Storm Brain GEO Report
AI brand visibility across marketing agency queries in San Diego, California & Los Angeles
Global Brand Share
Storm Brain visibility across target markets
radar Market Coverage
Provider SOV Heatmap
Share of voice by AI engine and market
| Engine | SD SOV | CA SOV | LA SOV |
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SOV by Agency Category
San Diego market breakdown
Citation Sources
Distribution by source type
stormbrain.com Citations
Direct citations across all AI providers
total citations
By Provider
Market Dominance Overview
Competitor Intelligence
Competitive Landscape
LLM Provider Breakdown
Top competitors by provider (SD)
Deep Metrics Comparison
Top competitor citation strategies
| # | Competitor | DA | Citations | % of Total | Strategy |
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Strategy Execution
The Self-Published Listicle Playbook
Competitors leveraging self-hosted listicle content dominate citation share. This is the single highest-impact strategy for Storm Brain to pursue across all three markets.
Citations from
Listicles
trending_up Expected SOV Uplift
Based on matching the #1 competitor's SOV in each agency category per market
Category Strength Map
SOV distribution across agency verticals
Priority Actionables
Strategic execution roadmap
Self-hosted Listicles
Create "Top 10 agencies in San Diego" style pages on stormbrain.com. Mirrors the exact strategy used by top-cited competitors.
Optimize Clutch/DesignRush
Update directory profiles with fresh case studies and reviews to increase citation pull from directory aggregators.
Pitch 3rd-party Listicles
Secure placements on external "best of" lists published by tech blogs and industry outlets.
Reddit Strategy
Build authentic presence in r/sandiego, r/webdev, and r/smallbusiness with helpful recommendations.
California / LA Expansion
Replicate the SD listicle playbook for California and Los Angeles geo-targets. Potential 4-5x growth multiplier.
Competitor Listicle Playbook
Self-published "Best Agencies" articles that LLMs cite as authoritative sources — the single most effective GEO tactic in the dataset
Dominates with 9 of the top 20 competitor URLs. Combines listicles with city-specific service pages:
Lowest DA in the competitive set, yet 4th highest citation count. Proves DA is NOT a barrier:
Key Insight
These 4 competitors generate 2,177 citations (3.3% of all) from self-published listicles alone. Storm Brain (DA 44) has higher authority than noirandblanco.com (DA 20) which gets 562 citations from just 2 blog posts. Publishing equivalent content should yield better results.
Manipulable Citation Channels
Third-party platforms where Storm Brain can influence its presence — these sources account for 25%+ of all LLM citations
verified Agency Directories — 18.9% of all citations
forum Reddit — 661 citations (1.0%)
LLMs heavily cite Reddit threads when answering agency recommendation queries. The most-cited subreddits:
The single most-cited Reddit thread — "agencies in LA doing great work" in r/advertising — was cited 138 times by LLMs. Authentic, detailed answers in these threads directly influence AI recommendations.
edit_note Third-Party Listicle Publishers — Outreach Targets
Independent sites publishing "best/top agencies" articles that LLMs cite heavily. Getting Storm Brain included in these is high-ROI:
location_on Local & Maps — 1,236 citations (1.9%)
Bing Maps (580) + Google Maps (578) + Yelp (658). Copilot specifically generates Bing Maps direction links. Google Business Profile and Bing Places optimization directly influences AI recommendations.
Source Explorer
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Top Domain Share
| URL | Citations | % of Total | Prompts | Providers | Locations | Top Contributing Prompts |
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Analysis Methodology
Prompt Generation
Prompts were generated by combining 3 dimensions to simulate the kinds of queries a potential client would type into an AI search engine when looking for an agency.
Dimension 1 — Agency Type (10 categories)
Dimension 2 — Attribute (9 values)
Award-winning
Service outcome
Industry
for startupsBudget/tier
Dimension 3 — Location (3 markets)
Example prompts
award-winning digital marketing agencies in San Diego
best web design agencies in Los Angeles
creative agencies in California that drives ROI
enterprise brand and web design agencies in California
Configuration
Providers
Google AIO
Grok
Perplexity
Gemini
ChatGPT
CopilotHow It Works
Each replicate is an independent API call to the LLM provider, capturing natural variation in responses. Metrics (SOV, coverage, position, sentiment, brand mentions, cited URLs) are aggregated across replicates per prompt-provider pair. SOV measures what percentage of all brand mentions belong to Storm Brain. Coverage measures in what percentage of queries Storm Brain is mentioned at all. Storm Brain can have high coverage (appears frequently) but lower SOV (gets fewer mentions per response than top competitors).
Prompt Explorer
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