HIGH SALIENCE / ANALYSIS / 90-DAY LOG
RESEARCH ON OUR OWN BRAND · NOT CLIENT WORK
RESEARCH LOG · PUBLISHED
High Salience on Itself: A Dated 90-Day Log
High Salience on itself: this dated log tracks whether High Salience gets named in Google's AI answers, using the same method we sell. It is research on our own brand, not client work. The baseline below was read on October 8, 2026, and every later reading is added here with its date and its range, whichever way it moves.
BY BIKE HAWLEY, FOUNDER
01Baseline
The October 8, 2026 baseline for High Salience in AI answers
The October 8, 2026 baseline for High Salience in AI answers is the starting line: High Salience was not named in our 10/8 sample of 431 non-brand AI answers across 63 buyer queries, and it was not cited in any of them.
Those 431 answers were 182 desktop AI Overviews, 123 mobile AI Overviews and 126 AI Mode answers, pulled through DataForSEO for United States searches. Not named in 431 answers still leaves a 95% Wilson range of 0% to 0.9%, which is why this log reports ranges rather than single readings.
| Measure | Reading on October 8, 2026 | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Named in non-brand AI answers | Not named in our 10/8 sample of 431 answers (95% range 0% to 0.9%) | DataForSEO, 63 buyer queries, Google AI Overviews and AI Mode |
| Cited in non-brand AI answers | Not cited in the same 431 answers | Same pull |
| Google organic, non-brand | No highsalience.com page in the top 20 for any of the 63 queries | DataForSEO, desktop and mobile pulls |
| Referring domains | 3 | DataForSEO backlinks summary |
| Brand searches | Searches for "high salience" returned the psychology term; the company was described in 2 of 52 AI answers to 8 brand queries | DataForSEO, 8 brand queries |
| AI Overviews shown | 204 of 208 desktop pulls and 137 of 142 mobile pulls; AI Mode answered 142 of 142 | DataForSEO, all 71 queries |
02Method
How the 90-day log is measured: 71 queries, 7 pulls each
The 90-day log is measured with one fixed panel of 71 United States buyer queries, each pulled 3 times on Google desktop, 2 times on Google mobile and 2 times in Google AI Mode through DataForSEO.
The 71 queries fall into five groups: 24 core agency searches, 16 industry searches, 18 problem and hiring searches, 5 research searches and 8 brand searches. That is 497 planned pulls per reading; on October 8, 492 completed and 5 desktop pulls failed on DataForSEO's side.
Named means the words High Salience appear in the answer text once links and citation markers are removed. Cited means a highsalience.com page is in the answer's sources. Ranks means a highsalience.com page is in Google's top 20 for that pull.
Each reading is reported as named in k of n answers with a 95% Wilson range, never as one number, because AI answers change between pulls. A change counts only when two monthly ranges do not overlap, or when it holds for two readings running. Brand searches are reported on their own, since the words "high salience" also match the psychology term.
03Actions
What High Salience is changing during the 90 days
What High Salience is changing during the 90 days is listed here: public actions only, each dated when it goes live, so every reading can be set against what changed before it.
| Date | Action | Status |
|---|---|---|
| October 8, 2026 | Baseline reading of the 71-query panel | Done |
| On deploy | Site release: one identity sentence on the home page, the about page and the footer; a facts block on the about page; one definition of category salience; a rewritten B2B SaaS page; a clearer Brief page; this log and a sample Brief | Live |
| Ongoing | New research from the 21-category dataset, published with its data | Ongoing |
04Readings
Monthly readings of the High Salience log
Monthly readings of the High Salience log are added to this table as they come in, each with the same 71 queries, the same seven pulls per query and its own ranges.
| Reading | Date | Named in non-brand AI answers | Cited in non-brand AI answers | Non-brand queries with a top-20 page | Referring domains |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Baseline | October 8, 2026 | Not named in 431 answers (95% range 0% to 0.9%) | Not cited in 431 answers | None of 63 | 3 |
Next reading: November 2, 2026.