AI marketing on AskThis
How to earn visibility in the AI era — get your content read, cited, and referred by AI engines, then measure it.
People increasingly ask AI instead of searching. AskThis helps your content win in that world — not by gaming anything, but by making your pages easy for engines to read, cite, and refer. This section is the strategy layer; each step links to the how-to.
The flywheel
- Get read — give answer engines clean, structured signals about each page with AI Graph tags and an llms.txt index.
- Get shared — the widget’s “Ask AI” buttons route your readers into ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini and more with a source-citing prompt. Turn them on in Configure buttons & engines.
- Get cited — when engines answer with your content, they cite you. Track it and your share-of-voice with Win AI citations.
- Get referred — cited answers send visitors back to you. That’s AI referral traffic.
- Measure — close the loop with the AI Intent Score, AI referrals, and benchmarking.
Where to start
New to this? Do the 5-minute get-cited setup first — it turns on the three things that matter most, then come back for strategy.
Why it’s different from classic SEO
Classic SEO optimizes for a ranked list of blue links. Answer Engine Optimization (AEO)
optimizes for being the source an AI cites in its answer. The levers are related but not
identical: structured ai:* metadata, a citable one-line summary, discoverable key pages,
and measuring citations rather than rankings. AskThis gives you all four.