METHODOLOGY / MEASUREMENT CONTROL

Define the measure first.

Reusable definitions for citation, entity consistency, recommendation readiness and evidence-led case studies.

01 / v1.0.0 / published definition

GEO citation share

The share of answers in a fixed, versioned prompt sample that cite a monitored entity, page or domain as a source.

promptmodelsurfacemarketlanguagecollectionDateaccountStatecitedUrlclassification
Not a universal rank, sentiment score, conversion measure or guarantee of future citation.
02 / v1.0.0 / methodology scaffold

Entity consistency review

A review of whether first-party pages, structured data and public machine interfaces identify the same people, organisations, roles and relationships.

entityIdcanonicalUrlclaimfirstPartySourcemachineSourcereviewDate
Consistency does not establish third-party authority or endorsement.
03 / v1.0.0 / methodology scaffold

Recommendation readiness

A documented assessment of crawl access, evidence quality, entity clarity, source attribution and answerability without predicting a platform outcome.

accessevidenceentityattributionlimitations
Readiness is not recommendation probability and cannot guarantee retrieval, citation or selection.
04 / v1.0.0 / published framework

Case-study measurement framework

A before-and-after evidence protocol that separates verified observations from client-provided context and unavailable data.

baselineDateinterventionobservationWindowsourceverifiedOutcomeunavailableMetrics
No metric is published without a traceable source, time window and disclosure of unavailable evidence.