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Treat your website as only one of many surfaces and actively build presence on platforms like Reddit, G2, and forums where AI pulls evidence. Manage sentiment because reviews and unresolved complaints become training signals and citations in future answers. Target platform-specific authority since different models favor different sources, such as Wikipedia and Reddit for ChatGPT or LinkedIn and G2 for Perplexity.
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