AI Citation Tracking
Measure which pages AI engines actually cite as sources in their responses.
What you can achieve
AI Citation Tracking with AEO Platform
Discover your citation footprint
AEO Platform identifies every page on your site that has been cited by any AI engine, along with the queries and contexts in which each citation occurred.
Analyse citation quality
Review which citations are high-value (primary source for commercial queries) vs incidental (one of many references). Understand what makes your cited pages successful.
Map your Citation Network
Visualise how your pages relate to competitor pages in the AI citation graph. Identify clusters where you dominate and gaps where competitors are preferred sources.
Optimise for citation growth
Follow recommendations to expand citations: improve existing cited pages, create new content for uncited query clusters, and strengthen authority signals.
Track citation trends
Monitor citation frequency over time per page, per engine, and per query category. Measure the citation impact of every content change you make.
How AEO Platform helps
AEO Platform tracks citations across all major AI engines that surface source links—Perplexity, AI Overviews, Copilot, and AI Mode—mapping which of your pages are cited, for which queries, and how frequently. The platform also detects indirect citations: instances where AI engines draw from your content without providing a visible link.
The Citation Network view shows how your pages are interconnected through AI citations—which pages are cited together, which serve as primary vs secondary sources, and how your citation footprint compares to competitors. This reveals the "authority topology" that AI engines use when selecting sources for your category.
Citation trends over time show whether your AI source authority is growing or declining. You can track the impact of content changes on citation frequency, identify pages that have lost citations (potentially due to content changes or competitor improvements), and discover new citation opportunities where your content has the authority to earn citations but currently does not.
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