Recommendations

Other tools stop at the dashboard. Referenced hands you the fix.

After every scan, Referenced turns what it found into one ranked list of work: the page to write, the thread to answer, the publication to pitch, how AI describes you, and anything blocking AI crawlers.

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Action Summary · After scan 21 Aug Ranked by answers affected
High

Write "choosing your first ultra shoe"

You are absent from nine answers that name two rivals. One page covers all nine.

High

Allow answer crawlers in robots.txt

Your robots.txt blocks a crawler that answer engines use, so they cannot read your pages.

Medium

Answer the returns thread

Cited on five negative answers and still unanswered. Draft a reply to edit.

Medium

Answer the returns criticism

Engines keep saying returns are slow. Say how your returns work, plainly, on your returns page.

Low

Pitch runnersworld.com

Cited on 21 answers, never beside you.

Low

Answer the sizing theme

Five answers say the shoe runs small. Say plainly how it fits.

Every line is computed first and written second. Nothing is posted without you. Refreshed every scan

Four kinds of action

Your own site, third-party pages, how AI describes you, and technical access.

Replies and pitches drafted

Ask for a reply to a thread or a pitch to a publication, written in your context and ready to edit.

Nothing auto-posted

No account connections to post on your behalf. You read it, you change it, you send it.

Refreshed after every scan

The list is ranked again after every scan. An action the AI stops suggesting closes after two scans in a row, and one whose gap is gone closes straight away.

What is GEO?

Generative engine optimisation is the work of getting named in the answer: being on the sources engines quote, answering plainly on a page they can use, and being described in terms a buyer wants to hear.

Not SEO with a new label

There is no ranking to climb and no page two to be relegated to. There is one answer, it names two or three brands, and you are in it or you are not.

SEO GEO
Rank in ten blue links Be one of three names
Optimise a page for a keyword Answer the question the way it is asked
Backlinks from anywhere Citations from the sources engines quote

What a recommendation is made of

Numbers first, sentence second. Every recommendation shows the facts it was computed from, so you can disagree with the advice without doubting the arithmetic.

Recommendation · 21 Aug High

Write "choosing your first ultra shoe"

Hoka and Merrell are named in all nine answers to this question across three engines. You are named in none of them, and no page of yours is cited on any of them.

Computed from Answers affected 9 Rivals named 2 Engines 3 Your citations 0
Facts come from the scan. Only the wording is written. See the nine answers →

One list, ranked by answers affected.

Every action shows how many of your stored answers it affects, so the biggest job is at the top whatever kind it is. Each plan keeps a set number of actions open per site: 5 on Brand, 10 on Pro and 15 on Agency.

# Kind
1

Your own site

Pages to write or improve where rivals are named and none of your pages is cited.

Looks for

Rivals are named in answers that do not cite you

2

Third-party pages

Threads to answer and publications to pitch that engines already cite.

Looks for

A cited page never names you

3

How AI describes you

Unflattering claims that keep recurring, with an honest response to each.

Looks for

The same claim repeats across enough answers

4

Technical access

A robots.txt rule that blocks a crawler answer engines use.

Looks for

An answer crawler is blocked from your site

Four kinds of work, ranked by what it is worth.

Each kind comes out of the same scans and is ranked on the same scale, by how many answers it affects. Technical access, such as a robots.txt rule that blocks an answer crawler, joins the same list.

Your own site · by answers affected 14 OF 40
"Best cushioned shoe for a first 50k?" Hoka leads −100
"Most comfortable trail shoe for long days?" Hoka leads −67
"Trail shoes for wide feet?" Altra leads −34
Three of these are the same objection: cushioning over long distance.

Where dashboards stop.

Most tools in this category measure well and end there. The difference is not more charts; it is that the chart hands over a job with the reasoning attached.

Tells you the score moved
Names the prompt and the answer behind the move Sometimes
Ranks what to do next by answers affected —
Drafts replies and pitches —
Shows the numbers each recommendation was computed from —

Recommendation questions, answered.

Where they come from, how often they change, and what stays your decision.

Does it post or publish anything for me? +

No. Every draft (a reply or a pitch) is yours to read, edit and send. Nothing is posted automatically, and nothing is written to your site.

How often are recommendations refreshed? +

After every scan. The list is ranked again. An action the AI stops suggesting closes after two scans in a row, and one whose gap is gone closes straight away, so the list keeps up with what is true.

Where do the recommendations come from? +

They are built from the answers stored in your scans: who is named, which pages are cited, how AI describes you, and whether your robots.txt blocks an answer crawler. Each action shows the facts it was computed from. The facts are computed first and only the wording is written.

What counts as a content gap? +

A prompt where a competitor is named in every answer and you are named in none of them, weighted by how many rivals and how many answers are involved, not a single missed mention.

How many actions do I get? +

Each plan keeps a set number of open actions per site, the highest ranked first: 5 on Brand, 10 on Pro and 15 on Agency. Each one shows the numbers it was computed from.

Stop reading dashboards. Start closing the gaps.

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