How to get cited by ChatGPT, Perplexity and Google AI Overviews
Ranking earns a blue link. Getting cited puts you inside the answer — and the two are decided by different things.
What we learn building an AI search optimization platform — how answer engines choose their citations, what actually moves visibility, and the measurements worth trusting.
Ranking earns a blue link. Getting cited puts you inside the answer — and the two are decided by different things.
It reads like an error. It is actually a verdict — and the fix is almost never in your code.
Ask an engine the same question twice and you get two answers. Any metric that ignores that is measuring noise.
Reading about citation share is less useful than knowing yours. The free audit runs a question set against the major answer engines for your domain and shows which competitors are cited instead of you.