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# Citation Tracker

> Measure and track brand/content citations across 5 AI search engines (ChatGPT, Claude.ai…

Measures and tracks whether your brand and content get cited across 5 AI search engines (ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, Google AI Overviews, Gemini). It combines three measurement layers: proactive prompt batch testing, analytics referrer attribution, and weekly drift detection, so 'we show up in AI' becomes a concrete, trackable KPI instead of a guess. This is the measurement layer that proves whether your AEO investments actually paid off.

## Use cases
- Verifying AI bot pickup 7-14 days after a content or blog launch
- Baselining AI visibility across multiple languages before an optimization sprint
- Tracking citation rate as a real KPI in monthly client reports
- Investigating a sudden drop in AI citations and finding the root cause
- Benchmarking share of AI voice against competitors mentioned in answers
- Identifying which exact pages and queries trigger AI citations

## Benefits
- Turn vague 'AI presence' claims into a measurable citation rate KPI
- Catch citation drops early with weekly drift alarms before traffic suffers
- Avoid single-source blind spots by triangulating three measurement methods
- Start with free baseline tools and only scale spend once ROI is proven

## What’s included
- 5-engine tracking matrix with per-engine extraction patterns and referrer signatures
- A structured citation event schema (engine, query, mention count, sentiment, source URL, position)
- Free-tier baseline scoring plus self-hosted batch automation with rate-limit handling
- Analytics referrer attribution to tie AI sessions to real conversions (citation funnel)
- Weekly drift detection cron with email alarm and a root-cause checklist
- Sentiment polarity and share-of-AI-voice scoring with competitor co-occurrence

## Who it’s for
SEO and AEO specialists, content teams, and agencies who need to prove and monitor whether AI search engines actually cite their brand.

## How it runs
Do AI engines actually cite you, or does it just feel that way? A versioned 50-query batch across five engines, cross-checked against GA4 referrals, replaces the feeling with weekly numbers and alarms.
1. Runs a versioned prompt batch (50 queries per language) against the 5 engines, ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, Gemini and Google AI Overviews, and records whether your domain appears in each answer.
2. Logs every hit as a structured citation event: engine, query, mention count, position in the answer, source URL, a sentiment score for the surrounding context, and which competitors were mentioned alongside you.
3. Cross-checks the proactive tests against reality in GA4: sessions and conversions arriving with chatgpt.com, perplexity.ai and claude.ai referrers, so a citation that never gets clicked is exposed as a vanity metric.
4. Computes the KPIs: citation rate (cited queries over total queries), share of AI voice (your mentions over all brand mentions in the answers) and sentiment polarity, because being cited negatively is worse than not being cited.
5. Compares each week against the previous baseline; a drop past the threshold fires an alarm email with a root-cause checklist: llms.txt drift, crawler allowlist regression, content removed, or the engine's index simply lagging.
6. Starts from the free HubSpot AI Search Grader baseline and self-hosted batch before any paid enterprise tooling enters the picture; the upgrade only happens after the ROI is proven.

## FAQ
### How does it actually check whether ChatGPT or Perplexity cited me?
It runs batches of real prompts against the five engines and records whether your brand and pages come back as a source. Alongside that it reads referrer data, so a visit arriving from an AI engine is attributed rather than guessed.

### AI answers shift every time you ask, so isn't a single check just noise?
That is why it runs repeated prompt batches and a weekly drift check instead of one snapshot, so you see a citation rate and its trend rather than a lucky hit. A one-off mention and a stable pattern look different on purpose.

### Does it get me cited, or only tell me whether I am?
It measures and tracks citation, it does not rewrite content to win the citation. Use it to baseline and prove pickup, then the optimization work happens in your content, not the tracker.

## Price
$15, one-time, no subscription. VAT included.

Related guide: [How to automate SEO and AEO with Claude](https://forgehouse.ai/guides/automate-seo-claude/)