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Using LinkedIn for AEO: How marketers can use social media to improve their AI visibility [experiment]

Over the past few months, I noticed a pattern while researching for clients. Perplexity for B2B reports or insights that I could cite for a project, the source list would look like this:

Using LinkedIn for AEO: How marketers can use social media to improve their AI visibility [experiment]

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Over the past few months, I noticed a pattern while researching for clients.

Perplexity for B2B reports or insights that I could cite for a project, the source list would look like this:

Gartner, McKinsey, peer-reviewed paper, then … John Smith on LinkedIn?

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Over the past few months, I noticed a pattern while researching for clients. Perplexity for B2B reports or insights that I could cite for a project, the source list would look like this: Gartner, McKinsey, peer-reviewed paper, then … John Smith on LinkedIn?

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Gartner, McKinsey, peer-reviewed paper, then … John Smith on LinkedIn?

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