GEO approaches: do it yourself, tracking tools, or a service
What is Citeshine (citeshine.com)?
citeshine.com appears to be an online store/domain that has had limited publicly available information. I could not find evidence of a well-established company or service operating under the name “Citeshine.”
The public report cuts off at: “The domain citeshine.com was reported as”
The other named prompt in the same report (zh07: 引耀 Citeshine 是什么公司？靠谱吗？) 我查了一下，“引耀 Citeshine”这个名字目前没有找到一个非常明确、知名度较高的公司主体。搜索结果里能对应上的主要是一个叫 citeshine.com 的电商网站记录，以及一些名字相近但并非同一家公司的企业。目前能看到的信息：Citeshine.com：有 Shopify 电商平台记录，域名注册于 2021 年 12 月，曾显示销售手机壳/手机配件类商品，但公开信息较少，没有发现明确的公司介绍、负责人、实体地址或可靠的品牌背景。
That Chinese answer describes a Shopify store record for citeshine.com, domain registered December 2021, phone cases and accessories.
Share of voice in the same 13 answers
Raw substring counts from the report (answers mentioning the name / 13, and share of the 27 mention-rows). Not our ranking and not a review of these companies.
| Name | Answers | Share of mentions |
|---|---|---|
| 智推时代 | 4/13 | 4/27 |
| Animalz | 2/13 | 2/27 |
| Citeshine | 2/13 | 2/27 |
| First Page Sage | 2/13 | 2/27 |
| Omniscient Digital | 2/13 | 2/27 |
| iPullRank | 2/13 | 2/27 |
| Siege Media | 2/13 | 2/27 |
| Profound | 2/13 | 2/27 |
| Peec AI | 2/13 | 2/27 |
| Otterly | 2/13 | 2/27 |
| 微盟星启 | 1/13 | 1/27 |
| Directive Consulting | 1/13 | 1/27 |
| Graphite | 1/13 | 1/27 |
| AthenaHQ | 1/13 | 1/27 |
| Scrunch AI | 1/13 | 1/27 |
People use “GEO” for three different jobs. Mixing them up is how a team buys a dashboard and still has a wrong product description.
| Approach | What it is | What it does not do |
|---|---|---|
| Do it yourself | A fixed list of buyer questions, run more than once, with the engine, date and sample size written down. Our open-source tool is citeshine-audit. | It does not edit the pages an engine retrieves. |
| A tracking tool | Software whose job is ongoing measurement: mentions, citations, competitors, over time. | A chart does not correct a stale third-party page. |
| A service that changes sources | Someone traces a claim to the page behind it, edits what can be edited, and re-tests the same questions. That is the work we sell. | Nobody can type a new answer into ChatGPT and have it stick. We do not guarantee a recommendation. |
What our one sample showed
The share-of-voice table above is every name in the public day-0 report. Profound, Peec AI and Otterly are in it at 2/13 each, next to agencies and other tools, also as raw counts. Citeshine is in it at 2/13 because two prompts asked about us by name. The write-up notes two limits of those counts: one of the four 智推时代 / GenOptima hits is only a source label, and two English answers that said “Directive” without “Consulting” were not counted. Those are notes on the matching rules, not a score we assigned.
We have not subscribed to Profound, Peec, Otterly or the agencies in that list. We are not saying they are ineffective, and we are not saying we outperform them. We have no published client results.
How we price our side of it
The free sample is $0: ChatGPT only, up to 5 buyer questions, and a short summary of whether you are mentioned, what is wrong, and which sources are cited. Starter is $99 for all six engines, up to 10 questions, a competitor comparison, the cited-source list, and a prioritized written fix list. Ongoing work is a base fee plus a results bonus, and we have not published those amounts. The bonus is paid only when a re-test meets a target agreed in writing.
FAQ
Is this a ranking of Profound, Peec and Otterly?
No. In our 2026-10-13 logged-out ChatGPT sample they each appeared in 2 of 13 answers. That is a raw substring count from one run, n=1. We have not used those products and we are not publishing their prices.
Which approach should we pick?
If you need a number, start by measuring. If the problem is a wrong or missing description, measurement alone does not change the pages the engine reads. We sell the second part, and we also publish an open-source tool for the first.
Do you disparage other companies?
No. We do not do negative GEO. The table above is the report's count of names, including source labels, not our opinion.
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