by Kerone Liu · learning in public · Mar 3, 2026 · 13 min read
How an AI search engine gets itself cited by other AI search engines. The GEO flywheel, mapped end to end.
THE RECEIPTS
Perplexity publishes structured, citable answer pages that other engines happily quote — turning its own output into an indexable, authority-building surface.
The flywheel: answers get cited → citations build authority → authority wins more citations. It is GEO applied to itself.
The full crawl, the keyword map, the exact fixes, and the copy-paste template live inside the club. 9.6M visits a month, reverse-engineered.
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