House painting

Tri-County Painters has 26 pages live and a blocked CMS while cite fell on paired questions

Mention held. Cite dropped. New publishing is stopped because WordPress returns HTTP 202.

26Published answer pages
81→79%Same-question mention
72→55%Same-question cite
202WordPress blocked, HTTP status
“Same-question mention stayed 81% to 79%. Same-question cite fell 72% to 55%. WordPress is blocked. The live pages remain. New pages cannot ship.”
AP
Appear probe measurementtri-countypainters.com, paired questions plus CMS status

The Challenge

Tri-County Painters is a local painting company. Appear published 26 answer pages. Mention on paired questions was already high and stayed high.

Cite fell. The name is still in answers. The domain is cited less often than it was in the first window.

WordPress now returns HTTP 202 and is marked blocked. Until that is fixed, the study is a freeze frame, not an active publish loop.

Before Appear

  • Same-question mention at 81%.
  • Same-question cite at 72%.
  • WordPress accepting publishes.
  • Local painting prompts already naming the company often.

After Implementation

  • 26 published pages still live.
  • Same-question mention 79%.
  • Same-question cite 55%.
  • WordPress blocked on HTTP 202. No new pages.

Platform Performance

Citation rate growth across major LLMs after implementation.

ChatGPT mention, last 21 daysstanding
Baseline: 81%Current: 45%
Perplexity mention, last 21 daysstanding
Baseline: 81%Current: 74%
Claude mention, last 21 daysstanding
Baseline: 81%Current: 52%
Gemini mention, last 21 daysstanding
Baseline: 81%Current: 54%

Implementation Timeline

Publish run

26 pages live

Appear shipped local painting and service pages.

Paired window

Mention holds, cite falls

The same questions kept the name and dropped the citation.

Now

WordPress blocked

HTTP 202. The loop is stopped until the CMS accepts publishes again.

Pages live, CMS blocked, and the cite rate sliding?

Appear measures the freeze. Reconnect the CMS and the publish loop starts again. The paired window stays honest either way.

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