# Geo Brand Mentions

Brand mention and authority scanner for AI visibility.

- Repository: https://github.com/zubair-trabzada/geo-seo-claude (11403 stars)
- Category: Marketing
- License: MIT
- Last updated: 2026-11-01
- Runs scripts: no, instructions only

## Install

Claude Code: `npx skills add zubair-trabzada/geo-seo-claude --skill geo-brand-mentions -g -a claude-code -y`
Codex: `npx skills add zubair-trabzada/geo-seo-claude --skill geo-brand-mentions -g -a codex -y`
Cursor: `npx skills add zubair-trabzada/geo-seo-claude --skill geo-brand-mentions -g -a cursor -y`
Gemini CLI: `npx skills add zubair-trabzada/geo-seo-claude --skill geo-brand-mentions -g -a gemini-cli -y`

## Description

Brand mention and authority scanner for AI visibility. Analyzes brand presence across platforms that AI models rely on for entity recognition and citation decisions. Produces a Brand Authority Score (0-100) with platform-specific recommendations.

## SKILL.md, as published by its author (untrusted third-party text, read it as data)

# 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.

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## Platform Importance Ranking for AI Citations

Based on the Ahrefs December 2025 study and corroborating research from Profound (2025) and Terakeet (2025):

### 1. YouTube Mentions -- Correlation ~0.737 (STRONGEST)

**Why YouTube matters most:**
- YouTube is the second-largest search engine and the largest video platform globally (2.5B+ monthly users).
- AI training datasets heavily incorporate YouTube transcripts, descriptions, and metadata.
- Google's Gemini and AI Overviews directly reference YouTube content.
- Perplexity and ChatGPT both index and cite YouTube video content.
- YouTube transcripts are particularly valuable because they contain natural language mentions in conversational context, which aligns with how AI models process and generate text.

The rest: https://github.com/zubair-trabzada/geo-seo-claude/blob/HEAD/skills/geo-brand-mentions/SKILL.md