Notes on SEO monitoring, AI SEO performance, and how to keep tabs on your brand.
Across 40 major brands × 60 prompts × 6 AI engines, 31%–72% of triggered answers cited only third-party domains, never the brand's own site. On Perplexity, the brand's own domain is cited in ~0% of answers. Trustpilot, BBB, ConsumerAffairs, and Reddit narrate your brand when you're absent.
Scrape Grok three ways: xAI's official API, DIY web-UI automation, or a managed endpoint. Compare X-grounded sources, anti-bot risk, and cost clearly.
Across six AI engines and six verticals, citation depth varies ~20×: Google AI Mode averages 15–22 sources per answer, ChatGPT/Gemini/Copilot land around 4–8, and Perplexity ranges from ~4 down to literally zero depending on the topic. Reddit sits top-2 in every vertical. AI Overview decides whether to answer at all: it triggers on 98% of shopping queries and 3% of dining.
There is no Google Alerts API and never has been. Here's why free alerting lags breaking news, plus a full build-your-own alerts pipeline in Python.
We ran the exact-phrase pipeline on 18 of cloro's own articles: 27.8% had a detected non-cloro copy, a copy outranked the original 22.2% of the time, and 39 distinct republisher domains showed up. Here's the build recipe, plus how to get copies taken down.
The cloro OpenClaw plugin adds seven AI search monitoring tools to your agent — check how ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Gemini answer any prompt. Also connects over MCP.
SERP API reliability at 10k+ daily requests — uptime SLAs, latency under load, and concurrency across cloro, SerpAPI, DataForSEO, and Bright Data.
Most typosquat coverage stops at registration counts. In cloro's July 2026 study of 400 dnstwist-style permutations across 15 brands, 66% resolved to a live site, and of the resolving squats we checked, 53% were already Google-indexed. Registration isn't reach. Indexing is.
The definitive reference for Google News RSS feeds: search and topic URL anatomy, geo/language params, the documented limits, and measured reliability data.
