
Claude Citation Study: What Actually Gets Cited
New research analysing 379,000+ Claude citations shows brand websites dominate, Reddit is invisible, and social media barely matters for AI visibility.
Answer-led guides for local businesses that want better search visibility, stronger AI citations and clearer growth systems.

New research analysing 379,000+ Claude citations shows brand websites dominate, Reddit is invisible, and social media barely matters for AI visibility.

A practical look at how UK local businesses appear in ChatGPT, Perplexity and AI Overviews, and the groundwork that actually supports it.

AEO helps local businesses become easier for search and AI answer systems to understand, extract and recommend.

Local businesses need SEO for discovery and AEO for direct answers, comparisons and AI recommendations.

AI recommendations depend on clear business information, useful content, trust signals and consistent evidence across the web.

Local businesses disappear from AI answers when their website and public signals do not give answer systems enough confidence.

The right choice depends on call type, booking complexity, coverage needs and how often a human needs to step in.

A strong local service website has clear service pages, local proof, useful FAQs, simple conversion paths and supporting answer-led content.

The UGC formats dominating beauty feeds.

100,000 searches a month for beauty salon near me.

49 percent of UK consumers now use AI tools.

TikTok is now the primary discovery platform.

Most new treatment launches fail.

UK beauty spend is up 10.7 percent.

Visibility, conversion and follow-up.

The page-level leaks.

Lapsed patients as growth channel.

Front door moved to AI answers.

Fast audit for AI mentions.