AI search answers
How do I measure AI search visibility?
Short answer: Measure AI visibility with a fixed question set asked on a fixed schedule across every engine that matters, recording who gets named on each question. The output is a share-of-voice percentage per engine plus a list of the specific questions where a competitor owns the answer. Keyword rankings do not measure this and cannot substitute for it.
Build the question set once
Use the questions a buyer asks before purchasing, in their words: best provider for X, how much does X cost, X vs Y, is X worth it, who should I hire for X. Freeze the list. Changing questions between runs destroys comparability, which is the entire value of the measurement.
Ask every engine, on a schedule
Answers vary between engines and drift over time, so a single spot check tells you almost nothing. MyFast.ai scans ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Grok, DeepSeek and Meta AI monthly with 100+ buyer-intent queries and reports the change rather than the snapshot.
What to record
- Whether your brand was named at all
- Which competitors were named alongside or instead of you
- Whether a URL of yours was cited, and which one
- The exact questions where you are absent — these become the content plan
Why analytics will not show you this
A recommendation inside a generated answer often produces no click at all. The user reads your name and acts later, so referral traffic understates the effect badly. This is why the scan is the primary instrument and analytics is secondary.
People also ask
- How often should I scan?
- Monthly is enough to see direction without chasing noise. Weekly checks mostly measure model variance.
- Can I do this manually?
- Yes, for a small question set. It becomes impractical once you are asking a hundred questions across six engines every month.
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