{"id":737843,"date":"2026-07-09T03:30:42","date_gmt":"2026-07-09T00:30:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/why-most-original-data-never-gets-cited\/"},"modified":"2026-07-09T03:30:42","modified_gmt":"2026-07-09T00:30:42","slug":"why-most-original-data-never-gets-cited","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/why-most-original-data-never-gets-cited\/","title":{"rendered":"Why most original data never gets cited"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_89 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6af7413f3c69b\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6af7413f3c69b\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/why-most-original-data-never-gets-cited\/#Primary_research_is_rare_but_it_earns_33x_more_AI_citations_per_page_Learn_why_benchmark_studies_outperform_other_original_data\" >Primary research is rare, but it earns 3.3x more AI citations per page. Learn why benchmark studies outperform other original data.<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/why-most-original-data-never-gets-cited\/#First-party_research_is_scarce_and_punches_above_its_weight\" >First-party research is scarce and punches above its weight<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-3\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/why-most-original-data-never-gets-cited\/#Original_research_wins_when_the_question_has_a_benchmark\" >Original research wins when the question has a benchmark<\/a><ul class='ez-toc-list-level-3' ><li class='ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-4\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/why-most-original-data-never-gets-cited\/#A_closer_look_at_the_content_that_held_44_of_the_citations\" >A closer look at the content that held 44 of the citations<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-5\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/why-most-original-data-never-gets-cited\/#Original_data_needs_a_citation-ready_package\" >Original data needs a citation-ready package<\/a><ul class='ez-toc-list-level-5' ><li class='ez-toc-heading-level-5'><ul class='ez-toc-list-level-5' ><li class='ez-toc-heading-level-5'><ul class='ez-toc-list-level-5' ><li class='ez-toc-heading-level-5'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-6\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/why-most-original-data-never-gets-cited\/#Topics_on_this_page\" >Topics on this page<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h2 class=\"subhead\" itemprop=\"alternativeHeadline\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Primary_research_is_rare_but_it_earns_33x_more_AI_citations_per_page_Learn_why_benchmark_studies_outperform_other_original_data\"><\/span>Primary research is rare, but it earns 3.3x more AI citations per page. Learn why benchmark studies outperform other original data.<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><\/p>\n<div class=\"bialty-container\">\n<p>Part 1 tackled those all-important <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.growth-memo.com\/p\/topics-matter-for-third-party-authority\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">third-party citation signals<\/a>, while Part 2 made the case for <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.growth-memo.com\/p\/why-proprietary-data-is-your-most\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">publishing original data<\/a>: It is the strongest single predictor of page originality, and the bar to earning visibility\/authority via this play is low.<\/p>\n<p>This memo has more ammo to back up your use of proprietary data in content creation.<\/p>\n<p>Publishing the number is necessary. But it\u2019s not always what gets cited. We pulled Gauge\u2019s citation data to find out what AI actually rewards when it comes to publishing first-party data, and the answer is narrower and more useful than \u201coriginal data wins.\u201d (Although original data does, in fact, win.)<\/p>\n<p>AI rewards one format almost to the exclusion of everything else: The benchmark that answers \u201cwhich is best.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/searchengineland.com\/about:blank\" width=\"480\" height=\"320\" style=\"border: 0; background: transparent\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" data-rocket-lazyload=\"fitvidscompatible\" data-lazy-src=\"https:\/\/www.growth-memo.com\/embed?transparent=1\"><\/iframe><noscript><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.growth-memo.com\/embed?transparent=1\" width=\"480\" height=\"320\" style=\"border: 0; background: transparent\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/noscript><\/p>\n<h2 id=\"firstparty-research-is-scarce-and-punches-above-its-weight\" class=\"wp-block-heading\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"First-party_research_is_scarce_and_punches_above_its_weight\"><\/span>First-party research is scarce and punches above its weight<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>We worked from Gauge\u2019s cited-URL set: 301 live pages that AI systems cited (316 unique prompts across 7 verticals), carrying 1,075 citations between them.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>After a full URL audit,<strong> only 8 of those 301 pages qualified as primary research<\/strong>, meaning the original source of the data and methodology are on the page\u2026 rather than a writeup of someone else\u2019s numbers.<\/p>\n<p>Eight pages out of 301 is 2.7% of the set. Those same 8 pages earned 90 of 1,075 citations, or 8.4% of citation volume. First-party research shows up rarely, then over-indexes 3x on citation share when it does.<\/p>\n<p>The cleaner way to see it is density.\u00a0<\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1639\" height=\"1000\" http: alt=\"Image 23\" class=\"wp-image-481678\" srcset=\"https:\/\/searchengineland.com\/wp-content\/seloads\/2026\/07\/image-23.png 1639w, https:\/\/searchengineland.com\/wp-content\/seloads\/2026\/07\/image-23-768x469.png 768w, https:\/\/searchengineland.com\/wp-content\/seloads\/2026\/07\/image-23-1536x937.png 1536w\" data-lazy-sizes=\"(max-width: 1639px) 100vw, 1639px\" src=\"https:\/\/searchengineland.com\/wp-content\/seloads\/2026\/07\/image-23.png\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1639\" height=\"1000\" src=\"https:\/\/searchengineland.com\/wp-content\/seloads\/2026\/07\/image-23.png\" alt=\"Image 23\" class=\"wp-image-481678\" srcset=\"https:\/\/searchengineland.com\/wp-content\/seloads\/2026\/07\/image-23.png 1639w, https:\/\/searchengineland.com\/wp-content\/seloads\/2026\/07\/image-23-768x469.png 768w, https:\/\/searchengineland.com\/wp-content\/seloads\/2026\/07\/image-23-1536x937.png 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1639px) 100vw, 1639px\"><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>Primary research averaged 11.3 citations per page. Everything else averaged 3.4. A primary-research page was 3.3x as citation-dense as a non-primary one.<\/p>\n<p>Primary research compounds citations.<\/p>\n<p>This is the same shape as the <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.growth-memo.com\/p\/why-proprietary-data-is-your-most\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">information gain finding discussed in Part 2<\/a>, viewed from the AI side instead of the classic 10 blue links side.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>There, original data correlated with page originality more than any other trait. Here, original data correlates with citation density. Both point the same direction: The number only you can produce is the lever.\u00a0<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"original-research-wins-when-the-question-has-a-benchmark\" class=\"wp-block-heading\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Original_research_wins_when_the_question_has_a_benchmark\"><\/span>Original research wins when the question has a benchmark<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Here\u2019s where the \u201coriginal data wins\u201d filter gets sharper.<\/p>\n<p>The 90 primary-research citations are not spread across the 8 pages evenly, and they are not spread across topics evenly.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>75 of the 90 came from one cluster: cloud data warehouse benchmarks. <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.fivetran.com\/blog\/warehouse-benchmark\">Fivetran\u2019s warehouse benchmark<\/a> alone took 44 citations, just under half of every primary-research citation in the set. (More on that below.)<\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1639\" height=\"1080\" http: alt=\"Image 24\" class=\"wp-image-481679\" srcset=\"https:\/\/searchengineland.com\/wp-content\/seloads\/2026\/07\/image-24.png 1639w, https:\/\/searchengineland.com\/wp-content\/seloads\/2026\/07\/image-24-768x506.png 768w, https:\/\/searchengineland.com\/wp-content\/seloads\/2026\/07\/image-24-1536x1012.png 1536w\" data-lazy-sizes=\"(max-width: 1639px) 100vw, 1639px\" src=\"https:\/\/searchengineland.com\/wp-content\/seloads\/2026\/07\/image-24.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1639\" height=\"1080\" src=\"https:\/\/searchengineland.com\/wp-content\/seloads\/2026\/07\/image-24.png\" alt=\"Image 24\" class=\"wp-image-481679\" srcset=\"https:\/\/searchengineland.com\/wp-content\/seloads\/2026\/07\/image-24.png 1639w, https:\/\/searchengineland.com\/wp-content\/seloads\/2026\/07\/image-24-768x506.png 768w, https:\/\/searchengineland.com\/wp-content\/seloads\/2026\/07\/image-24-1536x1012.png 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1639px) 100vw, 1639px\"><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>Reality: S<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/trip-and-travel\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"10\" title=\"Trip &amp; Travel\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">trip<\/a> the benchmark cluster out and first-party research barely registers in the citation set. The win is not \u201cwe published original data.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The win is \u201cwe published a benchmark that answers a buying comparison,\u201d and almost nobody builds one. (\u201cBenchmark\u201d meaning you measure a set of named things against each other on a specific yardstick, and publish the results as numbers.)<\/p>\n<p>Original research is most effective when it is packaged in a way that directly answers commercial comparison queries.<\/p>\n<p>This is what Google is after with non-commodity content: new and helpful information that is hard to get.<\/p>\n<p>Primary-research citations clustered where the prompt asked AI to compare options on measurable specs: speed, cost, latency, yield, or performance.<\/p>\n<p>That explains the warehouse benchmark spike. The \u201cHR Tech \/ Compensation\u201d label is noisy, but the citations inside that bucket mostly came from cloud data warehouse benchmark prompts. Fivetran, Estuary, and ClickHouse had numbers AI could use.<\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1639\" height=\"1040\" http: alt=\"Image 25\" class=\"wp-image-481681\" srcset=\"https:\/\/searchengineland.com\/wp-content\/seloads\/2026\/07\/image-25.png 1639w, https:\/\/searchengineland.com\/wp-content\/seloads\/2026\/07\/image-25-768x487.png 768w, https:\/\/searchengineland.com\/wp-content\/seloads\/2026\/07\/image-25-1536x975.png 1536w\" data-lazy-sizes=\"(max-width: 1639px) 100vw, 1639px\" src=\"https:\/\/searchengineland.com\/wp-content\/seloads\/2026\/07\/image-25.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1639\" height=\"1040\" src=\"https:\/\/searchengineland.com\/wp-content\/seloads\/2026\/07\/image-25.png\" alt=\"Image 25\" class=\"wp-image-481681\" srcset=\"https:\/\/searchengineland.com\/wp-content\/seloads\/2026\/07\/image-25.png 1639w, https:\/\/searchengineland.com\/wp-content\/seloads\/2026\/07\/image-25-768x487.png 768w, https:\/\/searchengineland.com\/wp-content\/seloads\/2026\/07\/image-25-1536x975.png 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1639px) 100vw, 1639px\"><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>Crypto \/ Solana shows the same pattern at a smaller scale. Marinade and Helius earned citations because staking and MEV questions need first-hand ecosystem data, not generic explainers.<\/p>\n<p>The pattern dis<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>ears in topics without a clear benchmark. B2B SaaS \/ CRM, Education \/ TEFL, and Product Analytics returned listicles, product pages, explainers, and case studies. After cleaning, none of those topics produced a cited primary-research page.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-a-closer-look-at-the-content-that-held-44-of-the-citations\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"A_closer_look_at_the_content_that_held_44_of_the_citations\"><\/span>A closer look at the content that held 44 of the citations<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.fivetran.com\/blog\/warehouse-benchmark\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Fivetran\u2019s warehouse benchmark<\/a> took 44 of this data set\u2019s citations on its own, and Fivetran\u2019s 2 benchmark pages together took 58 of the 90 primary-research citations in the set. Why?<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s a piece of content from 2022, but when you examine it, it\u2019s easy to see why LLMs prefer it.\u00a0<\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"557\" http: alt=\"Image 3\" class=\"wp-image-481680\" srcset=\"https:\/\/searchengineland.com\/wp-content\/seloads\/2026\/07\/image-3.jpeg 800w, https:\/\/searchengineland.com\/wp-content\/seloads\/2026\/07\/image-3-768x535.jpeg 768w\" data-lazy-sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" src=\"https:\/\/searchengineland.com\/wp-content\/seloads\/2026\/07\/image-3.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"557\" src=\"https:\/\/searchengineland.com\/wp-content\/seloads\/2026\/07\/image-3.jpeg\" alt=\"Image 3\" class=\"wp-image-481680\" srcset=\"https:\/\/searchengineland.com\/wp-content\/seloads\/2026\/07\/image-3.jpeg 800w, https:\/\/searchengineland.com\/wp-content\/seloads\/2026\/07\/image-3-768x535.jpeg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\"><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>It answers a measurable comparison head-on.<\/strong> Named warehouses, BigQuery, Redshift, Snowflake, and Databricks, ranked on speed and cost. It\u2019s entity-rich and not afraid to name all the major players.<\/li>\n<li><strong>It runs on real first-party data.<\/strong> Fivetran tested against actual customer usage rather than synthetic assumptions, and called out that choice directly.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li><strong>It shows the method, step by step.<\/strong> Trust signals. Separate sections walk through what data they queried, what queries they ran, and how they configured and tuned each warehouse. A reader (or a model) can see exactly how the numbers were produced.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li><strong>The structure is built to be lifted.<\/strong> Descriptive headings (\u201cResults,\u201d \u201cHow much did performance improve?,\u201d \u201cWhy are our results different from previous benchmarks?\u201d) let AI map a question to the one passage that answers it.<\/li>\n<li><strong>It links to its raw data and sources.<\/strong> The page footnotes its references, including the C-Store paper, and points to the underlying data, so every claim is verifiable. Not many brands put this much work into a data-backed content piece, let alone offer the full data set for transparency.<\/li>\n<li><strong>It shows its seams.<\/strong> Dated correction notes from December 2022, named qualitative limits, and an honest \u201cperformance floor\u201d caveat make the quantitative claims more credible\u2026 not less. They also note corrections.<\/li>\n<li><strong>The URL never moved.<\/strong> A 2022 page is still collecting citations in 2026 because it stayed put at one canonical address.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>The data behind a page like this is easier to pull and analyze than it has ever been. What is not easy is everything around it: the clean method, the linked sources, the corrections, the navigable structure, the willingness to name what the numbers do not prove. That\u2019s craft, and that\u2019s the moat here.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>This first-party data-focused piece isn\u2019t a sloppy press release with half-assed pulled data. It took a lot of work, and it\u2019s holding authority for 4 years out. The takeaway: AI does not reward \u201coriginal data\u201d by default. It rewards first-party research when the page provides a clear answer to a measurable comparison that signals depth of expertise and trust.<\/p>\n<p>The open opportunity here is to publish a retrievable dataset for a buyer question where AI currently has no clean benchmark source. This maps onto the <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.growth-memo.com\/p\/query-fan-out\">unanswered-questions finding<\/a> from Part 2: the open door exists, and in these verticals nobody has walked through it with a real dataset.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"original-data-needs-a-citationready-package\" class=\"wp-block-heading\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Original_data_needs_a_citation-ready_package\"><\/span>Original data needs a citation-ready package<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Original data gives a page something AI cannot get from another explainer. But AI still has to retrieve it, parse it, and map it to the question.<\/p>\n<p>That is where many brands lose the citation. They publish proprietary numbers, but bury them in narrative, gate them behind forms, move the URL, or skip the methodology. The data exists. The citation does not.<\/p>\n<p>The pages that won in this dataset had both: original numbers and a clean citation shape. Stable URL. Clear method. Named comparison. Results that answered a buyer question directly.<\/p>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Who wins: Brands sitting on proprietary product, usage, or pricing data who package it into a comparison a buyer can act on, one that informs LLM outputs for recommendations.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>Who loses: Brands publishing original numbers buried in narrative, on slow or unstable pages, with no comparison frame for AI to lift.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>A citation-ready research page has four parts:<\/p>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Lead with the comparison result.<\/strong> The headline finding (\u201cX is fastest, Y is cheapest at scale\u201d) goes in the first 30% of the page. Result, then method, then nuance.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Box the methodology.<\/strong> Sample, time window, what was measured, how. Attribution confidence is part of what makes a number citable. Make your methodology clear on the page.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Explicitly frame it as a comparison if it is one.<\/strong> AI reaches for benchmarks on \u201cwhich is best\u201d prompts. A table that compares named options on named specs is the shape it lifts.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Keep the URL stable. <\/strong>One canonical page, kept live, not migrated or renamed every redesign. The citation you earn this quarter only compounds if the page is still there next quarter. Of 365 cited URLs in this data set, 64 were dead, redirected, or otherwise broken, taking 203 citations down with them.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>This is the work behind a citable benchmark, and it is more involved than it looks.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>HockeyStack documented its own version in a <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hockeystack.com\/resources\/playbook\/how-to-launch-research-reports\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">playbook on launching research reports<\/a>: they published 18 original reports built entirely on anonymized first-party customer data, the kind no competitor could replicate. <\/p>\n<p>Their process names every step the Fivetran page demonstrates: list the data points you need, get a teammate to pull them with SQL, define and document the method so the numbers hold up to scrutiny, then structure the report around a real ICP question. They call methodology non-negotiable for a reason, noting that without it, someone will always dispute your data.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>With AI analysis, the data is the easy part now. Building the content into something that is citable, demonstrates E-E-A-T, and is still earning visibility 4 years out for commercial queries is where the hard work lies.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What sites are already trusted for your topic? <\/strong>When a benchmark you did not publish is taking the citations in your category, the <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.growth-memo.com\/i\/202107502\/premium-citation-source-mapper-tool-build-your-targeted-off-site-authority\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Citation Source Mapper<\/a> maps that trusted set into a ranked, pitchable target list. It is in the <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.growth-memo.com\/p\/exclusive-growth-premium-resources\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">premium library<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em>This post first appeared on the author\u2019s website and is republished here with permission.<\/em><\/p>\n<div class=\"ttd-topics-display\">\n<div class=\"ttd-topics-content\">\n<h5><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Topics_on_this_page\"><\/span>Topics on this page<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h5>\n<div class=\"ttd-topics-links\">Cessna Citation familyArtificial intelligenceFivetranGoogleHockeyStackBenchmarkingBigQueryContent MarketingCryptocurrencyData journalismLarge language modelSearch engine optimizationSoftware as a service<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"ttd-topics-show-extra-button\">+8 more<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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