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Findings from our internal 2025–2026 client audits and test sets. Methods and hedges shown for every claim.
Removing weak content lifted LLM citation rates more than adding new content during the first 90 days of an engagement, in three out of four engagements we measured.
Across four 2025–2026 client engagements, we tracked share of voice across an 80-query basket before and after a 90-day push. In three engagements, the negative-reduction phase (deindexing or merging the bottom 15% of URLs) accounted for the larger share of the lift.
Adding a real author byline with a link to a bio page increased perceived-authority signals across LLM probes.
On 12 service pages where we added a named-author byline plus a Person JSON-LD entry, citation appearances grew over the following 8 weeks. Pages without bylines on the same domain did not show the same lift over the same period.
Removing pronoun-led sentence openings lifted LLM citation probability on our test set by a measurable margin.
We rewrote 14 high-traffic agency pages to replace 'It usually takes…' style openings with explicit subjects ('Local SEO results usually appear…'). Citation rate across a 30-query basket on ChatGPT and Perplexity rose by roughly 18 percentage points over six weeks.
Methodology: /methodology. Underlying queries and methods available on request.