Neutral
The unsegmented baseline for this industry: a buyer who simply wants trustworthy recommendations for the leading HR and payroll platforms, with no specialized use case attached. Read this view as the general-intent demand every vendor competes for by default.
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Signal correlations calculated only for domains recommended in the context of this persona's queries. These may differ from the industry-wide pattern below.
| Signal | ρ (Spearman) | R² | n | Rank Influence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Common Crawl | +0.624 | 39% | 43 | Dominant |
| Reddit Posts | +0.513 | 26.3% | 43 | Dominant |
| Search Engine Appearances | +0.480 | 23% | 19 | Dominant |
| SE Outbound Links | +0.477 | 22.8% | 41 | Dominant |
| Domain PageRank | +0.476 | 22.7% | 46 | Dominant |
| Host Backlinks | +0.462 | 21.3% | 44 | Dominant |
| Host PageRank | +0.455 | 20.7% | 48 | Dominant |
| Domain Backlinks | +0.422 | 17.8% | 44 | Dominant |
| PageRank History | +0.416 | 17.3% | 48 | Dominant |
| Reddit Comments | +0.413 | 17% | 43 | Dominant |
| Wikipedia Citations | +0.406 | 16.5% | 38 | Dominant |
| Harmonic Centrality History | +0.396 | 15.7% | 48 | Dominant |
| Avg Search Engine Rank | +0.344 | 11.8% | 19 | Dominant |
| Host Harmonic Centrality | +0.284 | 8.1% | 48 | Strong |
| Domain Harmonic Centrality | +0.275 | 7.6% | 46 | Strong |
| Best Search Engine Rank | +0.273 | 7.4% | 19 | Strong |
| Wikidata | +0.208 | 4.3% | 27 | Strong |
| Homepage Keywords | -0.160 | 2.6% | 32 | Confirmed |
Tracked domains
The 50 domains behind the "domains tracked" stat for Neutral: every domain the LLM recommendation runs surfaced for this persona's queries, ranked by the same influence-weighted recommendation score the LLM Search Visibility report uses. Appearances counts how many times models recommended the domain across all runs. PageRank and Harmonic Centrality are the domain's current 0-100 authority in the Common Crawl web graph; 0 means the domain was not found in the graph. Click a domain name for its full site profile: authority history, backlink counts, and top backlink sources.
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→LLM Search Visibility
How this industry performs across the large language models sampled in this report.
→LLM Search+Fanout Visibility
The same LLM recommendation ranking, scoped to just the web-search-augmented (fanout) runs.
→LLM Fanout Queries
The exact web searches each LLM ran while answering this segment's questions, with overlap across models.
→AI Search Visibility
AI-powered search surfaces sit between traditional search and pure LLM chat.
→Organic Search Visibility
Backlink authority and on-page signals that drive traditional organic visibility.
→Bing Search Advertisers
Top and bottom advertisers on Bing (Google has no ads in this data), ranked by rank-weighted score.
→Organic Search: Suggested Terms
Suggested search terms from Google and Bing, ranked by rank-weighted score.
→Forum Search
Domains appearing in Google forum results for this segment's queries, by rank-weighted score and appearances.
→News Search
Domains appearing in Google news results for this segment's queries, by rank-weighted score and appearances.
→Video Search
Domains appearing in Google video results for this segment's queries, by rank-weighted score and appearances.
→Short Video Search
Domains appearing in Google short-video results for this segment's queries, by rank-weighted score and appearances.
→Top Wikipedia Pages
The Wikipedia articles where this segment's topics and brands appear, plus articles with zero brand presence.
→Knowledge Graph Entities
The Wikidata entities matching this segment's topics and brands, and which brands have no entity at all.
→Top Subreddits
The communities where this segment's topics and brands get discussed, ranked by submissions and comments.
→Reddit Activity Trends
Monthly Reddit activity for this segment's topics and brands, from 2005 through mid-2026.
→Top Domains on Reddit
The websites Reddit links to and mentions alongside this segment's topics, in comments and submissions.
→Open Web Presence
Domains appearing together with this segment's topics across billions of crawled web pages.
→Top Backlink Sources
The websites linking to the most tracked domains in this segment, from the web link graph.
→Content Phrases
Top phrases LLMs associate with this industry or persona, ranked by recommendation strength.
→Persona SEO Keywords
Top SEO keyword terms LLMs associate with this persona, ranked by recommendation strength.
→Base Terms
Foundational search terms LLMs associate with this persona, ranked by recommendation strength.
→UGC Questions & FAQs
Questions people are asking, mined from forum, news, and video result titles, with the URLs each question appears on.
→Research: Award Submissions
Domains ranking for this persona's award submissions queries.
→Research: Blogs, Publishers, Newsletters
Domains ranking for this persona's blogs, publishers, newsletters queries.
→Research: Certifications
Domains ranking for this persona's certifications queries.
→Research: Conferences, Trade Shows
Domains ranking for this persona's conferences, trade shows queries.
→Research: Courses, Training
Domains ranking for this persona's courses, training queries.
→Research: Donors, Sponsors, Partnerships
Domains ranking for this persona's donors, sponsors, partnerships queries.
→Research: Experts
Domains ranking for this persona's experts queries.
→Research: Forums, Message Boards
Domains ranking for this persona's forums, message boards queries.
→Research: Glossaries
Domains ranking for this persona's glossaries queries.
→Research: Guest Posts
Domains ranking for this persona's guest posts queries.
→Research: Guides, Best Practices
Domains ranking for this persona's guides, best practices queries.
→Research: Link Directories
Domains ranking for this persona's link directories queries.
→Research: Non-profits
Domains ranking for this persona's non-profits queries.
→Research: Podcast Guests
Domains ranking for this persona's podcast guests queries.
→Research: Professional Orgs
Domains ranking for this persona's professional orgs queries.
→Research: Reports, Stats, Research
Domains ranking for this persona's reports, stats, research queries.
→Research: Speaker Proposals
Domains ranking for this persona's speaker proposals queries.
→Research: Suggested Links
Domains ranking for this persona's suggested links queries.
→Research: Tools
Domains ranking for this persona's tools queries.
→Research: Top, Best Companies
Domains ranking for this persona's top, best companies queries.
→Research: Trade Journals
Domains ranking for this persona's trade journals queries.
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