What it is.
All nine are changes you make to a page: add citations, inject statistics, add attributable quotations, smooth the prose so it parses, use the technical terms of your field, write with earned confidence, link to high-trust domains, add original insight, and keep the language plain.
Around them sits an execution loop. Identify the 20 to 30 queries your buyers are most likely asking AI engines, apply the techniques to the pages that should answer them, then monitor across platforms, because visibility can vary 4-6x for the same query set.
Slate's own guide and Slate sells AI visibility software. The nine techniques are changes to your own pages, so they cost nothing to test.
What you get.
- Nine named techniques, each with the change to make on the page.
- A starting query set size of 20 to 30 questions your buyers ask AI engines.
- The platform variance figure, at 4-6x for the same query set, which is why single-platform checks mislead.
- The recency finding: content updated within 2 months earns more citations.
- An audit, improve, and monitor loop to run the nine techniques inside.
How to set it up.
Write down the 20 to 30 queries your buyers are most likely asking an AI engine.
Check who gets cited on each of those queries across all four major platforms.
Pick the pages that should be answering those queries and audit them against the nine techniques.
Start with citation addition and statistics injection, because both add something a model cannot generate on its own.
Add attributable quotations, since concrete language gives an engine something to quote directly.
Refresh anything older than 2 months on those pages, then re-check the same query set monthly.
Use cases
Make a change today
Pick one of the nine techniques and apply it to a page this afternoon.
Size your query set
Start with the recommended number of questions your buyers ask.
Work through in order
Take the techniques as a sequence instead of a menu.
Best for
Pages that rank and never get cited
The nine techniques are page-level changes, so you can test them on content already ranking.
Deciding where to start on GEO
Nine ranked techniques beats a list of principles when you have one sprint.
Setting up monitoring
The 4-6x variance between platforms is why checking one engine tells you almost nothing.