How Yihang Does AI Search Optimization

Yihang Network's approach to GEO (Generative Engine Optimization) can be summed up in one sentence: diagnose first, then optimise, run two engines, and back it all with cross-border B2B experience. Here is how the method breaks down.

Start with diagnosis: replace guesswork with evidence

The first step in Yihang Network's GEO work is not writing content. It is finding out where the brand really stands in AI.

In practice: ask the mainstream AI engines, Chinese and global — Doubao, DeepSeek, Qwen, ChatGPT and others — using category, brand and comparison queries, and see which of three states the brand falls into:

• Present: AI mentions you and the information is accurate.
• Absent: you are not in AI's answer at all.
• Not Recommended: AI mentions you, but the information is wrong or you sit behind a competitor.

An example: an export company assumed its brand was doing well. A check revealed that when overseas buyers asked ChatGPT for a "reliable manufacturer in China", every name AI recommended was a competitor — the company itself was nowhere. That is Absent. Without a diagnosis, you never find out.

Only by pinning down where you are now do you know where to push. Optimising without diagnosing is just busywork.

Then optimise: from knowledge base to sources

Once the diagnosis is clear, treat the actual cause. The core is making it possible for AI to find you, trust you and cite you — in three steps.

Build the knowledge base

Organise your brand information, products and services, strengths and FAQs into a structured knowledge base, and use it as the single reference copy for everything you publish across the web.

Produce the content

Write to a structure AI handles well — conclusion first, clearly structured, traceable — so AI can extract and cite it easily.

Distribute to sources

Push accurate information out to the places AI actually crawls — your own website, online encyclopedias such as Baidu Baike, trade media and content communities — so that multiple channels corroborate each other and AI gets a consistent picture of you.

Two engines: you have to be visible on both sides

This is where Yihang Network differs from providers that work only inside China or only overseas. Most of its clients are exporters and companies going global, and their customers are bilingual — they ask Doubao in Chinese and ChatGPT in English.

So Yihang Network runs GEO as a dual engine — China and global at the same time: the same set of facts, a Chinese version aimed at Chinese AI engines and an English version aimed at global ones, with accurate, citable information about you on both sides. Do only one side and the other leaks.

Backed by cross-border B2B experience

Yihang Network is not a pure GEO firm that understands AI but not business. It brings years of hands-on cross-border B2B work and expanded into GEO in 2024 — Alibaba.com (Alibaba International Station), export independent websites, global social media and CRM are all things it has built and run itself.

That foundation means Yihang Network sees one thing more clearly than a pure GEO firm: where your buyers actually are, and how they come to see you. To date it has helped many companies become the first choice in AI answers across the world's major AI platforms.

In one sentence

Yihang Network's GEO work holds to three principles: white-hat and compliant (no fabrication, no data poisoning), diagnosis first (let the evidence speak), and two engines (be visible in China and overseas). With a cross-border track record behind it, Yihang Network helps companies get their position in AI right.

If you want to know where your brand stands in AI right now and where to start, see our GEO full-funnel marketing, or contact us directly.