Harjot Chopra

Co-Founder, PageLens.ai

Harjot Chopra is co-founder of PageLens.ai, based in Bengaluru. He has spent the last several years building and scaling internet businesses, and now works on how brands get named and cited in AI answers across ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini and Google's AI Overviews and AI Mode.

33 articles

Third-Party Brand Mentions and GEO: Evidence and a 20-Prompt Audit

What the research says about outside brand mentions in AI answers, why engines cite different sites, and a 20-prompt audit to find the pages worth earning.

Oct 28, 2026 · 6 min read

AI Visibility Audit: A 450-Answer Sheet and a Tool Rule

Run 30 buyer prompts three times on five AI engines, score mentions, citations and accuracy, check crawler access, and choose between hand audit and tracker.

Oct 14, 2026 · 15 min read

AI Visibility Tools: 10 Compared on Price, Engines, Publishing

Compare ten AI visibility tools on price, engines and publishing. See what each plan buys, how many runs a score needs, and five checks to run before you buy.

Oct 14, 2026 · 13 min read

Writesonic Alternatives: 8 Tools Ranked, With Prices

Compare eight Writesonic alternatives with prices as of October 2026, from AI search trackers to writers, and run six checks before you switch plans.

Oct 14, 2026 · 13 min read

Profound Alternatives: 6 Tools on Price, Engines and Content

Compare six Profound alternatives on US prices, AI engines covered and content included, from tracking-only tools to platforms that publish pages.

Oct 14, 2026 · 10 min read

AI Citation Tracking: How Many Answers Make a Number Real

Learn how many AI answers you need before a citation rate is reliable, how engines and tools differ, and how to log, cost and test citation tracking.

Oct 14, 2026 · 12 min read

Google AI Mode Ads: What Runs, Who's Eligible, How to Check

Learn which campaigns can show ads in Google AI Mode, what changed on September 1, 2026, and how to measure your exposure with a simple prompt spreadsheet.

Oct 14, 2026 · 10 min read

llms.txt: Does It Help AI Visibility? A Decision Table and Tests

Does llms.txt help AI visibility? Google ignores it and 97% of files got no requests. See a decision by site type, quick tests and a starter file.

Oct 14, 2026 · 12 min read

Answer Engine Optimization: What Works and How to Prove It

AEO is mostly SEO plus measurement. See which tactics Google and OpenAI document, test crawler access in five minutes, and learn how many runs prove a change.

Oct 14, 2026 · 12 min read

AI Brand Sentiment Analysis: How Many Runs You Need

Learn how many answers per engine AI sentiment readings need, with a spreadsheet log, labeling rubric, noise test and triage table for bad brand framing.

Oct 14, 2026 · 11 min read

Prompt Research: How to Choose AI Prompts Worth Tracking

Learn how to pick buyer questions to track in AI answers: where to find candidates, a four-test scoring rule, how many runs to trust and how many slots to plan for.

Oct 14, 2026 · 9 min read

AI Content Brief: A Template, a Prompt and a Cost Check

Get an AI content brief template, a prompt to fill it, six checks to run before writing starts, and a cost table to decide if you need a paid tool.

Oct 14, 2026 · 10 min read

Track AI Traffic in GA4: Native Channel, Custom Group, Regex Test

Set up GA4 AI traffic reporting with Google's native AI Assistant channel, a tested custom channel group and regex, and a floor and upper estimate for AI visits.

Oct 14, 2026 · 10 min read

How Long Does SEO Take? Milestone Tests and Payback Math

SEO usually takes 4 to 12 months to pay off. See pass-or-fail tests for months 1, 3, 6 and 12, the odds a new page ranks, and how to work out payback.

Oct 14, 2026 · 9 min read

Content Gap Analysis: A Scoring Sheet and AI Citation Check

Sort every content gap as missing, thin, or uncited, score it from −3 to 9, and test AI citations with 20 buyer prompts. Includes tool costs as of October 2026.

Oct 14, 2026 · 9 min read

AI Link Building: What to Automate and What a Link Costs

Use AI to find link prospects and draft pitches, but not to create links automatically. See a prospect gate, per-link costs from vendor prices and a tracking log.

Oct 14, 2026 · 11 min read

SEO MCP Server: How to Choose One and Check Its Numbers

Choose an SEO MCP server by job, estimate costs from provider units, and run five day-one checks before you trust the SEO numbers your AI assistant reports.

Oct 10, 2026 · 11 min read

Content Refresh Strategy: A Triage Table and Test Log

Decide which old pages to update, merge, delete or leave alone, with a triage table, a real-refresh test, a pre-edit review log and a check for AI citations.

Oct 10, 2026 · 11 min read

AI-Generated Content SEO: A Pre-Publish Gate That Works

Google targets scaled, low-value pages, not AI itself. Use eight pass/fail tests before publishing AI-assisted pages, then audit indexing in Search Console at 60 days.

Oct 10, 2026 · 10 min read

Topical Authority SEO: How to Measure It and Build It

Google gives no topical authority score, but you can measure site focus, coverage and internal links. Includes an audit script, a worked example and a fix order.

Oct 10, 2026 · 10 min read

Claude SEO: Get Cited by Claude, With a 20-Prompt Test

Claude has no rankings. Allow Anthropic's search crawlers, run three access checks, then test 20 buyer prompts three times to measure how often Claude names you.

Oct 10, 2026 · 11 min read

How to Rank in Gemini: What You Can Control and Test

You can't win a position in Gemini, but you can be named. Check that Google can crawl your pages, find the sources Gemini cites, and run a weekly prompt test.

Oct 9, 2026 · 11 min read

Does Google AI Mode Need Its Own SEO?

Google AI Mode needs no special tactics beyond eligible, indexed pages. Learn how to read Search Console's AI report with click data and sort pages by action.

Oct 9, 2026 · 9 min read

Schema Markup for AI Search: What Works, With a Test to Prove It

Does schema markup help AI citations? See what Google and vendor studies show, which types to keep, a JSON-LD template, and a 60-day test for your pages.

Oct 9, 2026 · 11 min read

ChatGPT SEO: Check Crawler Access, Then Measure Recommendations

Learn how to get found in ChatGPT: allow OAI-SearchBot, test crawler access, score mentions, citations and recommendations monthly, and see what has evidence.

Oct 9, 2026 · 12 min read

GEO vs SEO: What Actually Changes, Plus a 60-Minute Test

Generative engine optimization overlaps heavily with SEO. See the three differences, the evidence from Pew and Ahrefs, and an hour-long test for your own site.

Oct 9, 2026 · 13 min read

How to Rank in Google AI Overviews: A Fan-Out Coverage Test

Learn how to get cited in Google AI Overviews: run four eligibility checks, score your page against the sub-questions Google searches, and set a baseline.

Sep 26, 2026 · 11 min read

How to Rank in Perplexity: A Reach-and-Cite Test

Check PerplexityBot can fetch your pages, run a fixed buyer-prompt panel three times each, and log citations. A decision table turns misses into tasks.

Sep 25, 2026 · 13 min read

Google Spam Update: Dates and a 28-Day Read-Out Sheet

Google's September 2026 spam update ran 13 days. Get the dates, a 28-day page-by-page comparison method, and a table that sorts traffic losses by shape.

Aug 27, 2026 · 11 min read

AEO Agency Costs and a Five-Check Test Before You Sign

What AEO agencies charge, what the fee buys, why no agency can guarantee AI citations, and five checks to run on any provider before you sign a contract.

Aug 20, 2026 · 9 min read

How PageLens.ai Works: What We Track and How to Read It

See the four-step PageLens.ai loop, the six metrics it tracks, what each plan includes and how to tell a real AI visibility change from random noise.

Aug 18, 2026 · 11 min read

ChatGPT Visibility Tracker: What to Measure and What to Pay

Learn how a ChatGPT visibility tracker should sample answers, report ranges and save raw responses, plus October 2026 prices and a seven-point vendor test.

Aug 11, 2026 · 14 min read

How to Measure AI Search Visibility: A Sampling Sheet

Measure AI search visibility with fixed prompts, a response log and honest margins of error. Learn sample sizes, free Google and Microsoft reports, and when to automate.

Aug 7, 2026 · 13 min read