AI citations

Find the pages AI uses as sources.

Discover which URLs are cited in answers about your brand and category. Use sources to identify missing pages, outdated information and topics needing clearer explanations.

Sources and citationsIllustrative example

Your brand · domains and citations

DomainsPagesDetail
Observed unitDomaina domain may appear more than once
InterpretationSource → answerverifiable link

A page worth revisiting

  1. Example question

    Which pages does AI use to describe my headphones?

  2. What you read

    The detail view connects the domain to the cited page and the answer referencing it. The document date helps you check whether the information reflects the current offering.

  3. The next step

    Prepare a proposal to update the product page, then repeat the check using the same questions.

An answer may cite several domains. Citation share does not measure traffic, authority or brand preference.

What you get

From reference to source.

Open the link alongside the answer and check which statement it supports. A product page, guide and external article call for different actions: update your own page or prepare a correction request.

Follow the reference. Check the content.
  1. Identify the source

    Distinguish the URL, domain and subject of the cited page, recognising copies of the same material.

  2. Read the claim

    Check which part of the answer the content supports and how current the information is.

  3. Prepare the review

    Identify your own information that needs clarification or updating. A correction does not guarantee future citations.

Inside the observed answer

Follow the searches. When the source shows them.

Some providers expose queries associated with an AI answer. Open them in the sample details to understand which searches were reported with that result, keeping them distinct from questions selected by your team.

Availability depends on the provider and collection mode. The list may be partial: it does not reconstruct all internal model searches or measure how many people made them. A source that does not expose queries and one that returns an empty list remain two distinct states.

Three states with different meanings
Source stateMeaningHow to use it
Reported queriesYou can read the list actually returned.Read the queries in the context of the answer.
Empty listThis does not establish that no searches occurred.Do not infer that no searches occurred.
Queries not exposedThe provider does not make this detail available.Consult the other available details.

Source map

See what supports the answer.

Your website, documentation, reviews and publications play different roles. A citation map helps distinguish information controlled by your company from independent voices.

The citation path connects an AI answer to the URLs exposed by the source. If you select a compatible press or social collection, you can see observations referring to the same document. This is a URL match: it does not prove that the content supports every statement, caused the answer or was used in training. Without a selected collection, only citations remain; partial or undisclosed sources do not mean that sources are absent.

Your brand’s sources

Pages and documents whose updates and accuracy your team can check directly.

Independent sources

Articles, reviews and other external material, read in context and within licence limits.

Sources to verify

Incomplete, unreachable or irrelevant references requiring a separate check.

Content and GEO

Make what matters clearer.

Use gaps in AI answers to choose which content to improve. A missing compatibility detail may suggest an FAQ; an outdated description, a product-page update.

Link each proposal to the answer and relevant page, check the information with your team and publish the change in your own tools. Then repeat the same questions: improving content does not guarantee that an engine will index it, cite it or recommend the brand.

Distinct perspectives
  1. Product specifications
  2. Conditions of use
  3. Updated references

Checking outcomes

An updated source. A fresh perspective.

After a correction, distinguish three steps: the content was changed, the change is accessible and the AI sample shows a different result.

The report should state when the change was applied and when the new collection took place. Comparisons involving different periods or models remain separate. This avoids crediting an updated page for a change that may instead reflect the question or engine.

Reading path
  1. Content changed
  2. Change accessible
  3. New AI collection

Related paths

Check your brand’s presence, compare results or choose content improvements: continue with the feature you need.

From question to action

From the question to checking the outcome: context, sources, hypotheses and action plans in the TrustInsider analytical workflow.

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Find the right answer

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