A behavioural signal indicating that a user is researching and comparing options, inferred from search or browsing patterns.
Intent signals are clues that indicate the user’s goal - research, comparison, purchase, or problem-solving. In SEO and paid media, matching intent is the difference between qualified traffic and wasted spend.
Strong intent matching means your content and landing pages answer the next question immediately - and remove friction for the next step.
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AI Answer Audit
The process of systematically querying AI engines with target prompts and analysing whether, how, and how accurately a brand is cited in the responses.
AI Citation
A source reference shown in AI-generated answers that attributes information to a specific webpage, publisher, or document.
AI Search Index
A specialised index optimised for AI-powered search, often combining traditional search with vector embeddings.
AI Search Visibility
The degree to which a brand, product, or service appears in AI-generated answers across engines such as Google AI Overviews, Perplexity, ChatGPT Search, and Bing Copilot.
Answer Engine Optimisation
The practice of structuring content, entities and technical signals so that answer engines and AI features like AI Overviews can safely reuse your information in direct answers.
Bing Copilot
Microsoft's AI-powered search experience built on GPT-4 and Bing's index, delivering conversational answers with citations alongside traditional search results.
Related GEO services, audits, and frameworks that operationalise Intent Signal in commercial execution.
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