how closely the market thinks your brand is connected to it.

I use Ahrefs’ Brand Radar for this by adding the brand I’m working on alongside its competitors:

Ahrefs' Brand Radar showing which car brands are closest to the topic of SUV's from Toyota, Honda, Ford, Tesla and Ferrari.

In this example, Toyota is most closely connected to the SUV product category, and (unsurprisingly), Ferrari is the least connected to it.

You can also see the exact terms and responses to get an idea of what topics, features, and attributes each brand is connected to:

Example of an AI Overview response as show in in Ahrefs' Brand Radar which connects brands to product categories, features and attributes consumers care most about.

For instance, Tesla is lagging behind more established car brands when it comes to it’s connection to the main category of SUV’s, but it’s leading the way for electric SUV’s, it’s specialty.

These AI responses are a great data source for analyzing your positioning against competitors and seeing how LLMs view your brand compared to theirs.

Make sure you also review your branded search results to ensure competitors aren’t hijacking them. For example, Honda is mentioned 482 times in keywords that are specifically about Toyota.

Ahrefs' Brand Radar showing competitors who are mentioned in search results for keywords that contain the brand "Toyota".

If someone searches for your brand and sees a competitor or affiliate outrank you, that’s a clear sign you’ve left the door open, and they’ve stepped in to claim your visibility.

Keep an eye on who appears in your branded SERPs. Figure out why they’re there, and how to win that space back.

For example, one client of mine, a medico-legal expert, was being outranked by a competitor for her own name. She only had a single-page site. Despite her unique name, it wasn’t enough. So we focused on reclaiming her results by:

  • Creating a Google Business Profile
  • Adding an About page
  • Cleaning up citations and social profiles
  • Ensuring consistent brand content

Afterwards, her competitor was pushed very far down the page, so she now owns the key areas of the SERPs for her name. Don’t leave the door open for others to control your branded results.

5. Implementing SEO for brand awareness 

So far, you’ve done a lot of strategizing, analyzing, and researching. It’s time to start implementing it all.

If you’ve followed the instructions above, you should have some tasks planned out in your project management tool after doing the audit and brand gap analysis. If not, take the time to add specific tasks for you or your team to implement.

For instance, common tasks I plan out for brand SEO include:

  • Create or update Google, Bing, and Apple business profiles
  • Create profiles on alternative search platforms, like Reddit
  • Update branded social media pages with new messaging
  • Create or update Wikipedia pages (for larger brands)
  • Clean up inconsistent citations and mentions on third-party sites within our control
  • Redesign the Home and About pages for consistency and adding EEAT elements
  • Create individual staff profile pages for leadership and key team members
  • Add or update organization schema to codify the technical elements of the brand
  • Optimize branded image files, like logos and favicons, to appear in search results
  • Create a topical map that aligns specific topics, features, and attributes to the brand
  • Contribute to relevant conversations on forums and discussion threads

The overall aim is to create a consistent brand footprint online so you’re seen as the go-to brand for your main product or service category.

Clean up as many inconsistencies as are within your control. Then amplify the brand’s messaging and topic alignment through its owned and paid media channels.

6. Promote your brand to build awareness 

Once you have all your ducks in a row, your brand’s online footprint has been cleaned and inconsistencies removed, it’s time to promote, promote, promote.

Core marketing skills like distribution and promotion are becoming critical to SEO for brand awareness. Good SEO plus lazy marketing doesn’t cut it anymore.

It comes down to embracing “search everywhere optimization” and getting your brand visible on all the platforms you found in Step 3. These will generally consist of:

  • Traditional search engines
  • Social media platforms
  • Marketplaces and aggregators
  • Forums and discussion threads
  • Generative AI, LLMs, and chatbots

For example, here are all the platforms I visited when looking for the best laser cutter to buy:

Example of all platforms visited on a search journey to buy a laser cutter.

You need to understand what the typical search journeys your audience goes through look like so you can show up with the right message on the right platforms.

It’s important to optimize the entire search experience, not just individual searches on Google.

Every question you answer on Reddit, every review you reply to on TrustPilot, and every post you make on social media become potential touchpoints, exposing your brand to a high-intent audience that’s actively looking for a solution you can offer.

Brand-focused link building will also help here. Think of it like doing PR. The goal isn’t to sculpt link juice.

It’s about getting your brand mentioned on authoritative and relevant publications your audience read. It focuses on:

  • Getting linked (or even linked) brand mentions
  • Aligning your brand mentions with specific topics
  • Improving the sentiment around your brand
  • Being seen by the right audiences

Example of linked and unlinked brand mentions in an article by Futurism.

These days, even without the link, brand mentions are powerful because they are still recognised by AI systems and contribute to your online brand footprint.

The stronger your footprint across all relevant platforms, the easier it is to attract profitable, repeat customers, too.

Without active promotion and amplification of your brand across these platforms, potential customers are more likely to choose a competitor they have become more familiar with over you instead.

7. Track and monitor your brand’s visibility everywhere people search 

The last step is to set up alerts and tracking dashboards to measure brand awareness so you can stay on top of your brand SEO efforts and make future brand SEO audits easier.

The easiest way to go about it is to use my colleague, Louise’s, Brand Awareness Dashboard template in Looker Studio:

A gif flicking through 6 pages of Ahrefs' brand awareness Looker Studio dashboard, complete with scorecard stats, tables, and history charts

It’s already hooked up to all our main tools via the API and makes it easy to create a live, auto-updating dashboard of the key organic brand metrics you care about, like:

  • Branded traffic over time
  • Share of Voice for branded keywords
  • Top pages and how they’re contributing to branded traffic
  • Branded keyword performance (volume, CPC, ranking)
  • The location and quality of branded backlinks
  • New/lost branded backlinks
  • Branded SERP feature ownership

If you want to be updated on new links and brand mentions more frequently, you can also set up mention alerts that go straight to your inbox:

Ahrefs Alert settings to track your brand mentions.

Final thoughts

As AI reshapes how people find and trust information, brand SEO is no longer optional; it’s foundational.

The sooner you invest in building a clear, consistent, and credible brand across all search surfaces, the more defensible your visibility becomes. It’s not just about showing up anymore. It’s about showing up with authority, accuracy, and credibility.

Start now, and future-proof your brand for the future of AI-powered search.

If you have any questions, feel free to reach out on LinkedIn anytime, or check out our growing portfolio of posts about improving your brand’s visibility in search and LLM responses.


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Domain-Level Link Metrics May Not Be Good Predictors of AI Search Mentions

Going into this study, I suspected that domain-level link metrics would not be a good predictor for mentions. I was expecting Google AI Overviews to show more of a correlation since they may use some of the traditional search signals, whereas the other systems may not. For traditional search, usually the page-level metrics are more predictive of rankings than domain-level ones.

I looked at the top 50 websites mentioned in Ahrefs Brand Radar for Google AI Overviews, ChatGPT, and Perplexity. This is across ~76.7M AI Overviews, 957k ChatGPT prompts, and 953.5k Perplexity prompts for the month of June 2025.

I compared the website mentions to their Ahrefs Rank (AR) in Ahrefs. Ahrefs Rank (AR) ranks all the websites in our database in order, by the size and quality of their followed referring domains.

Sidenote.

Brand Radar isn’t just another LLM visibility monitor, we track a large amount of queries across all of these systems and you can query for any product, service, or brand and compare vs competitors. It’s more like Site Explorer than it is Rank Tracker. Plus we have the web visibility index so that you can see how you’re talked about online and the search demand index to see how popular you are in searches.

Here’s what Brand Radar looks like.

Ahrefs Brand Radar

Let’s dig in.

Perplexity shows a moderate correlation between the mentions of its most-cited domains and their Ahrefs Rank, Google AI Overviews a very weak correlation, and ChatGPT no correlation. I was expecting Google to have a stronger relationship than Perplexity, so the results surprised me.

This correlation would likely change with a larger dataset outside of just the top 50. The top 50 are all extremely well-linked and cited websites.

I’ll give the usual correlation does not equal causation disclaimer.

Here are the Spearman rank correlations for mention share vs. Ahrefs Rank across the top 50 domains in each system:

AI Assistant Spearman Rho P-Value Correlation
Google AI Overviews -0.12 0.47 Very weak
ChatGPT 0.01 0.95 No relationship
Perplexity -0.34 0.095 Weak

Google AI Overviews over-index on UGC sites like YouTube, Reddit, and Quora, as well as encyclopedic content like Wikipedia. We’ve seen this in a few other studies already.

These sites get extra weight in mentions than their link profile predicts.

Google AI Overviews underweights on social media sites like LinkedIn, Instagram, and Facebook. Another pattern we’ve seen in other studies.

We also see a similar story with ChatGPT, where they are overweight on things like Wikipedia and news sites like Reuters, exactly like we saw before.

Perplexity also shows the same biases we’ve seen. YouTube and Wikipedia are overweight, social media sites are underweight.

Final thoughts

I’m not sure this is enough of a sample size to get a good measure. We actually saw higher correlations in Google AI Overviews compared to DR when we studied 75k sites than we saw in correlations to normal Google rankings across 1 million keywords, 0.326 vs 0.131.

We’ll run a bigger study beyond the top 50, as well as look at some more page level metrics for more insights.

If you have questions, ask me on LinkedIn or X.


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