Joran Hofman
Founder, Rank Monthly
Joran Hofman founded Rank Monthly to book businesses into the lists, newsletters and posts buyers read and AI quotes, and to pay publishers every month for those spots. He has spent 10+ years in B2B SaaS marketing.
The best AI Overviews trackers for B2B in 2026
SE Ranking, Semrush and Ahrefs track Google AI Overviews by keyword inside an SEO suite. Peec AI and Otterly.AI add prompts. Nine trackers checked on their own sites, plus free ways to check.
The 10 best content marketing agencies for B2B SaaS in 2026
Omniscient Digital and Grow and Convert lead on named AI search results and a public price. Ten B2B SaaS content agencies, checked on their own sites on 1 November 2026.
The 10 best demand generation agencies for B2B SaaS in 2026
Powered by Search and TripleDart for paid plus AI search, Kalungi for a full outsourced team, Refine Labs and Directive for scale. Ten agencies checked on their own sites on 1 November 2026.
The 10 best digital PR agencies for SaaS in 2026
Crackle PR, Siege Media, uSERP and Definition lead ten digital PR and tech PR agencies for SaaS, checked on their own sites for AI answer work, results and price.
The 10 best SaaS marketing agencies in 2026 (full-service and growth)
Kalungi to hand over all of marketing, TripleDart for SEO, AI and paid in one team, Gripped for a public price. Ten SaaS agencies checked on their own sites.
ChatGPT ads: how they work, what they cost and how they differ from being named in the answer
ChatGPT ads are paid, labeled units below some answers for Free and Go users, billed per 1,000 views or per click. OpenAI says ads never change the answer itself.
G2 reviews and AI visibility: does G2 get your SaaS into ChatGPT answers?
G2 reviews help, but they are no direct line into ChatGPT. g2.com is often cited, yet review sites got 3% of AI citations in one study, lists 40%. Keep reviews honest, and get into the lists.
GEO metrics: what to measure in AI answers and how
The core GEO metrics are mention rate, citation share, AI share of voice, position, sentiment and accuracy, cited sources, AI referral traffic, prompt coverage and engine spread.
How to get cited by ChatGPT: what OpenAI says and what works for B2B SaaS
Let OAI-SearchBot crawl your site, answer the question in your first 50 words, and get named on the third-party lists, reviews and posts ChatGPT already cites. Placement is not guaranteed.
LinkedIn Thought Leader Ads vs paying a creator for a post: which fits B2B?
Thought Leader Ads let you pay LinkedIn to show a member's public post to an audience you pick. A paid creator post buys the creator's words and followers. You can also use both.
Listicle examples: 10 list articles that earn every month (and what they do well)
10 live list articles from Zapier, TechRadar, CNET, Buffer and others, with what each does well: answer first, a stated test method, best-for labels, update dates and disclosure.
Listicle pitch email templates: how to ask a "best X" list editor for a spot
Seven copyable pitch templates for asking a list editor to add, correct or test your product, or to quote a paid spot. Short, specific, disclosed, with one follow-up.
Media kit and rate card template for blogs, newsletters and LinkedIn creators
A media kit is one page with six parts: who you are, who reads you, dated numbers, what you offer, rates and how to book. Copy the free template here, no email needed.
AI visibility audit: a checklist you can run in one afternoon
Test 20 buyer prompts three times in ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, Claude and AI Overviews, log mentions and cited pages, then check crawlers, indexing, content and lists.
The best AEO tools for B2B SaaS (2026): 10 tools that help you optimize, not only track
Profound, AirOps and Writesonic do the most AEO work for you. AthenaHQ, Scrunch and Semrush add audits and prompt research. Otterly.AI starts at $29 a month. Ten tools checked live.
How much to charge for a spot in your list article (a step-by-step method)
Price a list spot from its real clicks: monthly clicks to the page, the share that goes to that position and a value per click, adjusted for buyer intent, AI citations and exclusivity.
How to sell newsletter sponsorships to B2B brands
Pick one or two ad formats, price them by CPM or a flat fee, put your numbers in a one-page media kit, pitch brands your readers already use, and label every ad clearly.
The best AI visibility and GEO tools for B2B SaaS in 2026
The best AI visibility and GEO tools: Peec AI for a public price, Profound for enterprise, AthenaHQ for wide engine lists, Otterly.AI from $29. Plus AI rank trackers and LLM SEO tools.
What GEO costs in 2026: agencies, tools and placements compared
GEO costs from $0 to over $10,000 a month. Trackers start at $29 a month, list placements at about $135 once, and the GEO agency retainers we checked from $2,500 a month.
The 10 best GEO, AEO and AI SEO agencies for B2B SaaS in 2026
Ten GEO, AEO and AI SEO agencies that get B2B SaaS brands named in ChatGPT, Perplexity and Google's AI Overviews, ranked by AI focus, named results, tracking and price.
The 10 best SaaS SEO agencies for B2B and enterprise teams in 2026
Ten SaaS and B2B SEO agencies that work on Google and AI answers, from $2,500 a month to enterprise retainers, ranked by SaaS focus, AI search work, named results and price.
- Scrunch pricing and 7 Scrunch alternatives compared (2026)
Scrunch Core is $250 a month for 125 prompts on ChatGPT, Perplexity, Google AI Overviews and Copilot. Claude and Gemini need custom Enterprise. Trakkr and AthenaHQ cover more engines; Peec AI and Otterly.AI cost less.
- Semrush AI Visibility Toolkit alternatives and pricing: 6 tools compared (2026)
Semrush's AI Visibility Toolkit costs $99 a month for 25 tracked prompts. Peec AI, Otterly.AI and Trakkr are cheaper or broader, Scrunch has more prompts, Profound targets enterprise, and Ahrefs Brand Radar is the SEO-suite rival.
- AI search statistics 2026: ChatGPT users, market share and AI Overviews
ChatGPT has 900M+ weekly users and 51.58% of AI chatbot use worldwide (October 2026). Gemini's app has 1B+ monthly users. AI assistants send 0.32% of web traffic, and AI Overviews cut clicks. Primary sources only.
- AirOps alternatives and pricing: 6 tools compared, plus AirOps vs Profound (2026)
AirOps is a content platform for AI search with no dollar price on its pricing page. AthenaHQ, Writesonic and Trakkr also create content, with public prices. Profound, Scrunch and Peec AI focus on tracking.
- Profound pricing (2026): what is public, what is custom, and the alternatives
Profound shows one public brand plan: a free 7-day trial. Enterprise is custom. For agencies, Agency Growth is $99 a month plus add-ons, with client workspaces at $399 a month each. Checked 1 November 2026.
- Rank Monthly vs AI visibility trackers: what each one does (2026)
An AI visibility tracker shows where your brand is missing in AI answers. Rank Monthly books spots in lists from publishers in its network and reports AI mentions for those placements. One measures, the other acts. They work well together.
- PartnerStack Content Marketplace vs Rank Monthly (2026)
PartnerStack's Content Marketplace sells one-off content from its partners at upfront prices, paid on proof. Rank Monthly books spots in lists, LinkedIn posts and new articles, paid monthly while live. Pick PartnerStack if you use it.
- Searchable alternatives: 6 AI visibility tools compared (2026)
Searchable Pro is $125 a month and includes ChatGPT, AI Overviews and Perplexity; other engines are paid add-ons. Trakkr includes 8 models for $100, Peec AI starts at $95, Otterly.AI at $29, and Ahrefs suits existing users.
- SEO vs GEO vs AEO: what each optimizes, how each is measured, and where third-party lists fit
SEO ranks your pages in search results. GEO gets your brand named in AI-written answers. AEO gets your content used as the direct answer. They overlap a lot, but GEO and AEO depend more on third-party pages.
- Otterly.AI alternatives: 7 AI visibility tools compared (2026)
Otterly.AI starts at $29 a month for 15 prompts, with Gemini, AI Mode and Claude as add-ons. HubSpot AEO gives 25 prompts for $50, Trakkr includes 8 models, and Ahrefs or Semrush suit existing users.
- Peec AI alternatives: 7 AI visibility tools compared (2026)
Peec AI starts at $95 a month, but self-serve plans run 3 models, keep Claude for Enterprise and list Perplexity only as a paid add-on. Trakkr and AthenaHQ include both; Otterly.AI is cheaper.
- Profound alternatives: 7 AI visibility tools compared (2026)
Profound tracks up to nine AI engines daily but shows no public price for brands. Scrunch and Peec AI publish prices, AthenaHQ covers 11 engines, Evertune samples each prompt 100 times, and Ahrefs suits SEO teams.
- Listicle placements for B2B SaaS: what they are, what they cost and how to buy them
A listicle placement is a paid spot for your product in a "best X" article. Services charge $135 to $500 per placement, mostly once; directories up to $1,200 a month. AI assistants cite these lists more than any other source.
- LLM SEO: how B2B SaaS brands get named in AI answers
LLM SEO is getting your brand named when buyers ask ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, Claude or AI Overviews which software to use. For B2B SaaS, most cited pages are lists, reviews and posts you don't own.
- How to monetize a blog with list articles: earn every month from the spots you rank
Sell what your "best X" articles already have: buyers about to decide. Combine affiliate links with paid spots priced from your real clicks, label them clearly and get paid monthly for the spots you hold.
- Listicle placement prices: what 30 sellers charge in 2026 (index)
One listicle placement paid once has a median published price of $250 (18 rate cards, $110 to $1,499). Directories rent list spots for a median $99 a month. 9 of 30 sellers say paid spots are labeled.
- Listicle placement services compared
Most listicle placement services sell one placement for a one-off fee, with the link guaranteed for 6 to 12 months. With Rank Monthly you pay monthly, only while your spot is live. Prices and terms below, checked at each company's own site.
- Noble vs Rank Monthly
Noble buys mentions for your brand in articles AI already cites, from $2,000 a month on an annual plan. With Rank Monthly you pay monthly, only while each spot is live, with publishers who connect their own data.