What it shows
The Citations page (/dashboard/citations) aggregates every URL that AI engines cited across your tracked prompts. Each row shows:
- The URL and its domain
- Source type classification (news, review, owned, social, forum, listicle, vendor)
- Number of times it was cited in the last 30 days
- Which prompts triggered it
- Whether your brand was mentioned in that citation's content
Source classification
AnswerixAI automatically classifies citations into seven categories:
| Type | Examples | Why it matters |
|---|---|---|
| Owned | your-domain.com, blog.your-domain.com | Pages you control — the easiest to optimize |
| News | TechCrunch, The Verge, Bloomberg | High-trust signal; one good placement = months of AEO impact |
| Review | G2, Capterra, TrustPilot, Wirecutter | AI engines weight these heavily for buying-intent prompts |
| Listicle | "Best 10 X" articles | Easy citation pickups via outreach |
| Forum | Reddit, Hacker News, Quora | Surprisingly influential for technical/B2B queries |
| Social | Twitter, LinkedIn | Lowest weight in current LLMs |
| Vendor | direct competitor sites | Indicates you're losing comparison ground |
How to use it
Find your earned-media wins
Sort by times cited descending → filter by source type: news, review, listicle. Anything in the top 20 is doing meaningful AEO work for you.
Find your defensive gaps
Filter by source type: vendor → these are competitor pages that AI engines cite when answering questions in your category. Each one is an opportunity for a counter-piece.
Identify outreach targets
Filter by source type: review, listicle → look for high-traffic articles where your brand is not mentioned. Those are direct outreach targets — ask for inclusion.
Drill-down
Click any citation row to see:
- Which exact AI responses cited it
- The prompt that triggered each citation
- Whether your brand was named in the cited page's content
Continue: AI Traffic Analytics →