B
Evidence Grade B
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78%
78% -- cross engine citation rate for GEO-16 compliant pages (2026)
Pages scoring at least 12 of 16 GEO quality pillars achieve a 78% cross-engine citation rate across Brave, Google AIO, and Perplexity.
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Evidence graded
Value
78%
Unit
Percentage
Data Vintage
2026
Entity
Evidence Quality
B
Strong, reliable evidence
Sourced from a well-regarded research firm or industry leader with transparent methodology and a reasonably large sample.
Single source - not yet corroborated
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/perplexity-citations-ai-search ↗
Source Article
Perplexity SEO for AI Search Citations
Original Research
arXiv
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Methodology
arXiv study; pages scoring ≥12 of 16 GEO quality pillars with GEO-16 score ≥0.70
Methodology documented
Segmentation
Industrymarketing
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GEO-16 compliant pages: 78% cross engine citation rate. Source: arXiv (2026). Via Lighthouse Intelligence -- https://lighthousedata.io/data/geo16-cross-engine-citation-rate-78
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