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Cited by Copilot.

Microsoft Copilot lives inside Microsoft 365, Edge, Windows, and LinkedIn. Buyers researching during their workday are inside Microsoft's surfaces. If Copilot does not name you, the discovery moment passes you by while they switch context.

For B2B queries, Copilot weights LinkedIn-published content at roughly 3x the rate of general web content.

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What We Build for Copilot / 4

Inclusion

Entity foundations plus Bing indexation. Brands missing from Bing are invisible to Copilot.

Targeting

Workplace-context queries are different from consumer queries. We map both.

Retrieval

LinkedIn long-form content, Microsoft Learn, GitHub READMEs, and B2B trade press.

Authority

LinkedIn employee posts, company-page activity, and Microsoft-adjacent property presence.

How Copilot decides what to cite / 3

LinkedIn

Long-form posts, articles, and company-page activity. LinkedIn content surfaces in Copilot at notably higher rates than equivalent content published only on your blog.

Microsoft-adjacent properties

GitHub, MSN, Microsoft Learn, and Stack Overflow.

B2B trade publications

Industry-specific media that Bing indexes and weights highly.

Common questions about Copilot citation
Do I need a separate strategy for Bing to win in Copilot?

Some attention to Bing indexation is required, but not a separate strategy. Submitting sitemaps to Bing Webmaster Tools and ensuring crawlability addresses most gaps. The bigger lever is LinkedIn content density.

How important is LinkedIn for Copilot visibility?

Materially important. LinkedIn-published thought leadership from your team members, especially long-form posts and articles, surfaces in Copilot at notably higher rates than equivalent content on your blog.

Does Copilot work the same way across all Microsoft surfaces?

The underlying model is consistent but the retrieval context differs. Copilot in Outlook biases toward recent emails and contacts. Copilot in Edge biases toward open tabs and recently visited sites. Brand visibility moves with intent context.

Other engines we optimize for

The free audit shows your Copilot citation footprint across Microsoft 365 and LinkedIn.

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