SEO expert Ethan Smith discusses which digital domains and platforms are most frequently cited by generative AI search models.
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“It generally, so LMs, the classes of domain types of domains that are cited frequently, video and UGC are huge.
Instagram, TikTok, LinkedIn, I am not seeing X that much.
And then video and YouTube shows up a lot.”
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