Abhord Quick-Start Guide (2026 Refresh)
This practical guide helps new users go from zero to measurable GEO/AEO impact. It reflects platform and ecosystem changes through January 2026—namely stronger citation behavior in major LLMs, sharper geo variance, and tighter safety filters that reward clear, well-sourced brand statements.
1) Initial setup and configuration
Goal: establish clean entities, intents, and tracking so your metrics are meaningful from day one.
- Create your workspace
- Add your brand, products, and canonical domains (marketing site, docs, help center, blog).
- Invite teammates with roles (Owner, Analyst, Editor) and set alert preferences (email/Slack).
- Define entities
- Brand and product names, common abbreviations, and known ambiguities (e.g., “Acme Pro” vs “Acme Pro+”).
- Add disambiguation rules and negative keywords to reduce false positives (e.g., exclude the homonymous musician “Acme”).
- Map URLs to each entity so Abhord can detect first‑party citations.
- Seed intents (your “survey questions”)
- Start with 15–40 high-value intents across the funnel: “what is [brand]”, “[brand] vs [competitor]”, “[category] best tools”, pricing, implementation, security, and ROI.
- Write variants that reflect how people actually ask LLMs: natural language, comparison language, and troubleshooting formats.
- Group intents into Collections (e.g., Awareness, Consideration, Support) to filter results later.
- Choose model and region coverage
- Select the LLMs and surfaces that matter to you (consumer assistants, enterprise copilots, developer