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geo-brand-mentions

Brand mention and authority scanner for AI visibility. Analyzes brand presence across platforms that AI models rely on for entity recognition and citation decisions. Produces a Brand Authority Score (0-100) with platform-specific recommendations.

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# Brand Mention Scanner Skill

## Core Insight

Brand mentions correlate approximately 3x more strongly with AI visibility than traditional backlinks. An Ahrefs study published in December 2025, analyzing 75,000 brands across AI search platforms, found that **unlinked brand mentions** -- references to a brand name without a hyperlink -- are a stronger predictor of whether AI systems cite and recommend a brand than Domain Rating or backlink count.

The critical finding: **the platform where the mention appears matters enormously.** Not all mentions are equal. A mention on YouTube or Reddit carries far more weight for AI citation than a mention on a low-authority blog, because AI training data and retrieval systems disproportionately index high-engagement platforms.

This inverts a core assumption of traditional SEO. In traditional SEO, a backlink from a high-DR site is the gold standard. In GEO, an unlinked mention on Reddit or a YouTube video description may be more valuable than a dofollow backlink from a DR 70 blog.

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## Platform Importance Ranking for AI Citations
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