For Publishers

Turn your editorial archive into AI citation gold.

Publishers with deep archives get cited 3-5× more than new sites — if the content is discoverable. Georion audits, refreshes, and tracks how ChatGPT and Perplexity use your reporting.

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Georion for Publishers is the AI visibility platform for newsrooms, digital magazines, and editorial brands in 2026. Research from Profound's 240M citation analysis shows that established publishers account for 38% of all ChatGPT citations when the content is schema-complete and freshness-maintained — but only 12% for sites with stale dateModified or missing Article schema. Georion audits every article (242 checks including 61 GEO-specific), tracks how AI engines cite your archive across 6 engines, and monitors AI-referred traffic as a separate channel in the Traffic Analytics+ dashboard.

47.9%

Of ChatGPT citations are Wikipedia-style

38%

Publisher share when schema-complete

13wk

Max age for 50% of AI citations

6

AI engines tracked

The problem

What publishers struggle with in 2026

1

Archives are invisible

Years of great editorial sitting behind missing Article schema, stale dateModified timestamps, and incomplete author bylines. AI engines can't extract what isn't properly marked up — your archive is dark matter.

2

AI referral traffic is a black box

ChatGPT and Perplexity drive growing referral traffic, but GA4 bundles them into 'direct' or 'other'. Editorial can't prove AI is delivering readers, so it's impossible to justify AI-first content investment.

3

Competitors win on freshness

50% of ChatGPT-cited content is under 13 weeks old. If you're not refreshing evergreen pieces with new stats and updated dateModified quarterly, newer publishers win the citation even if you wrote the seminal article.

How Georion solves it

Purpose-built for publishers

242-check editorial audit

Audit Engine+ runs 242 signals across every article: Article schema completeness, author byline E-E-A-T signals, dateModified freshness, outbound authority links, fact density per 300 words, FAQ schema, citation markup.

6-engine citation tracking

Sensor+ monitors how ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Perplexity, Copilot, and Grok cite your publication daily. Silent Citations detects unlinked brand mentions so you can reclaim authority.

AI referral traffic analytics

Traffic Analytics+ breaks ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Claude referrals out as their own channels. See exactly how many readers arrive from each AI engine — track per-article, per-section, per-author.

Freshness automation

Auto-detect articles with dateModified older than 90 days. Claude rewrites them with updated 2026 stats, refreshes the dateModified stamp, and pings IndexNow for fast Bing re-indexing (which ChatGPT Search uses).

Multi-engine sitemap sync

Auto-generate llms.txt + robots.txt with allowlists for 30+ AI bots (GPTBot, ClaudeBot, PerplexityBot, OAI-SearchBot, Google-Extended, Meta-ExternalAgent). Keep AI crawlers engaged with your archive.

Author & entity optimization

Entity Graph maps your bylines into Wikidata and Schema.org Person. Editorial authority signals feed directly into how AI engines weight your reporting vs anonymous competitors.

FAQ

Questions, answered.

Why do publishers need a separate AI visibility tool?+

Traditional SEO tools (Semrush, Ahrefs, Chartbeat, Parse.ly) measure Google organic and direct traffic — they don't track which AI engines cite your reporting, how citation rates change day-over-day, or whether schema gaps are hiding your archive from ChatGPT. Publishers that ignore this dimension lose share of voice to newer, more GEO-optimized competitors within 12-18 months.

Does Georion work with WordPress / Drupal / custom CMSes?+

Yes. WordPress plugin (free) auto-deploys llms.txt, applies Article + FAQPage schema, fixes dateModified timestamps, and pings IndexNow on publish. Drupal module available. Custom CMSes integrate via Developer API or our MCP server. Supports up to 1M+ URL archives without performance issues.

What about GDPR and editorial independence?+

Georion is GDPR compliant with a full DPA available. We never train AI models on your content. Editorial independence is preserved — no auto-publishing of AI content without human approval (content generator is human-in-the-loop). Full audit logs for every user action and schema change.

How does this compare to Chartbeat or Parse.ly?+

Chartbeat and Parse.ly measure real-time reader engagement on your site (scroll depth, article recirculation). Georion measures AI discoverability (whether ChatGPT cites you) and AI referral traffic (readers arriving from AI engines). They're complementary — Chartbeat optimizes on-site engagement, Georion optimizes off-site AI visibility.

Can I track per-author citation rates?+

Yes. Entity Graph links each author byline to tracked Prompt queries. See which reporters generate the most AI citations, which topics get cited most, and which articles drive AI referral traffic. Report-ready for editorial leadership reviews.

What about news-specific AI queries?+

Sensor+ tracks news-intent prompts ('what happened with X', 'who is Y') across 6 AI engines hourly for publishers on the Agency tier. Breaking news cycles are tracked in real-time with citation attribution alerts.

Do you integrate with newsroom tools?+

Yes. Slack notifications for citation events. Webhooks push AI visibility data into Airtable, Notion, and custom newsroom dashboards. Developer API (Pro+) supports direct Looker Studio / Tableau connections.

Turn your archive into an AI citation engine.

From $179/mo Pro. Includes 242-check editorial audit, 6-engine citation tracking, and freshness automation.

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