Source citation
The habit of pointing at URLs. Product-dependent. When it’s on, it’s your traffic and your accountability.
Fight for accurate URLs. A citation to a 404 is a wasted win.
Redirect maps are GEO now.
Examples
- You get cited. The URL 301s twice to a homepage. User bounces. Fix the hops.
Related terms
The preferred URL when duplicates exist. AI crawlers also waste budget on copies and may cite the ugly one.
How often a specific URL — not just the domain — appears as a citation.
The footnotes models show. Density varies wildly by product. Treat them as a different currency per engine.
FAQ
No-citation engines? +
Track mentions anyway. Push for URLs with better public pages and third-party echoes.
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