Citation & Source Analysis
Find the pages and domains AI engines cite in your space.
Every source each engine links to for your prompts, ranked by frequency.
The review sites, forums and publications that drive answers about you.
Prompts where competitors are cited and you are not.
Citation analysis shows which web pages AI engines link to when they answer questions in your market. Many AI answers include sources: Perplexity, Copilot, ChatGPT search and Google's AI Overviews all show where their claims come from.
Those sources are the levers. If a review site, a forum thread or a competitor's guide is cited for your most important prompts, it shapes how AI describes your category. Citation analysis tells you which pages those are, so you can improve your own or earn a place on theirs.
AI engines cite pages they can quote: clear sections of the right size, specific claims, named authors, dates and sources. Run any page through this audit to see how citable it is and which passages an engine would most likely lift.
Every cited URL is extracted from every tracked answer.
Sources are grouped as your site, competitors, reviews, media, forums or reference sites.
URLs are ranked by how often they're cited across prompts and engines.
Prompts where competitors are cited and you aren't become your to-do list.
The exact pages each engine cites most for your prompts.
Which of your URLs earn citations, and for which questions.
The review, media and community sites that shape answers about you.
Prompts where a competitor is a source and you're absent.
Each engine favors different sources; see them side by side.
Publications and lists worth pitching, ranked by how often AI cites them.
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A mention names your brand in the answer. A citation links to a source page. We track both separately, because you can be mentioned without being cited, and the reverse.
AI engines often cite review sites, forums and publications. If those sources describe you well, AI answers usually do too.
Yes. Citation analysis lists your cited URLs, how often each appears, and for which prompts and engines.
Write sections that answer one question each in 40 to 300 words, lead with the answer, use specific numbers and names, cite your sources and show authors and dates. Then earn mentions on the third-party sites AI already cites.
It splits a page into sections and checks their size, how many sentences contain specific facts, outbound sources, question headings, author, dates and content schema. It also shows the passages an AI engine is most likely to quote.
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