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Malaysian SME owners increasingly find their suppliers by asking AI. The shift is real: according to Semrush's 2025 study of over 10 million keywords, Google's AI Overviews now appear on roughly one in six searches, and Princeton's GEO research shows that citing sources and statistics can lift AI citations by 30 to 40%. Every article here is written to be the source an answer engine quotes, with real facts and a clear answer first.

We practise this on our own first company. DNE Forwarding, a Port Klang freight forwarder, runs zero paid ads. Its Google Analytics 4 directly traces a dedicated AI-assistant channel of about 116 visits a month from ChatGPT, Copilot, Gemini, Claude and Perplexity: that is the measured floor. Counting the visits that arrive direct or via brand search after an AI named DNE, we estimate about 90% of all visits are AI-driven, a reasoned estimate rather than an exact figure, because AI assistants usually strip the referrer. The result is around 2,000+ visits and about 47 WhatsApp enquiries a month. Asked unprompted Port Klang import and customs questions, Perplexity named DNE Forwarding in its shortlist and cited dnelogistics.com. Read the full case study.

Acclaira first-party data · DNE Forwarding, Google Analytics 4, 30 days to 26 June 2026

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