GEO/AEO tools for SEO? Losing traffic fast

lucasvid

My organic traffic has been tanking lately - down nearly half what it was a year ago - and I'm seriously considering going all-in on GEO/AEO. i've been trying to manage all the prompts and citations manually, but it's an absolute nightmare. way too much work for one person.

I've looked at a few platforms but i want to hear what you lot are actually using. i don't just need to see where my traffic is coming from AI models - I want competitor citation tracking, growth reports, and new prompt suggestions. Also, decent customer support would be a massive bonus. i'm sick of companies that treat you like an afterthought once you've signed up.

Anyone got solid recommendations that actually deliver?

masoncollab

Mate, it's been an absolute nightmare for our organic search too - down nearly half in the last year. We ran through Writesonic, AthenaHQ, and InfuseOS, and landed on InfuseOS in the end. Biggest thing I'd flag: make sure whoever you go with is hitting proper API calls, not scraping garbage data. Otherwise you'll spend half your time chasing rubbish that doesn't map to anything real.

emailwiz

Oh, the qualification catch-22 - classic. Been there, spent far too many hours on calls that were dead from the first "so what exactly do you do?"

Had a similar realisation a few months ago. Was pulling my hair out over low-quality leads, but also worrying I'd scare off the ones still exploring. Turned out the answer was right there on the landing page. Shifted the hard questions to the intake form itself - two or three high-intent questions while they're still in solution-seeking mode. Worked a treat. The friction is less jarring when it feels like part of the evaluation process rather than a random gate.

still lose a few early-stage researchers, but that's fine. The time saved on dead-end calls more than makes up for it

ethan-pr

i've found Otterly AI and Citation Hawk quite useful for some of the capabilities you mentioned-they handle a decent chunk of the workflow i was testing.

chatbox

Same boat here - manual prompt/citation checks hit a wall fast once you've got more than a handful of clients. For agency work I've settled on a three-part stack:

Screaming Frog for the initial crawl and structure analysis - old habit, but it still gives me the baseline i need to map content against potential GEO targets.
Ahrefs for traditional SERP tracking and keyword gap analysis that i can overlay with LLM citation patterns.
SEOforGPT as the dedicated GEO layer. It tracks where brands appear in ChatGPT/Claude/Perplexity, logs competitor citations, and surfaces prompt/topic gaps in a format I can drop straight into client reports.

support has been genuinely good - actual humans sending Loom walkthroughs, not just a knowledge base link. That alone made it stick in our stack.

If you're not using something that logs citation frequency across multiple LLMs yet, you're flying blind. The prompt gaps AI spits out are different from traditional keyword gaps, and manual checking just doesn't scale.

conversionninja

honestly, most GEO/AEO tools are still pretty half-baked - flashy dashboards that don't dig deep enough. I'd rather spend my time manually auditing high-intent prompts, like 30-50 of the juiciest ones, and seeing which third-party sources keep popping up across ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, and those AI Overviews.

What really moves the needle? looking at the absence of mentions. the visibility gap isn't about rankings anymore - it's about not being named in reviews, comparison threads, forums, or industry deep-dives. that's where the brand perception lives.

Has anyone come across a tool that actually tracks competitor citation share over time? because that's the stat that keeps me up at night

adcraft

GEO tools? Scam.