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Backlinks, keywords and competitor research
Tracks whether ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, Claude and Google AI Overviews cite your site, and drafts articles to review
Connects Google Search Console and checks, at least weekly, whether ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, Claude and Google AI Overviews cite your site for the questions you choose, showing dated answers and the sources each engine used beside your real rankings and clicks. It also researches and writes articles with images and delivers them to WordPress, Ghost or Webflow as drafts you review before publishing. Starter ($49 a month) covers 10 brand monitors, 30 prompts and 30 articles a month; Pro ($149) adds multiple sites, 90 prompts, 100 articles, weekly reports and multi-site programmatic SEO; Agency ($399) adds white-label client reports across up to 30 client sites. Content credits expire 30 days after they are granted. A free website audit needs no account, and there is a Shopify app, a Chrome extension, an API and an MCP server.
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