{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"The GEO Show","title":"LinkedIn and YouTube Dominate Social GEO Citations","html":"<iframe width=\"100%\" height=\"180\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\" seamless src=\"https://share.transistor.fm/e/ad7d6095\"></iframe>","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":3204,"description":"Welcome to episode 33 of The GEO Show, the briefing on generative engine optimization, LLM citations, and AI search visibility. Brought to you by GEOforge.\nIn this episode, Paris Childress, founder of Hop AI and co-founder of GEOforge, debates social media's influence on GEO with co-host Simon Young of Stitch. Live SiteForge filters show LinkedIn and YouTube dominating social citations while Facebook, Instagram, and X lag, and ChatGPT versus Google AI Overviews still share almost zero overlapping citations.\n\nIn this episode:\n\n🔎 Does social media influence GEO?\nSimon opens skeptical: no hard proof yet. Paris notes LinkedIn articles already appearing as citations. They open SiteForge Discovery on GEOforge's ~33,000 citation sources to test the question live.\n\n💼 LinkedIn: ~1,200 citation sources, mostly Pulse\nFilter to LinkedIn: ~1,198 unique pages. Vast majority are Pulse articles. That is why GEOforge Daily ships as LinkedIn articles: inbox reach plus citation surface.\n\n📝 LinkedIn posts cite too\nPosts are fewer than articles but still significant. Company posts (e.g. AthenaHQ) and personal-profile posts both appear. Paris had assumed ChatGPT could not reach posts without a logged-in feed; the data says otherwise.\n\n📊 Engagement vs citation: open study\nSimon asks whether cited posts are high-engagement influencer posts. Paris commits to an MCP analysis on the GEOforge DB: correlation between LinkedIn post engagement and citation rate, report next session.\n\n⚖️ Relevancy vs social proof\nPrimary should be exact answer to the prompt, even from obscure authors. Some social validation (likes/comments) may still be required to avoid zero-engagement spam. Working model: relevancy first, validation second.\n\n📘 Facebook: only ~76 sources\nAgainst ~1,200 LinkedIn, Facebook returns ~76. Mostly company pages (Neil Patel, Semrush, Searchable) plus public groups. Private groups are not crawlable; public groups are the only Facebook path that can feed citations.\n\n▶️ YouTube wins:...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/7cDHOTKwTPJbamMzkSU5XMeYqbfRSPk5nMQ6zhbTeaI/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9kY2Ri/MGIyZjViNzJiODc5/ZGM5MmJhYmE4NmYx/MTVhYy5wbmc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}