ChatGPT named BYLTup on 73% of answers after eight weeks and cited it on 64%. OpenAI crawler hits rose from 2,409 to 6,188 versus late July.
“After eight weeks, ChatGPT: 73% mentioned, 64% cited. OpenAI crawler hits rose 2.5x. Licensed Long Beach roofer still went from never named to 7 of 8 answers.”
BYLTup is a Long Beach roofer. The questions that matter are local and specific: licensed in Long Beach, emergency leak, GAF-certified, who to call tonight.
Early Appear probes on those prompts named nobody, or named a competitor. The site had no answer pages that engines could cite.
Gemini still almost never cites. By late August it mentioned BYLTup on 83% of answers and cited it on 3%. That gap is the product, not a rounding error.
Citation rate growth across major LLMs after implementation.
Appear published the first BYLTup answer pages into WordPress.
Licensing, emergency, GAF, and local service pages went live and stayed live.
On the 36 questions that existed in both the early-July and late-August windows, mention rose 68% to 79% and cite rose 42% to 55%.
Appear writes the pages engines can cite, then measures the same questions until the name shows up.
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