The 2026 GEO channel checklist: 10 places to check before you assume you're invisible in AI search

Before you conclude your brand is invisible in AI search, check these ten channels: crawler logs, product pages, listicles, Reddit, YouTube, LinkedIn, review sites, the entity layer, unlinked mentions, and AI ad surfaces.

Key takeawaysn n- One prompt test in one engine proves almost nothing. ChatGPT cites about five sources per web-search response; Google AI Overviews and Perplexity each cite around ten. And the engines draw from very different source pools.n-