Tracking How Often AI Recommends Your Brand
Measure how frequently AI systems recommend your brand when users ask for suggestions in your category.
Overview
Recommendation rate tracks how often AI systems actively recommend your brand when users ask for options, solutions, or 'best' products in your category.
Why It Matters
Recommendations are the highest-intent AI mentions. When AI recommends you, users are actively considering options and your brand is positioned as a viable choice.
How to Measure
Test recommendation queries for your category
Track inclusion in 'best of' and comparison responses
Monitor recommendation consistency across platforms
Compare recommendation rate vs. competitors
Benchmarks
Excellent: Recommended in 40%+ of relevant queries
Good: Recommended in 20-40% of queries
Average: Recommended in 10-20% of queries
Poor: Recommended in <10% of queries
Improvement Strategies
Create comprehensive product/service pages
Build strong review presence
Develop use case-specific content
Increase brand authority and recognition
Recommended Tools
AI recommendation testing protocol
Competitive recommendation tracking
Review monitoring tools
Brand mention monitoring
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