Proof AI SEO works: $100K deal, 10K visits, zero backlinks

You’ve been doing everything the "experts" told you to do.

→ Publishing 3 blog posts a week.
→ Optimizing for featured snippets.
→ Adding schema markup.
→ Hiring SEO agencies.
→ Refreshing old content with “2025” in the title.

You’re spending $3,000/month on writers. Another $2,000 on SEO tools.

Countless hours researching keywords, building backlinks, and checking your Google rank every damn morning.

And when your ideal customer asks ChatGPT for the best solution in your category?

Your brand doesn’t even show up.

Here’s the brutal truth most AI SEO “gurus” won’t tell you:

ChatGPT doesn’t read your website.

AI reads who talks about you not what you say about yourself.

And right now? The internet is talking about your competitors.

Just vague advice about “creating quality content” and “being authoritative.”

So last week, we hosted our first-ever Vibe Marketer Mentor Session.

A live deep dive on AI SEO: How to Actually Get Your Brand Cited by ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Gemini.

Over 200 founders and marketers from across the globe showed up.

Mentor: Rokas Stan, founder of AIclicks, the tool tracking AI visibility for 500+ brands across ChatGPT, Perplexity and Gemini.

He’s one of the most active contributors in The Vibe Marketer Community
and he’s been in the trenches testing what actually gets brands cited by AI.

The session turned into a 90-minute masterclass where he revealed
the exact framework he uses to get brands cited by AI.

Not theory. Not “best practices.” It was tactical, repeatable and immediately actionable.

This 10-minute excerpt alone is worth your time.

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Here’s the part no one talks about:

It goes to:

Your beautiful website? Not even in the top 40 sources.

This isn’t SEO anymore. This is reputation arbitrage.

o how do you actually win this game? Rokas broke it down into a framework..

Rokas uses this framework for AI Clicks clients.

He tracks 100-200 prompts per client and reverse-engineers what AI actually cites.

Run 100-200 prompts your customers would ask. Track every source ChatGPT cites.

Example prompts:

List sources by frequency — the most frequent are your targets.

Pro move: Use FIB Bot to monitor Reddit keywords. Get notified the second someone mentions your category — then jump in with value (not spam).

If you’re not listed here, you’re invisible:

✅ For SaaS/Agencies: Clutch, G2, Capterra, “There’s an AI for That”

✅ For Local Businesses: Google Maps, Yelp, TripAdvisor

✅ For Everyone: Product Hunt, Reddit, Quora, Medium

✅ Most directories are free. Some charge $50-$200 to get featured in 50+ directories at once.

It’s the lowest-hanging fruit in AI SEO.

This is where the real money is.

ChatGPT loves citing listicles like:

Your mission: Find the authors writing these pieces. Reach out.

The framework that works:

Sometimes they’ll add you for free. Sometimes you’ll pay $100-$1,000 for a mention.

Either way - one listicle = months of AI traffic.

Okay, but does this actually work? Or is this just more marketing hype? Here are some case studies that will blow your mind.

a. A SaaS automation tool closed a $100,000 deal because ChatGPT recommended them.

Not because they had the best blog. Not because they ranked #1 on Google.

Because they were cited in sources ChatGPT trusts.

b. An e-commerce brand has been generating $5,000/month purely from AI recommendations.

c. Mark Lou’s Ship Fast (a dev tool) is making $2,000/month from ChatGPT citations alone.

d. Lenny’s Newsletter is getting more traffic from ChatGPT than Twitter close to 10,000+ monthly visits from AI.

Same strategy. Different industries. Same result: Get featured where AI is already looking.

ChatGPT has 2.5 billion daily queries. Perplexity is growing 300% year-over-year.

Your competitors are still writing blogs hoping Google notices.

You? You’re going to dominate the sources AI already reads.

Old SEO: Rank #1 on Google.

New AI Search: Get cited by sources AI trusts.

You’re not optimizing for algorithms anymore. You’re optimizing for authority by association.

Google taught us to build great websites. AI is teaching us to dominate the internet.

So the next time someone asks ChatGPT for the best tool in your category?

Your name will be the one it cites.

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