geo-brand-mentions
Helps your agent find brand mentions on the internet. It checks the brand's authority and online visibility.
What it does
This tool checks where your brand is mentioned online, even without a direct link to your website. It identifies which platforms are most important for artificial intelligence (AI) to recommend you.
When to use it
- ✓To understand how AI perceives your brand.
- ✓To know where to get valuable mentions.
- ✓To increase the chances of being recommended by AIs.
Example of what to ask your AI
“Analyze my brand mentions and tell me which platforms are most important for AI.”
Want more? Open the sections below.
How to use
The easiest way: copy the message below and paste it into Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor or any AI. It reads the skill and follows the instructions.
Skill link
Ready-to-paste message
How it works
The tool scans for your brand's mentions across various websites. It prioritizes mentions on popular, high-engagement platforms because AI systems use this data for learning and citation.
Installation
Easiest way: copy the skill link and paste it into Claude, ChatGPT or Cursor asking it to follow the instructions.
In the terminal (Claude Code, Codex, Cursor), in your project folder:
npx skills add sickn33/agentic-awesome-skills --skill geo-brand-mentionsOr download just the file:
curl -L https://raw.githubusercontent.com/sickn33/agentic-awesome-skills/main/plugins/agentic-awesome-skills-claude/skills/geo-brand-mentions/SKILL.md -o SKILL.mdTechnical content (original SKILL.md)
Original text by the author, straight from GitHub.
Brand Mention Scanner Skill
Core Insight
Brand mentions correlate approximately 3x more strongly with AI visibility than traditional backlinks. An Ahrefs study published in December 2025, analyzing 75,000 brands across AI search platforms, found that unlinked brand mentions -- references to a brand name without a hyperlink -- are a stronger predictor of whether AI systems cite and recommend a brand than Domain Rating or backlink count.
The critical finding: the platform where the mention appears matters enormously. Not all mentions are equal. A mention on YouTube or Reddit carries far more weight for AI citation than a mention on a low-authority blog, because AI training data and retrieval systems disproportionately index high-engagement platforms.
This inverts a core assumption of traditional SEO. In traditional SEO, a backlink from a high-DR site is the gold standard. In GEO, an unlinked mention on Reddit or a YouTube video description may be more valuable than a dofollow backlink from a DR 70 blog.
Contents
- Platform Importance Ranking for AI Citations
- Composite Brand Authority Score
- Analysis Procedure
- Output Format
- Brand Authority Score: [X]/100 ([Rating])
- Platform Detail
- Recommendations
- Competitive Context
- Key Takeaway
- Reference Data
When to Use
- You need a Generative Engine Optimization task for a website: audit, citability, crawlers, schema, llms.txt, content, platform tuning, or client reporting.
- Run read-only analysis first; propose site changes before making any.
Limitations
- Audits are read-only analysis; never publish, deploy, or modify the target site without explicit approval.
- Scores and citation likelihoods are heuristics, not guarantees from AI search platforms.
- Docs-only import: upstream scripts, agents, hooks, and schema templates are not bundled.
Example
curl -s https://example.com/robots.txt
curl -s https://example.com/llms.txt
Adapted from zubair-trabzada/geo-seo-claude (MIT); frontmatter, When to Use/Limitations, and safety boundaries added for upstream compliance. Docs-only import: upstream runtime helpers not bundled.
FAQ
What are 'unlinked mentions'?
These are instances where your brand's name appears on a website without a clickable link directing to your site.
Why are platforms like YouTube or Reddit important for AI?
Because AI learns from data on sites that many people visit and interact with, and these platforms typically have high engagement.
Does this tool change how websites are optimized for search?
Yes, it suggests that mentions on popular sites can be more valuable for AI than traditional links from reputable sites.
Details
Original description by the author
Brand mention and authority scanner for AI visibility.
Popularity
- GitHub stars
- 48k
- Ranking position
- #3100
- License
- MIT
- Updated
- 10/15/2026
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