Geo Brand Mentions

This scans where your brand is actually mentioned across platforms that matter for AI citations, then gives you a 0-100 authority score with specific recommendations. The core insight is solid: unlinked brand mentions on YouTube, Reddit, and Wikipedia correlate about 3x more strongly with AI visibility than traditional backlinks, based on Ahrefs' December 2025 study of 75,000 brands. It checks whether you have an active YouTube channel, if people mention you in Reddit threads, if you have a Wikipedia page, and scores each platform separately. Most useful if you're trying to get cited by ChatGPT, Perplexity, or AI Overviews and need to know which gaps to fill first. The platform-specific scoring rubrics are detailed enough to actually guide your next moves.

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$ npx -y skills add zubair-trabzada/geo-seo-claude --skill geo-brand-mentions --agent claude-code

Installs into .claude/skills of the current project.

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Brand Mention Scanner Skill

Core Insight

Brand mentions correlate approximately 3x more strongly with AI visibility than traditional backlinks. An Ahrefs study published in December 2025, analyzing 75,000 brands across AI search platforms, found that unlinked brand mentions -- references to a brand name without a hyperlink -- are a stronger predictor of whether AI systems cite and recommend a brand than Domain Rating or backlink count.

The critical finding: the platform where the mention appears matters enormously. Not all mentions are equal. A mention on YouTube or Reddit carries far more weight for AI citation than a mention on a low-authority blog, because AI training data and retrieval systems disproportionately index high-engagement platforms.

This inverts a core assumption of traditional SEO. In traditional SEO, a backlink from a high-DR site is the gold standard. In GEO, an unlinked mention on Reddit or a YouTube video description may be more valuable than a dofollow backlink from a DR 70 blog.