Overview
GEO is a black-box optimization framework designed to improve how content is cited and surfaced by Generative Engines (LLM-powered “generative engines”). It introduces GE-specific visibility/impression metrics and practical optimization strategies for content creators. The GEO-BENCH benchmark includes 10,000 queries (split into 8,000 training, 1,000 validation, 1,000 test) where each query is paired with five cleaned source documents and annotated with 50+ domain tags to enable targeted evaluation. Reported results indicate empirical visibility gains up to about 40% in certain settings, with larger relative improvements for lower-ranked sites and domain-specific optimizations. The work invites community participation through a public leaderboard hosted on Hugging Face Spaces and provides a reproducible workflow via a GitHub repository with setup instructions (conda environment example, pip install -r requirements.txt) and guidance for adding custom GEO functions (src/geo_functions.py). Related resources include the arXiv paper (abs and PDF), the GEO-BENCH dataset page on Hugging Face, and references in ACM/KDD proceedings.
Key Features
Black-box optimization framework
Introduces GEO as a black-box optimization framework to improve how content is cited/surfaced by generative search engines.
GE-specific metrics
Proposes visibility/impression metrics tailored to Generative Engines (GEs).
GEO-BENCH benchmark
Benchmark of 10,000 queries with 8K train, 1K validation, 1K test, each with five cleaned source documents and 50+ tags.
Empirical improvements
Reports improvements up to ~40% visibility gains in certain settings, particularly for lower-ranked sites and domain-specific interventions.
Public leaderboard
Calls for community participation via a public leaderboard hosted via Hugging Face Spaces to track methods and progress.
Reproducible workflow
GitHub repo with setup instructions (conda env, pip install -r requirements.txt) and guidance for adding custom GEO functions.


Who Can Use This Tool?
- Researchers:Assess GEO framework and GEO-BENCH setup and results
- Content creators:Understand GEO strategies to improve content visibility
- Developers:Reproduce GEO experiments and run GEO code locally
Pricing Plans
Pricing information is not available yet.
Pros & Cons
✓ Pros
- ✓Substantial visibility gains reported (up to ~40%) in certain experiments
- ✓Standardized evaluation via GEO-BENCH
- ✓Public leaderboard to encourage replication and progress
- ✓Reproducible workflow with concrete setup instructions
✗ Cons
- ✗Gains vary by domain and baseline rank
- ✗Not a finished product; pricing not provided
- ✗Requires access to datasets and code for reproduction
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