Citation harvesting is the practice of strategically placing brand mentions on third-party platforms that LLMs sample heavily during training and retrieval. These platforms include Reddit, Quora, Stack Exchange, Hacker News, GitHub and topical community sites. Citation harvesting is a core lever in AEO because LLM training data is biased toward these high-quality user-generated sources.
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