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Practical analysis on AI search visibility, Generative Engine Optimization (GEO), developer marketing, and the technical proof points that help developer tools get discovered in AI-generated answers.
DevTune now shows which product AI answers credit with the qualities you want to own, and checks what those answers say about you against your own site. In testing, the check flagged 0.6% of checkable claims, about 1 in 160, as contradicting the brand.
October 2026 ChatGPT Referral Drop - Unpacked
Ben WilliamsOn October 8, 2026, ChatGPT stopped adding utm_source=chatgpt.com to the links in its answers. On October 16, the tag started coming back. We tracked the same prompts throughout. Here's what changed, and what it means for October's referral reports.
AI Search Cites Blog Posts, Not Homepages
Ben WilliamsIn DevTune’s State of AI Search for Dev Tools, blog posts are 34.3% of citation records. Landing pages are 2.6%. What that means for the pages you actually ship.
Compare free AI visibility checks, snapshot reports, trials and ongoing free plans. Learn which limits matter before paying for multi-engine tracking.
Aggregate DevTune data shows Reddit's share of ChatGPT Search citations falling from 10.89% to 0.15%, then remaining near zero through August 23.
A practical guide to generative engine optimization services for developer tool companies: docs, technical content, citations, measurement, and hiring advice.
AI Search Visibility Checkers: Free Tools, Paid Platforms, and What Dev Tool Teams Should Do About It
Ben WilliamsReview free AI visibility checkers (Semrush, Ahrefs, Ubersuggest, Indexly, amivisibleonai), the paid tool market (Profound, Otterly, Peec AI), and a four-week improvement experiment for dev tool teams.
AEO, GEO, LLM visibility, and SEO explained for developer tool companies. Which strategy matters, where they overlap, how to measure them, and what to prioritize.
How to get your developer tool recommended by AI search engines. A practical GEO playbook for SDKs, APIs, and dev tool companies.