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Your AI Visibility Session Starts Now
See how HubSpot's AEO tools reveal where your brand shows up in AI search
— and what to do next.
The Webinar By Chapter:
How AI Search Is Changing Buyer Behavior
Search is no longer limited to Google. Buyers are turning to ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and Perplexity for answers before they ever visit a website. This chapter covers why traditional SEO metrics are becoming less predictive, and what the change means for the way you plan visibility.
- How buyer discovery is changing in the AI era
- Why traffic alone is no longer the best measure of visibility
- The rise of answer engines and AI-generated recommendations
- What this shift means for your marketing strategy
Why Most Brands Don't Know If AI Can Find Them
Most marketing teams have visibility into rankings, traffic, and conversions. Far fewer have any insight into how AI platforms perceive their brand. This chapter maps the gap between traditional search reporting and AI-generated recommendations.
- Why AI visibility is difficult to measure today
- Common gaps in traditional SEO reporting
- How AI tools decide which brands to mention
- The risks of being invisible in AI-generated answers
The Signals That Influence AI Recommendations
AI engines don't rank content the same way search engines do. This chapter breaks down the factors that influence citations, recommendations, and brand mentions, including authority, relevance, content structure, and trusted sources.
- The key signals AI platforms use to evaluate content
- Why authority and trust carry more weight than ever
- How content structure impacts discoverability
- What separates cited brands from ignored brands
A Practical Framework For Improving Visibility
Adapting content strategy for AI search starts with a small set of principles. This chapter covers the core Answer Engine Optimization (AEO) fundamentals, the content opportunities they open up, and the website improvements that make brands more discoverable in AI-generated answers.
- The fundamentals of Answer Engine Optimization (AEO)
- How to create content AI can easily understand and cite
- Website optimizations that improve AI discoverability
- Practical actions you can take immediately
Using HubSpot AEO To Track Performance
See how HubSpot's new AEO tools help marketers understand brand visibility, monitor competitor share of voice, analyze citations, and identify opportunities to improve discoverability across AI search platforms.
- How to measure visibility across AI platforms
- Which AEO metrics to prioritize first
- Ways to benchmark against competitors
- How to identify and prioritize optimization opportunities
Turn Insights Into Action
The final chapter turns the session into a sequence you can act on. It covers how to evaluate your current AI visibility, what to prioritize first, and how to build an AEO strategy that holds up as buyer discovery keeps changing.
- How to assess your current AI search presence
- Where to focus your optimization efforts first
- Steps to build an AEO strategy inside HubSpot
- A roadmap for long-term AI visibility success
Why Watch?
Get Ahead of AEO With HubSpot.
Buyers are asking ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and Perplexity for answers before they ever reach your website. The session shows how HubSpot's new AEO tools help you track brand visibility, read prompts and citations, spot competitive gaps, and identify the next steps that improve how your brand shows up.
Measure Your Visibility
See how often your brand appears in AI answers, and where you are being overlooked across the answer engines your buyers use.
Track the Right Prompts
Focus on the buyer questions that shape discovery, not generic keywords or guesswork, using prompt tracking in HubSpot AEO.
Understand What AI Is Citing
See which pages, domains, and content types influence AI answers in your category, and why competitors may be getting the mention.
Know What To Do Next
The session ends with practical recommendations you can apply through content, website updates, and HubSpot execution.
Put AI Visibility Into Practice
The search landscape is undergoing its most radical transformation in 25 years. Traditional ranking signals are giving way to LLM probability scores, and keywords alone no longer decide who gets surfaced. Being the trusted citation does.
Here is how the ideas in this session apply across the teams inside your organization.
See Where You Stand
Our free AEO Visibility Audit reveals:
- Which prompts your brand appears for
- Which competitors may be gaining visibility
- The sources and citations influencing AI-generated answers
- Opportunities to improve discoverability
The report takes less than two minutes to generate and gives you a clearer picture of how your brand is being surfaced across ChatGPT, Perplexity, Google AI Overviews, and Claude.
FAQ's.
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Where does AI visibility fit alongside the metrics marketing teams already track?
AI visibility adds another layer to existing marketing metrics. Rankings, traffic, and conversions show what happens after buyers reach your site. Visibility, citations, share of voice, and prompt coverage show what happens earlier, when buyers are researching and comparing vendors.
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What do brands that consistently appear in AI recommendations have in common?
They answer buyer questions clearly and completely. They also maintain consistent topical coverage, demonstrate expertise and authority, earn trusted mentions across the web, and structure content so AI systems can easily understand and reference it.
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Why do AI platforms cite some brands and overlook others?
AI platforms look for trustworthy answers, not simply strong SEO performance. Brands that earn citations typically combine credible authority signals with clear content, direct answers, supporting evidence, examples, and broad coverage of topics their buyers care about.
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Can competitors have stronger AI visibility even if they rank lower in traditional search?
Yes. AI platforms do not always use the same signals as traditional search engines. A competitor can have stronger authority, broader topic coverage, or more trusted citations and appear more often in AI recommendations even when they rank below you in search results.
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How can you tell if an AI visibility problem is a content, authority, or technical issue?
Start with a visibility audit and look for patterns. Missing buyer prompts usually point to content gaps. Existing content that competitors get cited for can indicate an authority gap. Content that is not being surfaced at all may require a review of technical accessibility. Many teams find a combination of all three.
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What surprises companies most in their first AEO Visibility Audit?
Most teams discover that their brand is less visible than expected. They also find competitors appearing in places they were not monitoring and discover larger prompt coverage gaps than anticipated. Visibility can also vary significantly across AI platforms.
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What should you look at first in an AEO audit report?
Start with overall brand visibility to understand the headline result. Then look at the prompts most relevant to your business, competitor visibility and share of voice, and the citation sources behind those results. Together, these areas reveal the clearest opportunities to improve discoverability and authority.
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Should you create new content or improve existing content first?
Improving existing high-value content usually comes first. Pages that already earn traffic or rank well have an existing foundation of authority. Making those pages clearer, more useful, and more authoritative can create faster gains. New content can then fill the gaps your existing content does not cover.
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How do prompts fit into content planning and campaign strategy?
Prompts show how buyers describe their questions in their own words. That makes them useful for identifying content ideas, campaign themes, and gaps in existing coverage. They also provide a direct view of the questions buyers are asking during research.
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How should demand gen teams plan campaigns when buyer research happens before the website visit?
Campaigns should account for influence before the click. Buyers may use AI to research vendors and build shortlists before visiting a website, so demand gen teams need assets that build visibility and authority across the research journey. Traffic and form fills remain important, but they are only part of the picture.
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What should you focus on first when improving AEO?
Start with a baseline of your current AI visibility. Identify the prompts that matter most to your business, see where competitors are gaining visibility, and focus on a small number of high-impact opportunities. A baseline gives you a clearer foundation for deciding what to improve.
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How do you improve visibility for prompts where your brand is currently missing?
Create or improve content that directly answers the prompt. Lead with a clear answer, demonstrate relevant expertise, and organize the information so AI systems can easily understand and reference it. The goal is to build useful, authoritative coverage around the questions your buyers are already asking.
See Where Your Brand Stands
Find out which AI engines cite your brand and which ones miss it entirely. Free, and it takes two minutes.
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