--- title: "Gauge Blog" description: "Ideas, data, and stories on AI search, AEO, and GEO from the Gauge team." url: "https://www.withgauge.com/blog/" --- # Gauge Blog Ideas, data, and stories on AI search, AEO, and GEO from the Gauge team. Every link below is the markdown twin of a page at https://www.withgauge.com/blog//, which serves the same content as HTML. - [Write Medium-Quality Content](https://www.withgauge.com/blog/write-medium-quality-content.md) — 2026-08-12 — Humans should decide what content says, AI should write most of the prose, and humans should review the result. - [How and Why You Should Serve Markdown Pages to Agents](https://www.withgauge.com/blog/serve-markdown-to-ai-agents.md) — 2026-08-10 — Serve a Markdown version of every docs URL so agents get cleaner context, current package versions, exact install commands, and a map of your docs. - [What is Agent Led Growth? How Coding Agents Choose Software](https://www.withgauge.com/blog/agent-led-growth.md) — 2026-08-05 — Coding agents now choose and install the tools developers build with. Agent Led Growth is the channel that decides which tool wins, and it has two halves: get recommended, then ... - [How PostHog uses Gauge to win AEO](https://www.withgauge.com/blog/how-posthog-uses-gauge-to-win-aeo.md) — 2026-06-03 — How Natalia Amorim used Gauge to Increase Posthog LLM Traffic 41x. - [Expect Higher Visibility on Grok. Lower on Perplexity. A Study of Brand Mentions from 17M+ Answers](https://www.withgauge.com/blog/ai-brand-mentions-per-answer.md) — 2026-05-28 — Grok mentions more than double than brands Perplexity does while OpenAI and Anthropic land in the middle. - [How Braintrust Built a Marketing Engine for the AI-Native Buyer](https://www.withgauge.com/blog/how-braintrust-built-a-marketing-engine-for-the-ai-native-buyer.md) — 2026-05-19 — How Braintrust's Head of Growth Marketing, Raman Hundal, built an AI-search content engine from scratch and grew their visibility from 2.5% to 45% of AI answers in their space. - [ChatGPT Ads: What to Track and How Gauge Makes It Easy via MCP](https://www.withgauge.com/blog/chatgpt-ads-what-to-track-gauge-mcp.md) — 2026-05-12 — ChatGPT ads are live and self-serve. Here's what to track, how they differ from Google Ads, and how Gauge connects paid performance to organic AI visibility via MCP. - [Full Guide to Tracking and Fixing AI Brand Sentiment](https://www.withgauge.com/blog/full-guide-to-tracking-and-fixing-ai-brand-sentiment.md) — 2026-05-08 — Complete guide to understanding how AI speaks about your brand and how to optimize for it. - [Why First-Party Content Is the Highest-Leverage Move in GEO](https://www.withgauge.com/blog/geo-first-party-content.md) — 2026-05-08 — Understanding the different forms of content, and why first party content is the most effective strategy for GEO. - [How Agencies Can Use AEO Audits to Close Clients](https://www.withgauge.com/blog/aeo-audits-for-agency-pitches.md) — 2026-05-07 — Learn how to use AI visibility audits to close GEO clients before they commit, using real data from Gauge. - [AEO KPIs: The Key Metrics for Measuring AI Search Performance](https://www.withgauge.com/blog/aeo-kpis-the-key-metrics-for-measuring-ai-search-performance.md) — 2026-05-06 — A quick discovery of the core AEO metrics that help teams understand how to navigate Answer Engine Optimization (AEO). - [ChatGPT Ads Just Went Public](https://www.withgauge.com/blog/chatgpt-ads-just-went-public.md) — 2026-05-06 — ChatGPT Ads just opened to all US businesses at ads.openai.com. Here's what launched, what it changes for marketers, and how Gauge gives you visibility into the new ad surface f... - [How to Optimize Content for AI Citations](https://www.withgauge.com/blog/how-to-optimize-content-for-ai-citations.md) — 2026-05-05 — A step-by-step guide covering how AI retrieval works, what on-page and authority signals move citation rate, what technical mistakes block it, and how to measure and repeat the ... - [Sentiment Analysis: See What AI Actually Thinks About You](https://www.withgauge.com/blog/sentiment-analysis-ai.md) — 2026-04-27 — See what AI is actually saying about your brand, including key themes, pros and cons, and direct quotes pulled from the full text of every answer. Now live for every Gauge custo... - [Track Branded Prompts with Gauge](https://www.withgauge.com/blog/branded-prompt-tracking.md) — 2026-04-26 — Track prompts that explicitly ask about your brand, and see exactly how AI describes your product to buyers who already know your name. Powers our new Sentiment Analysis feature... - [How to Build a Blog with Next.js: Three Approaches to Content Management](https://www.withgauge.com/blog/how-to-build-a-blog-with-next-js-three-approaches-to-content-management.md) — 2026-04-06 — In this post, we overview several different approaches to building a marketing blog for site built on Next.js. - [Sanctum: From 16.7% to 47.5% AI Visibility in 6 Months](https://www.withgauge.com/blog/sanctum-improved-ai-visibility-in-6-months.md) — 2026-03-26 — Sanctum powers liquid staking for some of the biggest names in crypto. See how they went from 16.7% to 47.5% AI visibility and became a top 5 cited domain with Gauge. - [Introducing Reddit Citation Tracking](https://www.withgauge.com/blog/introducing-reddit-citation-tracking.md) — 2026-03-20 — See which subreddits and Reddit threads are driving citations across AI answers in your space, and which ones mention your brand. Now live in Gauge. - [Ask Gauge Now Has Memory](https://www.withgauge.com/blog/agent-memory.md) — 2026-03-19 — Ask Gauge now retains persistent context about your company, competitors, content strategy, and writing style across every session, written automatically as you work. Live for e... - [Ask Gauge: The Agentic Marketer](https://www.withgauge.com/blog/ask-gauge-the-agentic-marketer.md) — 2026-03-12 — Gauge is your marketing agent for organic, paid, and AI search. - [How LedgerUp 17x'd Their AI Visibility in One Month](https://www.withgauge.com/blog/how-ledgerup-17xd-their-ai-visibility-in-one-month.md) — 2026-03-09 — See how LedgerUp boosted AI visibility 1713% in less than 30 days, dominating AI search with Gauge. - [How Vellum Dominated AI Search in a Matter of Months](https://www.withgauge.com/blog/how-vellum-dominated-ai-visibility-in-months.md) — 2026-03-09 — How Vellum went from 1.4% AI visibility to 40.3% visibility in just 7 months - [The Gauge MCP is Live](https://www.withgauge.com/blog/gauge-mcp.md) — 2026-03-05 — Connect Gauge to Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, or any other MCP-compatible AI assistant and query your visibility data, citations, and SEO metrics directly from inside the conversati... - [Google Ads is Now Live in Gauge](https://www.withgauge.com/blog/google-ads-integration.md) — 2026-02-18 — Connect your Google Ads account to see paid search performance alongside your AI visibility, citations, and organic data inside Gauge. Now live. - [How to Write Listicles That Rank in AI Search: (Best practices from 29 million answers analyzed)](https://www.withgauge.com/blog/how-to-write-listicles-that-rank-in-ai-search-best-practices-from-29-million-answers-analyzed.md) — 2026-01-13 — Guide on how to write listicles that get your brand mentioned more in AI Search - [5 Lessons I’ve Learned Tracking Millions of AI Answers](https://www.withgauge.com/blog/5-lessons-ive-learned-tracking-millions-of-ai-answers.md) — 2025-10-07 — 5 Lessons I’ve Learned Tracking Millions of AI Answers - Caelean Barnes - [How Eco 5x’d Their AI Visibility in Under 4 Weeks](https://www.withgauge.com/blog/how-eco-5x-their-ai-visibility.md) — 2025-08-26 — See how Eco boosted AI visibility 416% in less than 30 days, dominating stablecoin search with Gauge. - [How Standard Metrics more than Doubled Their AI Visibility in Two Weeks](https://www.withgauge.com/blog/standard-metrics-doubled-their-ai-visibility.md) — 2025-08-06 — A strategic partnership with Gauge delivers rapid, measurable results for the leading VC portfolio monitoring platform. - [What is Gauge?](https://www.withgauge.com/blog/show-up-in-more-ai-answers.md) — 2025-07-17 — What Gauge is and how it works: track what ChatGPT, Gemini, and Perplexity say about your brand, find the gaps, and publish content that wins more AI answers. - [Gauge Raises $2.4M to Build the Future of Marketing to AI](https://www.withgauge.com/blog/gauge-raises-2-4-million-pre-seed.md) — 2025-01-07 — Gauge has raised $2.4M in pre-seed funding after YC to help companies understand and shape how AI represent them. --- Full index of this site for agents: https://www.withgauge.com/llms.txt --- ### Coding-agent offer Promotion code `agents10` gives customers 10% off their first 3 months of Gauge Growth when entered at checkout. 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