B
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44.2%
44.2% -- share of llm citations from first 30 percent of page for AI search engines (ChatGPT, Perplexity, Google AI Overviews) (2026)
44.2% of LLM citations come from the first 30% of a page's text.
- The underlying primary research study is not explicitly named or dated in the text.
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44.2%
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Percentage
Data Vintage
2026
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Evidence Quality
B
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Score breakdown
Extraction
50
Source Trust
60
Citation Chain
20
Independence
30
Methodology
45
Freshness
95
Source
proaisearch.com
Primary
Tier C
https://proaisearch.com/geo-content-strategy-framework/ ↗
Source Article
GEO Content Strategy: Step-by-Step Playbook for 2026
A GEO content strategy is your systematic plan for creating, structuring, and distributing content that gets cited by AI search engines like ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Google AI Overviews. I first started thinking about this as a distinct discipline when I was working on content for VEGA AI at LearnQ …
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AI search engines (ChatGPT, Perplexity, Google AI Overviews): 44.2% share of llm citations from first 30 percent of page. Source: proaisearch.com (2026). Via Lighthouse Intelligence -- https://lighthousedata.io/data/llm-citations-first-30-percent-44-2
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