AI Citations
AI Citations (/ai-citations) tracks how leading AI assistants respond to configured prompts — whether they mention your brand, cite your site, or link to your domain.
What it is
Section titled “What it is”An optional AI citations pipeline plus scorecard and per-prompt detail panels. Manage tracked prompts manually or from LLM-generated prompt suggestions.
When to use it
Section titled “When to use it”- Measuring AI answer visibility for discovery prompts buyers ask
- Comparing brand mention rate across models
- Finding prompts where competitors appear but you do not
Step-by-step
Section titled “Step-by-step”- Open AI Citations in the sidebar (
/ai-citations). - Review Prompt suggestions — accept or dismiss AI-generated prompt ideas to add them to tracked prompts.
- If no scan has run, click Run AI citations scan.
- When complete, Refresh data for the scorecard.
- Expand per-prompt panels to read model responses and citation details.
Scorecard checks
Section titled “Scorecard checks”| Check | Meaning |
|---|---|
| Model response | API returned a usable answer |
| Brand mentioned | Configured brand appears in answer text |
| Target domain linked | Your site appears in citations or extracted links |
Reference: AI citations scorecard checks.
Prompt suggestions panel
Section titled “Prompt suggestions panel”- Loads suggested prompts from your workspace signals
- Apply adds prompts to tracking; dismiss removes suggestions
- Re-run suggestions after major site or positioning changes
- First scan requires configured API access for answer engines — failures surface as model response errors.
- Combine with Content Quality — AIO to improve citation-worthy content structure.