AI citation optimization
Tactics to earn footnotes: original facts, clear entities, crawl access, and being the page people already cite.
There is no meta tag for “please cite.” Information gain and third-party consensus do more than synonym stuffing.
If Reddit is the current footnote, your citation optimization might be a product fix plus a thread reply.
Examples
- A unique benchmark table gets copied by journalists, then by models.
- A rewritten listicle of listicles gets ignored.
Related terms
Citation share is the percent of relevant AI answers that point to your domain as a source, not just say your name.
What your page adds that wasn’t already on the SERP or in the model’s memory: a number, a method, a counterexample.
Topical authority is whether the web treats you as a serious source on a subject, not a one-off article farm.
FAQ
Does publishing more posts help? +
Only if they add facts. Volume of sameness trains models to skip you.
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