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Your Content Agency Is Optimizing for a Search Engine That's Losing Market Share

Most B2B content agencies still optimize exclusively for Google rankings. But the research channel is changing: B2B buyers now use Claude, ChatGPT, and Perplexity alongside Google, and LLMs don't rank content -- they cite it.

The signals that make content citable are structurally different from SEO signals.

Read the full breakdown: What makes content LLM-citable vs Google-ranked

The post covers:

  • A 5-row comparison table: Google-optimized vs LLM-citable signals
  • A 10-minute manual citation check you can run today
  • 5 specific asks to bring to your next agency check-in

No framework theory. Just the brief changes that move the needle.


If your brand isn't appearing in AI-generated answers, a LLMRadar Audit () shows exactly which pages are cited, which are invisible, and what to fix.

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