Citations

See the pages AI cites and the ones it trusts instead.

Every answer is stored with the sources behind it: the pages of yours the engines reach for, and everyone else's they reach for instead.

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Your cited pages · 30 days 86 citations of you
Answers citing you
41 / 120
34% of all answers
Your pages cited
9 URLs
Two carry 62 of them
Cited without a mention
12
Used as a source, never named
Page Citations
/guides/choosing-your-first-ultra-shoe 34
/products/speedcross-6 28
/blog/how-deep-should-your-lugs-be 17
/returns 5
Cited by ChatGPT, Perplexity, AI Overviews and AI Mode. Export CSV

Every citation, every engine

Sources are saved with the answer that used them, so a citation can always be traced to a prompt and a day.

Your pages against theirs

URL-level, both ways: which of yours gets used, and which rival page is standing in for it.

Six source categories

Social, earned, competition, owned, blog and other, so you can see whether forums or press are deciding your category.

CSV export

Whatever you have filtered to downloads as CSV, on every plan: the view you are looking at, ready for a client deck.

The basics

What is an AI citation?

A mention is your name in the answer. A citation is a source the answer was built from: the little numbered link, or the row of domains underneath.

The two come apart constantly. You can be cited without being named, which reads as a win in your analytics and does nothing for you in the answer. And you can be named from a forum thread you have never touched.

Citations are the lever: they are the part of the answer you can go and change.

One answer, three sources 21 Aug
For deep mud, the usual picks are Hoka Speedgoat1 and Salomon Speedcross2, with lug depth the deciding factor.3
1 runnersworld.com/best-trail-shoes Earned
2 reddit.com/r/trailrunning Social
3 salomon.com/blog/how-deep-should-your-lugs-be Yours
Named once, cited once, and a rival's page did the rest. 3 citations

The domains your category is decided on.

A handful of sites are behind most answers in any category. These are yours, ranked by how many answers leaned on them, and whether they mention you when they do.

What kind of source wins here

Every cited domain is classified once, so you can tell a category settled by forums from one settled by the trade press, and spend accordingly.

Citation categories Share
Social 31%
Earned 22%
Competition 15%
Owned 13%
Blog 11%
Other 8%
Forums and reviews are behind more than half of your answers.
Top source domains · 30 days 124 answers
Citation categories
Source Used in
reddit.com 38
runnersworld.com 21
hoka.com 14
salomon.com 11
irunfar.com 9
Three of your top five never mention you. That is the outreach list. 64 domains

Read the answer, then go and earn the citation.

The same citation data, sliced how you need it: threads you can reply to today, publications that feature a rival and not you, and your own pages, ranked by how much work they are doing.

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Source Used in Engines
reddit.com 38 answers 4 engines
runnersworld.com 21 answers 3 engines
hoka.com 14 answers 2 engines
salomon.com 11 answers 3 engines
irunfar.com 9 answers 2 engines
Every domain any answer leaned on, ranked by how many answers used it. Draft a reply in Opportunities

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Citation questions, answered.

What counts as a citation, and how Referenced tracks it.

What is the difference between a mention and a citation? +

A mention is your brand name appearing in the answer text. A citation is a link the engine leaned on to write it. You can be mentioned without being cited, and cited without being mentioned. The second is common and easy to miss.

Do citations send traffic? +

Sometimes. A citation is a link an engine reached for, not a guaranteed click. Whether it converts into a session is what the traffic side of Referenced measures: connect Google Analytics and Search Console and you can see AI-referral visits alongside the citations earning you the attention.

How do I get cited? +

The domains view shows exactly which sites AI already leans on in your category, and which of them mention you and which don't. The ones that never name you are the outreach shortlist. Referenced drafts the reply or pitch for each one in Opportunities.

Which engines expose their citations? +

Every engine Referenced tracks returns citations with its answers, and Referenced records every one: ChatGPT, Google AI Overviews and Perplexity on every plan, Claude, Gemini, Grok, Meta Spark and Google AI Mode as add-ons.

Can I export this? +

Yes: every citations view exports to CSV, filtered to whatever you're currently looking at, on every plan.

See which pages AI cites, before you write another one.

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