B
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78%
78% -- cross engine citation rate for Pages scoring ≥12 of 16 E-E-A-T signals (GEO-16 framework) (2026)
Pages scoring at least 12 of 16 E-E-A-T signals under the GEO-16 framework achieve a 78% cross-engine citation rate across ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Google AI Overviews.
- correlational practitioner research, not controlled experiment
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78%
Unit
Percentage
Data Vintage
2026
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Evidence Quality
B
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Score breakdown
Extraction
75
Source Trust
60
Citation Chain
20
Independence
30
Methodology
45
Freshness
95
Source
arXiv
Primary
Tier B
https://betteraisearch.com/tactics/eeat-seo-ai-search ↗
Source Article
E-E-A-T Optimisation for AI Search
Original Research
arXiv
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Methodology
Practitioner research (arXiv cross-platform study); correlational, not controlled experiment
Methodology documented
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Industrymarketing
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Pages scoring ≥12 of 16 E-E-A-T signals (GEO-16 framework): 78% cross engine citation rate. Source: arXiv (2026). Via Lighthouse Intelligence -- https://lighthousedata.io/data/geo16-cross-engine-citation-rate
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